Two Foot Long Carp Caught on Corn

Winter's a tough time of year for fishermen.  Fish feeding slows WAY down because the fish are cold.  They're not spawning.  Basically the fish are going to exert minimal energy to eat enough to sustain them.  So bites are few and far between.

To succeed, the bait has to be something that's very aromatic and very oily.  In this case, I used corn.  It paid off to the tune of 7.61 pounds of carp!

The carp below weighed in right at 3 pounds.

Below is today's prize catch.  Its weight was good at 4.61 lbs.

That guy put up one heck of a fight, let me tell ya!!  If he looks long, it's because he is!  Below is a picture of him with the net I used to land him.  You can see that he's almost as long as the net handle!

The total official length was 22 3/4 inches!  I'm invoking the fisherman's exaggeration privilege to round up to 24 inches, which is two feet.