The day he goes for 2 or 3 big fish are about gone. Let me try and explained this. See back in the old days of Pay-Lakein there were fisherman that just went to get the big carp. Now I know that every carp fishermen out goes for that but these fishermen were different. It was not just the spot they were in, there were there with baits and plains to get just that the biggest fish in the lake. Even if it meant losing that night that was what they were there for. They were willing to give it all up just to have that one chance at that big boy of the lake. These fishermen were not there by luck they were there by watching the lake and the other fishermen and were the big fish came from. It took getting all this to gather and making a plain to get that biggest carp in the whole darn Lake that everyone of the other carpers wanted. It was the big carp that was braking all the lines when hook. The one that seem to find a way to get off no matter what it took are how close to the bank that a fishermen had got him. The boy that was strong enough to break them there rods into are tear a reel up. This was the fish that these fishermen fish for and wanted. Fishermen like Rick Cheek, Joe Powell, Nub, Wesley, Bill Carpenter, George Smith, Herman Carriker and HL, Butch Tomlin. (Who is fishing the Big Lake, but never Forgotten) and Wallace Hilton. These fishermen were just some of the real pioneers of Pay-Lakein in the sport that we all do and love today. These are a few of the ones that I wrote this book for. There was an art to doing this. That is what I'm talking about that is so near to being gone that it is a big lost. After you had done the above then you had to put it all together. Decide were to fish and at what time that you were going to get that chance at him. If you have all the cards right you would probably get a chance at a couple of other good carp all so. They seem to kindly hole together but by their self. Why? I can't tell you the only thing that I would even say and it's just a guest at it. Is that it's kindly like the deer you know, that they hang together but they do it in a packing order. That would be my guest whit the big carp. Back then this might take a couple of weeks even could take up to a month or more. You wanted to chum to get it ready and find the bait that the big fish wanted. Usably it would be something that wasn't even near what everybody else was using to catch the fish on. For most of the time they would be using sweet bait and I found that the real big carp would stay away from them most of the time. I guest that is why that they were so hard to get. When you finely came up with the bait that you believe in it is time to get down to what you was going to be doing. That meant that these places that you have been chumming for the two weeks to a month or so now it was time to fish then for the first time. So you had to get there early the day that you were going to do this. For it would take all day to get it ready for the thing that you were going to do. This for me and some other was fish the bank of a corner mostly. The way that I look at it was that they were coming trough there sooner or later. Because you know that they swim the lake. The notes tell you so that you got watching what had gone on around you before. While everybody was busy baiting up and getting ready. I would be getting a few cups of some old pack baits that had been kept for a month or so in a big bucket out side behind the out building at the house. This would be the baits that you were using till you got the right one. I would put them in the water bucket and let it set a little while. Get the reels baited and in the water and then change the water in the bucket by dumping right at the end reel. You would see the water change color as it went in. Then see the cloud going through the water and away from the bank. I would do one for all three of them. Then set around mixing my pack bait and trumping corn in all out in front of the rods. Take a slice of bread and tier some off squeeze in tight squares and trump them in front of the rods. This I would do off and on for a couple of hours and then off a couple just to do it all over agene. Not to fish it at all till the time was right. This is really hard at times to do. When you see big swirls coming from out under your rods. Then see a couple of big tails coming out of the water. A big head come up from under the end rod and look at you like saying here I am come and get me. It's hard to keep from putting those reels in there. So you keep going 15 feet past were all this stuff is going down right in front of you. But you know that the time is not right it and want be for another 6 hours. Just to have it all go away in a few minutes. Then you take a deep breath and smile to your self and say I will get you tonight. Thanks for coming by and letting me know that you are there. While you are in this thought your end reel stands up and the line is pulling off like crazy. You reach down and set the hook and you know that you have just got a good fish. You ask the Lord to not let it be the one that you want that night. Then you get a look and it's just a 17 or 18 for the day. Then you thank the Lord and go back to the way that you started that morning doing the same thing over for the night getting everything right for that show down you know is coming then between 11 that night and 7 in the next morning. It's not really the money that makes this fishermen wait it's the walk that he wants to take when the lake is full. You are carrying the net with the fish that every one of them carpers is wanting. Just to say tonight to be the man then you have got to beat the man. As you walk by with this fish they are saying great job but the look in the eyes says something else. Just is noting like that feeling at that time for at that time you are the man to beat. These days it is a lot different now. The money has got to be so much that it cost to fish now that you have got to go for anything at all that you can get. You have too tried and get some of the money back with what it cost today to fish. You won't be in it long at all if you don't. That is the thing that is making this art about to be lost for ever. JustCarp'N Paul Daniel Collins |
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