winter league warm up match....usa

[matchanglingndausa]

hi guys
we had our winter league warm up match here last sun before our winter league starts...we fished the chicago river here in the city and is mostly for carp from 3 lbs to 25 lbs... ...,catfish,some roach and bluegills..only 6 anglers yesterday...its a start anyway.. but was great fishing... ;D....temps in the 50's(Farenht) and a little rain in the first hour...we had snow 2 days before sun...the river itself is between 5 and 8 ft deep and needs 4 to 8 grm floats to fish it at 6 to 13 mts...the feeder also fishes well...our matches are only 3 hours for the winter here ...it can be cold......
heres the results and i will keep you inform for the rest of the matches over the next few months
1st Mirek ? peg 1.....67 lbs 14ozs....(7 fish)...on the feeder
2nd Paul Pezalla peg 3 ...32 lbs 5 ozs(2 fish ,one 21 lbs 10 ozs....feeder
3rd Bob Andrews peg 2... 6 lbs 8 ozs(1 fish)....long rod and float
section B
1st Dara F peg 4...60 lbs 14 ozs(7 fish)...1 on the feeder and the rest on the pole
2nd Max F peg 6 ...49 lbs 12 ozs(6 fish)...pole and feeder
3rd Paul Wells peg 5...32lbs(5 fish)....pole and feeder

alot of fish were lost too the 3 anglers in section B lost 22 between them.. ... and was the same in section A...
some pics too
photobucket.com/albums/d136/irishangler/bloomingdale/chicago%20winter%20league%20warm%20up%20match/

[Kingfisher]

Great threads mate. Some club matches over here only attract 6 anglers in the Winter.Smashing looking carp in your photos. 28 anglers fished our club match at the weekend (Match Results - Birmingham Civil Service)and not 1 carp was caught!Mind you it was hovering on freezing!

[MARTYNH]

i wouldnt mind tryin that river! what sort of poles do you use for those beasts? what baits you catch on?

[matchanglingndausa]

hi Martynh
i use a black magic mark 2 most of the time with a preston 16 solid elastic or the fox heavy(blue)elastic in it...i also use an old shimano areo sometimes too with some red hydro in it but it takes forever to land the fish on it...i have 2 daiwa poles but daren't use them on theses submarines here...some of the swims have sunken branches and snags in them...we still only usally land 1/2 the fish we hook...they are all wild fish and really take off in the fast water.. .... most times now its hook pulls as i have beefed up my mainlines and hooklenghts and loosened my elastics a little...and am just waiting for some 18 and 20 elastic i have ordered from the uk to give it a go....it should be easy to get 100lb nets there (about 12 fish) in 3 hours if we could land most of the fish we hook... ... that last match i only had 2 smallish carp in the net going into the last 50 mins and had a hectic end to the match..corn or red maggot is what i usally catch on althou they will take anything bread,worm,pastes....these are really wildfish and dont receive much angling presure here at all.......

[Gary]

Hi ya mate, what times the draw! ;D

[CJA]

have to have a TA hoilday knock up out there

[matchanglingndausa]

hi guys
heres our list of dates for the winter althou we will prob be moving some around....severe weather... ....but a group of us from different clubs are working together here this winter to try and organise a full match calender for next year ...we usally dont start our leagues here till mid march till nov...will keep you posted on it...maybe a team challenge in the future sometime... ...
12/11/05 leg 1 TBA draw 9 am ......fish 10:30 till 1:45
1/15/06 leg 2 TBA draw 9 am........fish 10:30 till 1:45
1/29/06 leg 3 TBA draw 9 am .....fish 10 30 till 1 45
2/12/06 leg 4 TBA draw 9 am ...fish 10 30 till 1 45
2/26/06 leg 5 TBA draw 9 am .....fish 10 30 till 1 45

[alfie]

I live in Massachussetts and we have a river near us with monsters like that.......one day after work I went for a couple hours and had 4 carp for 100lb.....I wouldn't dare use a pole on our river because they are so powerfull it is unreal......most of them have never seen a hook and nobody fishes for them.....people over here treat them as junkfish.......one thing I noticed is that I have never caught a mirror carp on the river just commons

[matchanglingndausa]

hi alfie
i use to live in boston for a few yrs before i moved to chicago....there is some great fishing to be had there too...i didnt have all my match gear there when i lived there as there was no clubs or matches going on there so i never pole fished there but the fishing on the charles river was unbelieveable... ....i had a lot of 100lbs plus there with just a few fish also mostly on the feeder but had a few on the waggler too....i had a few mirrors out of it...there are also large shoals of rudd there with fish up to 2 1/2 lbs,bluegills,roach,catfish,perch, and suckers too...also the mystic river is good too and has alot of roach in it....there are going to be some open matches organised here this year in a few different places in the usa....north carolina,chicago,ohio...plus a few more...there should be a full calender of events ready by the end of jan here thru the newly formed AMFA(american match fishing assoc..)
also check out the following link....they have a sec for mass. there too....
www.carpanglersgroup.com/forum/index.php?s=1b8b2a757701279255efddb3c72cf55e