The carp has been a subliminal influence on me since I was a child, when I would stare through my mothers glass display cabinet at the figurines depicting a battle between a young boy and a leaping gargantuan carp. This and other tales of carp lore have played a role in developing my fish psyche whoa. Strangely enough, I dont pursue carp that often, having just discovered the joys of purposely pursuing them over the past few years. I prefer the artificial lure modus operandi instead Im too hyper. However, I am trying to hook into a reel screecher 20 lb.+ from my suburban shallow lake. The lake is over 20 years old with carp, channel cats, bass, sunnies and pike. Theres GOT to be some porker carp in there, besides the 2 to 10 pounders Ive seen. If anybody has any tips, Id appreciate a note. I have rediscovered the joy of the slower methods of bait fishing as well as finessing small jigs, etc. The making of ink impressions from real fish Gyotaku was one of my earliest introductions to fish art. The resulting fossillike images stirred my imagination, as I knew the print was from a real fish, yet the image was ghostly, like a death mask, but still alive. I had created two prints, one of a carp and the other a largemouth bass, converted them into silk screens, and introduced my first two tshirt designs. I always liked drawing fish as a kid, and now I focus my graphics and cartooning skills to my favorite subject, FISH. The name Carpe Carpio is a twisted Latin version of seize the carp, where carpe means seize, and carpio is part of the species name for carp cyprinus carpio. As a fisherman, I dont have a favorite species, as I appreciate the different methods used and varying temperaments of all fish. The biggest fish Ive caught was a 50+ pound lake sturgeon on a gob of nightcrawlers, a sort of ignominous use of my favorite musky outfit. The biggest THING Ive hooked into was a 200 pound+ sea lion that nearly spooled me, off the coast of San Diego in a party boat. The best tasting fish Ive had was grilled whitefish, jigged up from 40 feet of water in Canada. The worst experience Ive had was turning green and blowing cookies in a party boat on a rocking and rolling sea off the coast of Long Island.

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