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When fishing the Ohio near Evansville for the first time, I noticed that the south side of the dam has somewhat of an offset and caused a deep hole to develop. You could see the signs of asian carp in abundance there. I was fishing for skip the first time I was there using a small white curly tail jig. I made a long cast and retrieved the jig with a sharp junking action. About half way back, something grabbed it and really took off. After about 4 or 5 runs I got it close to the boat and the surface. It was a tail hooked asian carp. I babied it in and got a net under it. That was a good back bouncing bait. I bleed it by cutting the tail off. Then filleted it and chunked it and left it in a tub, soaking in the blood.

After that I always brought a good rod setup with a large crank bait with large tremble hooks. I always had a good asian carp after that.
 
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Nice sunrise today, our weather this year has been extreme, hotter than normal then cooler than normal, dryer than normal then wetter.
Lordy, my wife is having a second childhood crisis, we not only got egg chickens we now have meat chickens. Told her I would build her a chicken tractor for them, but I was having nothing to do with butchering them. She said her mom would come help cut them up and the G-kids could do a lot of the plucking. Great now my G-kids can hate the smell of hot, wet chicken feathers for the next 60+ years like I do.
Glad to see you posting pictures Denny. It's not uncommon to snag one of the Asian Carp while Skip Jack fishing below Ky./Barkley Dams. Makes for an exciting fight but takes a lot of time and it's hard to keep them out of the way of other anglers with light Skip tackle.
 
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Jbuck said:
Nice sunrise today, our weather this year has been extreme, hotter than normal then cooler than normal, dryer than normal then wetter.
Lordy, my wife is having a second childhood crisis, we not only got egg chickens we now have meat chickens. Told her I would build her a chicken tractor for them, but I was having nothing to do with butchering them. She said her mom would come help cut them up and the G-kids could do a lot of the plucking. Great now my G-kids can hate the smell of hot, wet chicken feathers for the next 60+ years like I do.
Glad to see you posting pictures Denny. It's not uncommon to snag one of the Asian Carp while Skip Jack fishing below Ky./Barkley Dams. Makes for an exciting fight but takes a lot of time and it's hard to keep them out of the way of other anglers with light Skip tackle.
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LOL, your g-kids are not going to like that task. Today, if I am eating a chicken breast and there is a slight whiff that reminds me of the wet chicken feathers from years back, it locks my jaws, I can't take another bite. lol
 
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