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Carp seem to prefer certain places, and 
if the angler takes careful note where 
they rise at, or above, the surface, that 
will be the best place to make the cast, 
the method of which is precisely the 
same as casting the plug for bass. Im- 
mediately after the cast, the float rises 
to the surface and the lead holds the 
baited hooks on the bottom, where it 
should be patiently observed till the float 
gives notice that a fish is nosing the bait. 
It is useless to strike until the float has 
been dragged away several yards from 
the place it first bobbed under. If the 
line is out sixty to ninety feet, the rod- 
tip needs a wider and more vigorous 
strike than when fishing close in. 
For close fishing, after the float moves 
slowly away, reel the line nearly tight, 
then give a short wrist jerk to embed the 
hook, and at the same instant free the reel 
line, for a big fish of fifteen pounds, upon 
feeling the bait, will give a tremendous 
sweep of its broad tail to dash off at a 
clipping pace to a distance of one to two 
hundred feet, and it is certain disaster 
to try and stop the first powerful rush. 
When the reel slows down just a little, 
the angler should raise the rod to turn 
the fish, or walk back a distance on shore 
to turn it. As a rule the carp is obedient 
and turns to swim as rapidly back, 
though by no means subdued or ready 
for the net. 
This back and forward long swim is 
a peculiar feature of the carp’s active 
resistance, and it must be allowed to keep 
up the game till the fish gradually gives 
up the fight. Sometimes I have had a 
particularly obstinate and vigorous fish 
refuse to turn, holding fast with its nose 
dug in the mud, wagging its wide tail in 
precisely the same manner of the At- 
lantic salmon in which is known as “gig- 
gering.” In such instances the carp must 
be treated like the salmon, that is, the 
angler must wait till the carp does move, 
which it does after awhile on a perfectly 
tight line. 
I use a large folding salmon net to 
land carp; those anglers who do not use 
a net but try to drown their fish nearly 
always lose the big ones. 
If the actions of the carp here de- 
scribed is not gamy, then I do not know 
what constitutes gameness in fishing. 
The carp is so shy as to ponder a long 
while before it touches the bait. When 
the bait is taken and any resistance is 
felt the carp at once regrets it. 
When the carp is fairly hooked it rises 
to the surface at once, either to flounder 
about or leap above, surging off a con- 
siderable distance at breakneck speed. 
Such, then, is what I have found to be 
the gameness of a carp, 
its edible qualities, it is only those 
who have not tasted a properly 
cooked carp that scornfully say it is not 
a good foodfish. It has a peculiar taste 
of its own, like every other fish — as, for 
instance, the difference of taste in trout 
and mackerel, each peculiar to itself, but 
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