carp fishing, camping and outdoorOn a fantastic 75-degree day without the slightest degree of wind, two friends and I parked the truck in a tree-shrouded parking lot and grabbed all of our Carp fishing equipment. The weekend was here and it could not have been a better day for camping and outdoor adventure. This was the second time I’d been to this particular lake and the tenth time for my buddy who drove. He had tried casting his reel at different spots of the lake and found success at a few of them. The plan was to split up and cast into separate parts of the lake. The first person who caught a fish would then get on the walkie-talkie and alert the other two he had found a fishy area.

With walkie-talkies similar to the MicroTalk 2 way Radio 25 mile. Model - CXR700 I found while shopping for camping and outdoor gear within Olis Outdoors at http://www.route66megamall.com/, we didn’t have to worry about setting up outside of the radio’s range.  Since I don’t go Carp fishing that often I paired up with a buddy as the, driver and more frequent fisherman went a separate way to a small peninsula poking out into the water maybe a quarter mile away. We also only had two walkie-talkies so two of us had to stick together. Carp fishing can be all about patience. We had the right lure, our reels cast into what looked like a fish heavy zone with all of the logs and trees hanging over the water but we didn’t get a bite.

For about the first 45 minutes the only things said over the radios were jokes back and forth or updates on what was going on. Then we got something from our buddy who went solo. Really quickly he said, “I got a bite,” and then the radio went silent. I assumed he was on the lake’s edge trying to pull in his first catch. We couldn’t see where he was and decided to pack up and go run over to where the potential fish were. After jumping from rock to rock, sweeping around trees and hugging the lake’s edge we found our friend sitting on the ground, messing with the pole. His hook got stuck on drift wood and it broke the line when he tried reeling it in. That is Carp fishing. Sometimes the fish bite and other times it nothing but false alarms. No matter what happens Carp fishing is a great way to spend an afternoon.