I think there was a post on this sometime but I couldent find it but whats a good bait to catch carp? Ive just discovered I have some sort of carp in my lake they only come out at night and the ones I saw wih the spot light were about 8" in less the 2' of water but im betting theres bigger ones in the lake but im not even sure what kind they are I looked on a site but I saw several it could have been but id like to try and catch one thanks,sean

We use cheese and bread rolled up in a ball.Works well here in manitoba.

Hey rusty are you sure that they arent suckers? Suckers act that way up here in michigan, we bowfish for then at night. As far as bait id say most any live/dead bait on the bottom would be good.

They could be some sort of sucker im not really sure but I saw some bigger ones tonight about 10" but there shaped like a bass and there silver with there mouth towards the bottom I looked on the local game comission site at all the local fish and saw several that were similar to them but I dont know Im just figuring there may be some larger ones so id like to try and catch one

I have found that if you take the large squares of Shredded Wheat and wet it and then keep working it into a ball, they really like it..I take a piece about the size of one of those practice weights they give kids on their closed faced rods and put it on a hook. make sure the hook is hidden then just cast it out and let it sit...they'll find usually only take a couple of minutes cause it puts off a pretty good scent trail for them.

We use corn on gold hooks, sink to bottom.

I have a good recipe for ya, mix a 1/4 cup canned corn with 2 jars of berkley trout bait add one can of copenhagen and 2 table spoons flour and one teaspoon of garlic salt. mix thoroughly. also great for channel catfish.

another is grind up a 1/4 cup of dry catfood mix thoroughly with 2 jars of berkley trout bait and a dozen meal worms.

Something else that works good if you can find it is Zekes corn flavored floating trout bait.

heres another recipe for a chum to chum the water to get them in your area, mix one can cream corn with one can corn add 4 cups water a jar of peanut butter 1 can of copenhagen 1 cup flour and half cup garlic salt. mix thoroughly so you have a very thin almost water like paste be sure that there is not to much whole corn kernals you dont want them to fill up on the chum you want them to smell it and come eat your baited hook. this should give about a gallon or two of chum only throw about 2 cups of it in the water about every two hours or so.

sounds almost like a drum fish, but they eat the same stuff as carp.

Thats what someone else told me to so it may be some sort of drum..... but I havent really found a perfect picture yet that tells me what they are

If they are freshwater drum, minis as well as crawlers will work good.

If they are carp, I suggest a good doughball.

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
8 tablespoons of sugar
1 bottle (16 oz) karo syrup
1 fl oz strawberry flavor or 1 box any flavor jello
1 bag of yellow cornmeal or 1/2 corn meal and 1/2 cornflakes or frosted flakes.

Preparation:
Mix ingredients and then put in the freezer for 1 hour before using them
Have fun and sit back and watch um start bitin'!