Old reels in action, lets see em!

[work2fish]

Modern UL rod.  Vintage UL reel.  Small creek bass.  The combination works well for my style of fishing.

That's a beautiful smallie. What make and model is the reel? I can't magnify the picture enough to tell.

[work2fish]

Check out this link.  Unfortunately the pictures are gone but those carp make great subjects for gyotaku.  Dominick

 https://alantani.com/index.php/topic,8210.0.html

I had never heard of that, Dominick. I googled gyotaku to see some pictures. The article I found said it was the ancient Japanese equivalent of taxidermy, or of taking a photo of your catch before you release it. Cool!

[work2fish]

Mark what do you use for Carp Bait?
I have grass carp in my pond 30" now around 12#.I have caught them on red wigglers & crickets.

Only when the feeder goes off they love fish food,big splash they show off.

I usually use sweet corn on the hook and a mix of oatmeal, panko beak crumbs, and creamed corn as a pack bait to pack around the sinker as chum.

It must be a lot of fun to have your own pond. You can stock fish and watch them grow, catch them, put them back, and catch them again when they are bigger.

[Gfish]

Come-on Work2fish give that big beautiful Carp a kiss!
My first Bonefish(Oio) took me a day and a-half of going at it hard to land one. A cheap Shakespeare Synergy spincaster.
A nice Grey Snapper(Uku) overgunned a bit with a Jigmaster

[work2fish]

Come-on Work2fish give that big beautiful Carp a kiss!

I was so happy to catch the carp I would have given it a kiss if I had thought of it 

Here is my son, with a carp he caught last Fall. (I think he was just looking into its mouth, but I'm not sure...)

Hawaii must be a paradise for fishing.