INSANE Topwater Carp Fishing At Rehoboth Beach, DE 9/13/15

Big Carp of the day at 6:40
Bait Used: Wonder Classic White Bread (size 1 gamakatsu Aaron Martens TGW drop shot hook, rigged weightless)

Rod/Reel/Line used: Shimano JDM Aldebaran BFS XG Limited (10 lb suffix 832 braid, 15 trilene big game monofilament leader) with a BPS Bionic Blade micro 6'6" med/fast

Edit: The best way to hold a carp is horizontally, support their belly with one hand and their lip/mouth with the other. For trophy sized carp, you should have a landing net and keep them in the water until they can be unhooked and released! I've only fished for carp a handful of times and I'm always learning new things about the sport I love :D

Location: Silver Lake in Rehoboth Beach, DE
Date: September 13th, 2015
Primary Pattern: Letting random bystanders chum the water for me with chips then swooping in and catching carp like a boss xD
Time Fished: 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Air Temp: Low of 67 degrees, high of 69 degrees
Water Temp: 70 degrees
Water Clarity: 3-4 inches
Conditions: Partly cloudy with winds from the WNW up to 11 mph
Hatcam Used: Gopro hero 4 silver (1080p, 60 FPS, medium FOV) - chesty + external audio

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Overview - Tried to carp fish the day before at a small pond. I caught a nice 26 inch carp within the first minute of fishing (almost lost my rod in the water because I setting up a rig for my dad) and my sister Kimi caught her very first carp ever! We got an hour in on the water before a downpour ruined our fun and forced us back to the hotel.

The next morning I woke up early at 7 am and walked to Silver Lake for some bass. I fished for an hour and covered a lot of water mainly hitting docks popping frogs and skipping senkos. I also tried to cover the shorelines with a spinnerbait under the windy conditions.

As I was fishing I kept seeing carp everywhere but no signs of any bass even though I've caught some good sized bass from here before. I decided to abandon the bass fishing and go back to the room to see if Kimi wanted to catch some more carp since our session was cut short the day before.

We got some breakfast and were back on the lake around 9:30. I planned on sight fishing carp cruising the shoreline but as soon as we got to the playground area we saw a group of people feeding chips to a massive school of carp.

There were probably 20-30 carp in a feeding frenzy so I knew I wouldn't have to do much to catch them. I waited a few minutes for the bridge crowd to die down before I set up my gear.

The carp in the lake are conditioned to eating on topwater since they often steal bread from people who feed the geese (even though there are signs everywhere that say PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE GEESE :P

Normally when I carp fish I'll fish a few pieces of corn on a size 6 hook or a ball of break on a size 1 or 2 hook. But to "match the hatch" or whatever you want to call it in this scenario, I carefully threaded my hook through the bread to maximize its surface area and allow it to float.

As soon as I pitched the bread into the water a giant carp came up and slurped it in. I waited 2 seconds before setting the hook (the standard procedure when fishing any type of topwater bait) and the carp peeled off. I don't know how it happened, but the carp somehow threw the hook and escaped.

No problem, there were plenty of carp in the area and before long I hooked up with another decent sized fish. It was really cool seeing the carp feeding so actively from a birds eye view on the bridge.

Kimi caught a carp the day before fishing a bread ball on the bottom but she struggled to grasp how to catch carp on top. Anytime a carp would come up and eat her bread she would jerk the bait out of the carp's mouth :P

After the pringles chucking kids left the bridge and I hooked a few fish, the bite died down as the carp moved back to the main lake out of the creek type area.

Kimi and I made a move and walked a quarter of a mile to the main lake bridge where I saw schooling carp that morning. As we got there were a group of 10 carp swimming around with their heads out of the water.

Kimi baited her hook and threw it to the school. Right away a carp inhaled the bread and she FINALLY waited 2 seconds before setting the hook. Now this is where it got interesting... (out of description space :P)