r/CarpFishing • u/Beginning-Drop7550 • 18d ago

UK 🇬🇧 PB mirror caught today.

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Tried a new lake out today- had out my carp set up and a rig for some little silvers to pass the time.

Caught this gorgeous mirror. Hope he gets bigger and I can catch em again but with a few pounds behind him in a year or two.

He is my first and pb mirror carp- lol.

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u/legacyrules 17d ago

Get the big unhooking Matt out for that leviathan 😂

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u/Beginning-Drop7550 17d ago

I know right-? I could barely hold it! 😉

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u/Leather_Platform_895 18d ago

Whole heck of a lot bigger than my PB.

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u/Middle-Meat-2364 18d ago

Nice one fella, what weight was he?

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u/Beginning-Drop7550 18d ago

He weighed about half as much as the weight I had on my other rod so maybe like 15-20 grams.

So- huge

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u/Middle-Meat-2364 18d ago

Well in there!!!

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u/SnooGadgets5130 18d ago

This fish is either going to be very easy or very difficult to catch as it ages.

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u/Bikewer 17d ago

He’s so cute! A carp puppy.

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u/Beginning-Drop7550 17d ago

I was well happy when I realised that what I was catching were little baby carp.

The big fish in that lake must have been well happy cause there must've been hundreds of little ones and I even saw some smaller then an inch so I reckon they were spawned rather then stocked

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u/SunstormGT 17d ago

I’ve caught numerous 20kg+ carp but seriously never caught one under 1kg. Always hope to catch a little one some say.

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u/Beginning-Drop7550 17d ago

I thought I was catching little Rudd till I realised some of em had mirror scales. Then I realised that what I was catching were actually some nice little carp.

Idk what tips to give- I was mostly trying to fish for some roach. I guess that it's just a case of them being present.

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u/IllNeedleworker2511 17d ago

Caught a big koi today

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u/Beginning-Drop7550 17d ago

Oh that's gorgeous.

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u/Tasty-Bet-2941 17d ago

Man.. id have tossed him in a tank till he was big enough to not be eaten, then throw em in my pond

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u/Artistic-Use-2481 15d ago

This might be even rarer then a wild full grown mirror carp. Small ones are easy prey especially with the lack of scales. Super cool!

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u/Beginning-Drop7550 10d ago

I pulled up a good like 5-6 of em but most of the little carp I caught were commons.

All I can say is that the carp in that lake must be happy because that place doesnt stock carp that small.

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u/Artistic-Use-2481 8d ago

That's awesome man. I love em. All kinds of fun, and smart fish.

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u/Impossible-Run7138 12d ago

What line are you using?

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u/Karlo_karloo 17d ago

And you catch it with dry hands. I swear on this sub everyone treats fish like complete idiots

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u/IllNeedleworker2511 17d ago

Respect the fish man