I didn't grow up carp fishing - not in the traditional sense, anyway. Back in high school, living along the upper James River in Virginia, I was broke but restless, and every summer night seemed to ...

Tim Farmer travels to the tail waters of Lake Barkley in search of Big Head Carp. Follow Tim Farmer as he travels to the tail waters of Lake Barkley in search of Big Head Carp with Jim Doom. While ...

Jorge Rojas thinks big when he goes fishing at Lake Fayetteville. Big means carp weighing 20 pounds or more for Rojas and his son, David, 8, on their trips most Sundays to the Fayetteville city lake.

Last week a Missouri angler caught a massive bighead carp that’s been certified as a new state record and stands to break the current world record for the species. George Chance caught the carp while ...

Okay, I know that most folks out there have very sound opinions of certain fish species. Their minds are made up and we are not likely to convince them otherwise. But to me, some aspects of fishing ...

Stephen Lamont Williams adjusts the white blade bait attached to his fishing rod, casts his line into the water like a whip, and waits. “They’ve got some monsters out here,” he says, pointing to the ...

"Mom, look what I caught!" That's what 4-year-old Austin Decker said to his mother after landing the big carp pictured with this column. He was fishing at Onota Lake with his mom Courtney, Uncle Corey ...

A young girl has caught an enormous carp with her bare hands in the shallows of Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. Maddie Freese, an avid fisher at 11 years old, regularly participates in kids fishing ...

Brenden Burnham has spent days fishing without a bite since he started targeting big carp. On a recent day at Virginia Lake in Reno, his patience was rewarded. Burnham, 41, landed a lunker that tipped ...

Big fish, cheap fish; sport fish, gefilte fish. With apologies to Dr. Seuss, that’s a decent summary of the situation for carp today. The fish has its share of devoted fans — some like it dead on a ...