mah, i think that the only satisfaction in spearing the carps is that you can take photos with a "big one": they're too easy ton shoot (not exactly tha fast and furious fish) and not so good to eat for my taste. I once caught a 18,5 kg carp in Garda lake (Italy's largest lake, on the lower edge of the alps). Up there it's full of eels, pikes and blackbass, but visibility is quite low. I was scanning the sand inch by inch looking for for eels with a five-prong omer tempest 50, when I rose up my head towards a huge dark shadow. My finger pulled the trigger without judgement. I badly hit the enormous carp's tail. Of course I couldn't pierce it, so I wrestled to wrap it up with the line and started stabbing it.
Great photos, but not so the dinner: lots of bones and taste of mud. That was my first and last carp ever speared.
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