An angler from the UK caught a “proper lump” of a common carp on a recent trip to Hungary. Weighing 105.4 pounds, the obscenely fat carp stands to break a world record, according to the managers of ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the past several summers, I have been on a fishing mission. This challenge is not new. In fact, I have spent the last several years in search of big carp and I have many hours of research under my ...

As we motored down the Snake River in the twilight of a 100-degree summer night, I looked at my companions, Caleb and Randal, and smiled. “Archers!!” I cried above the hum of the jet motor. “Loose!!!” ...

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.

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 ...

A couple of weeks ago my buddy Paul Dubas and I were fishing the Tongue River and trying to connect on trout and smallmouth bass. Though we had some hits on streamers, neither Dubas nor I managed to ...

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 ...

SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. — A Pennsylvania man came to West Virginia for an annual fishing get together with buddies and he almost bailed due to the weather, but was glad he didn’t when he hooked the new ...

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 ...