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I have been looking at those cameras. Be nice to get some takes on video. My buddy gets here this week and we have four days of chasing carp. Hoping to get his first 30 lber...I have a couple of...

The carp are definitely heating up out there. I stuck this guy. (and a bunch of his friends) on Tuesday.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/johnmontana/63bd0f5b.jpg

Caught a nice mirror...

Probably beating each other up while spawning...I see a lot of sores and marks in the spring.

My kids got in on the action Saturday...
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Out here, clams are probably their #1 source of food. Some of the flats are littered with smashed clam shells, but i have not found a pattern that works yet. The big issue is the "plop" factor. ...

Where I fish (the Columbia and Willamette mostly) the carp eat a lot of clams, aquatic worms and nymphs, so a San Juan worm fish well. Tricky to fish as you just have to leave it there for the fish...

Lots of good stuff on this thread. Not much to add other than to say a generic pattern that covers a lot of bases is often the way to go, especially in a river. Carp will eat the basic forage...