Turn Bait Rig. We start the day off with a nice common carp catch, and even landed ourselves a beautiful mirror carp! A bolt rig is designed so that when a carp bites your bait, they feel the weight ...

We're out on the shoreline running an easy rig for catching carp - a finesse carp rig, or a sliding sinker rig. Bait your hook up (I used corn) and cast it out. The key is that sliding sinker. ▶ If ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.