The weather was looking unsettled and in the past, that meant the carp will be inactive. But being out fishing is better than sitting at home watching TV, right?
I left the house at 10am and got to High Park by about 11am. After setting up the rods, I was fishing by about 11:30am.
It took some chumming to bring the fish in...but when the fish were in, this was the result at 12:20pm.


29" on the tape.

After that fish, it was a long wait for nothing. These Canada geese were plotting something I think...

Then, the sky got dark and it started to rain...and it rained...and it rained. I needed to hide under a willow tree to stay dry (weather forecast only said cloudy with sunny breaks...so I left the rain jacket at home...right...don't we love the weather reports

It probably rained for an hour and when it was over, I didn't see any signs of carp...but I did get a hit that I thought was a carp...but it turned out to be a bullhead catfish.
To be absolutely exact, it was a black bullhead, a species I've never caught before. Species #124! Yes!
Mug shot for my fish list...

Black barbels, white belly, smooth pectoral spine (brown bullhead has barbed pectoral spines, yellow bullhead has yellow/beige barbels).

Also shorter, rounder anal fin and squared tail...

What an absolute bonus. I wasn't expecting it

I also ended up catching a bluegill on corn

So I moved to another spot I found on GoogleMap that looked promising...so well...it was as promised...
Only took a bit of chumming and about 20min wait to get this 22" carp. By now, it was 5pm.

Chummed a little more and tossed out my rig again...and took another carp about the same size 15 min later.

I sent out my rig again...waited for about 15min...and then someone decided to toss a water bottle into my swim and have his dog retrieve it.


I did stick it out for a bit to see if the fish would return...but by 7pm, it was getting later and I just called it a day.
This was a nice test to prove my method of carp fishing works...in a new lake with a different bottom composition and weed type. It was also surprising that I caught carp on a cloudy/rainy day with low pressure since my previous experience at Toronto Islands showed that I have much better fishing when it was sunny and warm.
And the best part...it only cost me $1 for today's fishing

