Carp can be located throughout the entire lake, although, you will find lots of fish around murky, shallow areas. Get out to your fishing destination
at first light, but don't actually fish. Walk the shorelines or slowly drive your boat along areas looking for feeding fish. In big lakes, they will be a lot
harder to find than in ponds and small lakes. In the shallows, you should see fish feeding on the surface, or darting out away from the boat. Map
these areas so you know where to come back and fish. Carp will be in these areas during the mornings and evenings and in slightly deeper water
around those same areas throughout the day.
Carp will stay on the move, so make sure you have a few spots mapped out to give you a backup plan. If the fish aren't in a spot where you saw
them a day or two ago, try your other spots until you find them.
In lakes, carp can be found around weedy and mucky areas. Shallow, mucky areas hold a lot of fish early in the morning and in the evening. Carp
also love weeds. Catching carp around the weeds can be extremely difficult. Some times the weeds are very thick and the carp will be in the
weeds. Getting a bait to these fish is tough and if they do bite they are going to run right into the thickest weeds and most likely get off. Carp will
also roam open water stopping on points, humps, drop-offs and other structure to feed.
In rivers, most carp can be found in slack waters. Some fish will be in stronger currents or even up at the dams, but you will find most of the carp in
stretches of calmer water and in backwaters. After heavy rains, fish the backwaters. A decent-sized backwater can hold hundreds of carp.
In ponds, carp can be everywhere. They can often roam the entire pond, but some areas will hold more fish. If there is a sewer for water runoff,
this can hold lots of fish after a rain. The shoreline that the wind is blowing to will also hold more fish. The winds blow a lot of organisms across the
pond and carp will be in these areas to feed. During the day, the majority of the bigger fish can be found in deeper water.
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