Jackpot Fishing For Carp Equals Big Money In The South

More than 95 percent of the US population has nodifferent lake owners do different things during
idea what the term "Jackpot Fishing" means. Theeach contest. Lake Ann ran their tournaments as
small percentage of people that know about thisfollows: The first carp tournament would begin on
exploding trend that started in South Carolina areFriday evening at 6:00 pm and run for 12 hours:
quickly jumping in on this great money makingThe average cost for you to fish would range
fishing sport of catching carp.(depending on the weekend) from 80 to 120
What started out as an experiment with onedollars for 3 polls. Is that a lot of money to spend
small pond of about 3 acres has now spread toon fishing for 12 hours? I will let you decide on
over 500 large and small ponds, ranging from asthat as you continue to read.
far south as Florida across to Texas and intoOnce the tournament began the person that
Virginia.caught the largest fish for each hour would be
What is Jackpot Fishing For Carp?rewarded $250.00. Of course the same person
Almost everyone has heard of the fish called acould win many times. Not only that but depending
carp. There are more than 20 species of carpon how many people were involved depended on
with the most popular being the common carp,how large the Jackpots would become. At the
bullhead carp, and the grass carp. The grass carpend of the tournament there would also be 3
grows the largest and can reach 60lbs in 5 years.large pots given away for the 3 largest fish of
With the amazing strength these fish have theythe 12 hour tournament. 1st place could be
are extremely fun to catch but not so desirableseveral thousand with 3rd place receiving 7 or
to eat.800 dollars. Now with that being said lets look at
Roughly 10 years ago the owners of a small pondthe possibilities.
in SC decided to try an experiment to see if theyLets say you have the best bait on the lake, you
could actually get people to pay money to catchout catch your completion and you win just 10
these fish. In return they offered a portion of theout of those 12 hours. You have just won
money back to the person that caught theapproximately $8,000.00 You read it right it says
biggest fish during the short tournament. Theeight thousand dollars and that's not all. The good
winnings ranged from 50 to 100 dollars during thatnews is when that tournament ends a brand new
time. It wasn't long until other pond ownersone starts right back up immediately and runs
started catching on so they proceeded to buyanother 12 hours. This cycle continues until Sunday
carp and stock their ponds with 100's of carpat 6pm or if its a holiday it will keep going through
ranging from 5 to 50 lbs. This started competitionMonday.
between the pond owners and the amount ofIf you enjoy fishing and live in the south I
money given away to the winners grew rapidly.encourage you to give this a try. If you do by all
Now here we are 10 years later and an explosionmeans do not go out there thinking you can catch
has happened. The amount of money it cost tothese fish with stuff that works in large lakes or
enter these tournaments, the length of them andrivers. These fish are accustom to fantastic
the enormous amount of money persons can wintasting baits and they will not bite the same as
is extraordinary.those in the wild.
Let me give you an example:No one tells their secrets:
One of my favorite jackpot fishing lakes wasWhen you first start out I advise you don't even
Lake Ann located in Lithonia GA. It was 2 pondsget in the tournament, go to the jackpot lake on
of approximately 10 acres total. The lake wasother days and experiment with different bait
filled with catfish and carp. The total amount ofrecipes until you find something that really catches
fish it held is unknown but at last count the totalthe fish. Then and only then take your chance.
weight in fish exceeded 300 thousand pounds.The people that fish these ponds are for the
Now that's a huge amount of fish swimmingmost part experts at jackpot fishing and have
around in a small body of water. The tournamentsome of the best recipes you could imagine.
season at lake Ann was from mid March up untilSome will catch a 100+ fish a night and do it all
November each year. There was a Tuesday nightweekend long, so you have to be ready. They
tournament and then tournaments from Fridaysare not going to help you when it comes to baits
though Sundays and even longer on Holidaybecause your their opponent along with 100's of
weekends.others so don't even ask. When you find that
Here's how the money works:perfect recipe you wont share it either.
Basically all carp tournaments are the same but