Grass carp question

I know you can catch common carp with kernels of corn.
I was wondering if grass carp would eat it too?

There's this mix of jello, corn, bread crumbs and some other stuff. And I know bread balls work.

I gotta buddy who used to wear them out with a fly rod in sub division ponds. The fish were used to eating grass clippings from the mowing crews blowing grass in the ponds. He made a bunch of "flies" using green pipe cleaners and dyed green feathers. He also made flies that looked like pieces of dog food that worked well.

rukiddin said:

I gotta buddy who used to wear them out with a fly rod in sub division ponds. The fish were used to eating grass clippings from the mowing crews blowing grass in the ponds. He made a bunch of "flies" using green pipe cleaners and dyed green feathers. He also made flies that looked like pieces of dog food that worked well.

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You can catch em rising to willow flies or cicadas. I caught a huge one a couple years ago that was eating willow flies at dusk.

Me and board member Setterman, chased some of these toads together in our youth with fly rods!!! I thought he was nuts, until the first one I caught on a fly

Caught this one last Monday on a fly rod. Biggest one I've ever caught. It ate a cicada fly

I have only Caught them on flies, not sure if they'd eat corn or not.

Here's another one, this one also ate a cicada

I'm not really sure if they eat corn .

Setterman said:

Caught this one last Monday on a fly rod. Biggest one I've ever caught. It ate a cicada fly

I have only Caught them on flies, not sure if they'd eat corn or not.

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Scott Rogers would be proud bud!!

rukiddin said:

I gotta buddy who used to wear them out with a fly rod in sub division ponds. The fish were used to eating grass clippings from the mowing crews blowing grass in the ponds. He made a bunch of "flies" using green pipe cleaners and dyed green feathers. He also made flies that looked like pieces of dog food that worked well.

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For a half a second I thought you were describing me, until you said that he made his own flies. I just bought some cheap dry flies that had some green on them, but I did the same fishing method that you described.

I kept one of them and pressure-cooked it to soften the bones. It was a decent-tasting fish, but not worth the trouble unless you just gotta do it once or had no other food options. I later learned that the grass carp were all infertile and cost someone a lot of money to stock into those ponds, so I never killed another one. Still, tons of fun on 4-lb line leader on a fly rod made for small fish. Pulled every inch of line out, fought me to the knot a few times.

I'd rather shoot em with my bow!

They'll eat tomato chunks. Forgot to mention that.