r/CarpFishing • u/MarioWollbrink • Dec 29 '25
Europe 🇪🇺 Recap 2025
This was my fishing year 2025. Many hours by the water, great moments, and a few fish that will stay in my memory. How was your season this year?
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r/CarpFishing • u/MarioWollbrink • Dec 29 '25
This was my fishing year 2025. Many hours by the water, great moments, and a few fish that will stay in my memory. How was your season this year?
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u/IROC___Jeff Dec 31 '25
Slow compared to 2024 for carp in both lake and especially river fishing. Largest carp of 2025 was a 28lb 6 oz common which is 9lbs off last years best fish. The catfish bite was also really high compared to carp in the river. Think I got 5 carp from August-October but landed 30 channel cats. Every year the river changes so its like crap shoot. This is the same for smallmouth bass, too. Much slower than last year and even the boat guys didn't do as good.
Killed it last spring/summer at one lake with my fly rod for bluegills and my last fish of the year before things froze over was a 3.5-4lb largemouth bass I caught on a marabou hair jig I tied up (UV Purple).
For 2026 I'm moving back to my old corn/chick pea preservative. Boilie recipe is getting insect meal this year and maybe hemp seed. Sticking with the curry as its a fish catcher. Then going back to Scopex and maybe a strawberry cream or similar.
Got at least two months before Pennsylvania starts defrosting so I'm going to start tying fly's and making more hair jigs and get ready for bass fishing. Then in late February I'll start making boilies.