Kids Carp Derby offers quality family experience | NevadaAppeal.com
by By Mike Sevon For the Nevada Appeal
I can say from experience that there is no other fishing derby for youth in Nevada that offers bigger fish than this one. The first clinic of this type was held at Lahontan Reservoir in 2001 in an effort to make use of a fishing resource that had good potential, but was pretty much undiscovered. At this time I was the supervising fisheries biologist for the Western Region of NDOW, trying to increase angler use at Lahontan Reservoir. Kids Carp Clinics were being promoted in the eastern U.S. as a really fun way to get children involved in fishing. The recipe for success was detailed in an American Fisheries Society publication, “Carp in North America.” The key to a successful derby lies in pre-baiting the cove used for the derby with cracked corn. This practice, commonly known as chumming is legal in Lahontan Reservoir and only a few other waters around the state. The bait is prepared by boiling cracked corn in grape Kool-Aid. The area is baited three days and a day prior to the...
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