The Bucks County Angler

  Bucks County Angler           Fishing for carp at Lake Luxembourg . February 2024 – June 2024   Believe it or not, there are some exceptionally sizable carp swimming around the rather small lake that is Lake Luxembourg . I myself have pulled up several large common carp in the last year or so alone. Most people will tell you that carp are basically vacuum cleaners, roaming the bottom of the lake, sucking up whatever they can and that's true for the most part. You can catch them on globs of raw chicken, bread dough, sweet corn, and a lot of other less than conventional baits. But, you're always gonna be successful with sweet corn and big fat night crawlers. Cutting the bigger ones in half so that there is more scent for them to follow underwater seems to be even more effective. At different times of the day, you'll want to cast out to different parts of the lake. In the middle of the day, say 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, it's best to ...

             Catching white crappies Lake Luxembourg , November 27 2023           Contrary to the belief of many, you can do some very good fishing in the colder weather. The fact of the matter is as long as the temperature is above 40° the fish are not all that inactive. Oh, it's true they're going to be slower and less hungry so you just kind of have to work at it a bit harder. One particularly good trick I learned was using under-spin jig head lures technique that worked particularly well on this particular fishing trip to Luxembourg which resulted in two of the first white crappies I had ever been able to pull up. Fishing with jig lures involves letting the lure sink to the bottom and then jerking up the tip of your fishing rod infrequent intervals to create the appearance of a dying fish or other prey. It's a good idea with certain under spin jigs to add a small amount of weight righ...

                                   Lake Luxembourg , October. 6, 2023   So, I thought that I would take another fishing trip for the day. So I traveled down to the boat rental house area of Lake Luxembourg and cast a few lines in the water using the usual night crawler bait. After an hour or two of only catching some bluegill sunnies, I decided to try out a new fishing technique that a fellow fisherman had taught me at Tyler Park a few weeks earlier, known as wacky bait rigging. Within two casts of trying that, I pulled up a very nice sized Largemouth bass, the 1st I had caught of that size in a year or two. It also marked the first real success I had ever had with any kind of non-live bait lure, having exclusively used worms for the entirety of my fishing career. Wacky bait turned out to be just about the best s...