Dobbing on commercials is often the only way of getting a bite in the depths of winter from lethargic carp that aren’t feeding properly. It looks easy enough when you watch another angler in action, ...

Jorge Rojas thinks big when he goes fishing at Lake Fayetteville. Big means carp weighing 20 pounds or more for Rojas and his son, David, 8, on their trips most Sundays to the Fayetteville city lake.

There are two perceptions of common carp among anglers in the United States. One group believes that carp are dumb and that nothing could be easier than going after them. They believe that learning ...