I fish with hotdogs.

There are these fish in the river down steam from the Finch Puryn paper co. that i shit you not, will bite on shoe laces or any other thing that happens to fall in the water. These things are nucking futs.

I almost forgot, I knew this guy who used a chunk of ham sandwich on his hook.

carp will hit on just about anything won't they?

You should have seen the friggin carp i saw last summer when i was fishing out of my kayak. This monster was in 2 feet of water and had to be 3 feet long. I got right up to it and it took off with a tsunami splash that damm near tipped me over.

...we used to catch them at work, on break, out of a creek in Harmony, PA...we'd leave them lie on the shore...go back to work...they'd still be alive hours later on next break...

I have some pictures of 20 pounders from last year that I caught.

The best bait for carp are Mulberries around this way. If you know of a pond or lake with mulberry trees that hang over the water and the lake has carp in it, simply cast a mulberry under that tree and they will hit it like a shark. Caught 64 of them one day using that method. The mulberries are hard to keep on the hook but it can be done with a small hook.