On June 12, young Eaton angler Daniel Geiger caught a 37-inch state record grass carp from Greeley’s Allen Park pond.
Daniel Geiger, 10, holds the award he received for catching the Colorado state record for the longest grass carp ever caught while at Allen Park in Greeley.On June 12, young Eaton angler Daniel Geiger set out for the small, few-acre pond at Greeley’s Allen Park with a specific prize in mind.
“The pole started to move a little,” Daniel said. “I had to keep the line slacked or else the carp will drop it as soon as they take the corn. The line started going. And I hooked the fish, and I could feel its weight. But most carp fight pretty hard. When we got a first glimpse, I was super happy, and I was yelling.”Can the South Platte finally overcome its polluted past? Big investments aim to transform Denver’s riverfront.
But when Ryan waded into the pond’s murky waters to lift the giant over the pond’s rock-lined bank, Ryan quickly suspected the monster his son had reeled in might just qualify as a bit more than a mere Master Angler fish. It turns out this was actually a grass carp, a fish native to the Pacific Far East, much less common in this area. The feisty, scaly specimen has existed on this earth since the Jurassic Period, and it definitely looks the part.
“I looked up the common carp record, and we did all the measurements,” Ryan said. “I told Daniel, ‘You’ve got the common carp record!’ And, then I got home and I was looking at pictures of his fish, and I was like, ‘Oh, whoops. Daniel, you might not have the record.’ Then I looked up the grass carp record and took a sigh of relief.”
Though catching a state record fish isn’t exactly something even the most accomplished of anglers would expect, in Daniel’s case, it wasn’t exactly an accident, either.That much is evident in the way Daniel patiently keeps the bail of his spinning reel open, waiting for the slightest indication of movement before giving the savvy, finicky carp all the time it needs to engulf the bait before Daniel puts all of his strength into setting the hook.
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