When I am specifically targeting carp, I can't catch one to save my life. But when I'm targeting bass, I catch one every now and then.
I would really like to up my carp game, and be able to consistently dial them in.
I did catch a smallmouth buffalo two years ago that bottomed out a 25# scale, and went an extra 1/2" over the state C&R record (and we forgot to pinch the tail, so likely another inch). Too bad my sister only took a picture of the front half of the measured fish. I love the pic, but Texas Parks and Wildlife? Not so much. I usually fish ultralight (3wt and under), but thankfully, for some curious reason I busted out the 8wt and a 300gr sinker that day. He ate a huge crawdad jig fly I designed a few nights before. Used the fly all day and never lost it.
There's a huge, problematic overpopulation of introduced (triploid) grass carp that has absolutely decimated the vegetation in Lake Austin (Surveys said!... 0%!!). The local bassmasters complain of the bass with all-head and no-body, and of catching these "strictly vegan" carp on all manner of non-vegetable lures. They finally lifted the ban on fishing for them - need to get out there and cull a few.