Ok this new trend, which started on the Great Lakes now seems to be growing popular eveywhere. Have yet to try it, but am curious. Anyone here done it?
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Ok this new trend, which started on the Great Lakes now seems to be growing popular eveywhere. Have yet to try it, but am curious. Anyone here done it?
I've never done it. It's all sight fishing, and I didn't enjoy what little sight fishing I have done. You'll catch far more fish on bait.
If you're interested, check out the fly fishing board on the CAG site. Lots of good tips there:
Carp Anglers Group Forums -> Flyrod Carping
I chase them in the summer on a local river. It is pretty much sight fishing, so I will walk the river until I find a hole that is holding fish. They are very spooky critters and takes some delicate casting sometimes, but man do they make some good runs!!! Frequently have to chase them up or down the river. Here's some pics from last summer....
The Fish.
http://www.rogerslake.org/images/101_0254_e.jpg
The Fly.
http://www.rogerslake.org/images/101_0256_e.jpg
The Hole - The upper left area of the pic is stacked with fish. You can make out their shadows.
http://www.rogerslake.org/sitebuilde...e1-600x272.jpg
You need a hole like this ! this is at the marina at Beech fork , West Virginia . I fish right below there and it's a lot of fun ! and these ones are not spooked at all !Attachment 52773
They are fighters but us netters here are required by law to remove them from the water. Most southerners consider them trash fish. Hooked a one last month on 8 lb line in the tail on a Crappie jig. Now that was a fight! I know they feed on crawfish, worms, and stuff. Just never heard of fishing for them with artificals?
Awesome fighters.Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
Lefty Kreh, a famous fly fisherman who has fished all over the world, says carp are the strongest freshwater fish in the U.S. -- by far.
About the only people doing it are fly fisherman.Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
Years ago we were fishing the Mississippi where the Crow River flows in in MN. Around one bend there was a lot of foam floating and these funny rings sticking out of water. After slowing boat and watch we realized it was carp sticking their snouts up and soaking the foam in, which was probably carrying a lot of bugs in it. We were walleye and smallmouth fishing and didn't have fly gear but I often thought if you drifted a fly along with the foam you could have taken these fish on dry flies. A friend who fishes the reservoirs in northeastern TN says he catches them on flies in the fall when they school above the dams on reservoirs like Boone Lake.
Carp seem to be adaptable fish, unlike many of the so-called "sport fish" we prize. These latter are often one trick ponies. But I think of carp as the "Hogs of the Water."
This is most likely why they are found in so many places, feeding on just about everything, and anything, possible.
At first thought, I wouldn't think they would be readily taken on a fly, but I'm not surprised. And sight fishing is some of the most fun to be had with a rod.
Like deathb4disc suggests, I wouldn't hold out for only that type of fishing. But where it is possible to do it, I wouldn't hold BACK, either!