Anybody target carp with your fly rod and care to share which flies are productive? I heard nymphs and wooly buggers work.
I know some of y’all are laughing about chasing carp…I heard they’ll take you striaght into the backing. Wouldn’t be myself if I didn’t give it a try.
ive caught them on a yellow or white poppingbug.just throw infront of the fish and dont pop it.i guess it looks like a bread ball and they do eat it.
You might try searching on the Florida Sportsman Flyfishing forum. I have seen a lot of posts there about flyfishing for carp.
Here’s the link
http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zeroforum?id=4
Rubber Legged Dragon’s seem to work best for me. Clousers as well. The big thing to remember is that Carp are not visual feeders…and since you are using a fly you have to sight cast for them and put the fly in front of them so that they suck it up during their feeding.
Below is a good picture of a friend of mine with a nice carp he stuck with a clouser on a river down in GA.
You have to remember that there are two types of carp. The grass carp won’t readily take a fly. They tend to be bigger and the main way you can tell is that they don’t have barbels. THe common carp tails like a redfish. I have caught them using rubber legged nymphs in black, brown, yellow. I tie them with small tungston dumbell eyes so they sink fast but don’t plink hard when they are cast. Sightfishing to carp is a ton fun.
I am moving to charleston next week, so hopefully I will do more of the real deal (redfishing). But we practiced up on the catawba chain of reservoirs by poling and fishing to carp.
Check out www.carolinabonefishing.com THis guy is a carp guide and he does know his stuff.
BTW if you know where some carp tail and you want to go let me know.
toothlesblue.i saw 6 grass carp tailin 2day before i stuck a arrow through them so i believe they tail also.they were 40 to 50lb and im not shur but i dont think that the commons get that big or do they?
carp = freshwater redfish when it comes to the fight. Get ready for several long runs!
toothlessblue you from the Fort Mill area?
I had a carp eat a fly the other night while I was fishing for bream in the ponds in my back yard. I was using my roomates gear so I couldnt tell you the name of the fly, but it was the size of a rice grain. This fish ate it on purpose too, I did not site cast to him. Fun catch though, he was only 5lbs not to big.
Ive had luck on pale glo bugs/ steelhead egg patterns
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Originally posted by scotty dIve had luck on pale glo bugs/ steelhead egg patterns
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