01-22-2006, 11:54 AM
[cool][#0000ff]I really have taken a lot of carp on the flyrod too. Only a couple of times I deliberately fished for them. Most times I catch carp on flies, it is on flies being fished for something else...like trout or bluegills. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Like the goddess lady says, small buggy looking nymphs work well in most places, because carp feed on aquatic insects too. In fact, big carp will often slurp in a streamer or something big like wooly buggers. They eat meat as well as veggie stuff.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have taken quite a few carp in city park ponds or other places where people throw bread to the ducks (or carp). The carp get used to slurping anything white from the surface. I make up a white spun deerhear or white hackle fly and just plop it on the surface ahead of a cruising carp. Most times it will disappear in a whirlpool into some rubbery looking lips. Fight on.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have also taken more than a few on regular dry flies. The Renegade pattern, a popular pattern for trout in the west, seems to be attractive to carp too, probably because of the white forehackle.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That big carp in the picture was taken from shore at Willard Bay reservoir, while flinging a little chartreuse marabou fly for crappies. It really tested my little 4 weight rod and 4# tippet before it crawled up on the bank.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Whenever you can find carp cruising in shallow water, clear enough to see them and have them see the fly, you can have some "artificial bonefish" action. They are spooky and you have to be careful in your casts and presentation. But, if you get it right, they DO run like bonefish and really bend your stick and stretch your string.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Like the goddess lady says, small buggy looking nymphs work well in most places, because carp feed on aquatic insects too. In fact, big carp will often slurp in a streamer or something big like wooly buggers. They eat meat as well as veggie stuff.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have taken quite a few carp in city park ponds or other places where people throw bread to the ducks (or carp). The carp get used to slurping anything white from the surface. I make up a white spun deerhear or white hackle fly and just plop it on the surface ahead of a cruising carp. Most times it will disappear in a whirlpool into some rubbery looking lips. Fight on.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have also taken more than a few on regular dry flies. The Renegade pattern, a popular pattern for trout in the west, seems to be attractive to carp too, probably because of the white forehackle.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That big carp in the picture was taken from shore at Willard Bay reservoir, while flinging a little chartreuse marabou fly for crappies. It really tested my little 4 weight rod and 4# tippet before it crawled up on the bank.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Whenever you can find carp cruising in shallow water, clear enough to see them and have them see the fly, you can have some "artificial bonefish" action. They are spooky and you have to be careful in your casts and presentation. But, if you get it right, they DO run like bonefish and really bend your stick and stretch your string.[/#0000ff]
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