03-19-2007, 01:01 PM
This question is for TD, but anyone else can chime in.
In your pics from time to time I've notice that you catch carp fairly well on jigs. (Big jig hanging from blubber lips.) Can you explain your technique? I've found fishing blind for carp with flies is a low percentage game - so much so that it's hardly worth it. Stalking and sight fishing in the shallows is much better. However, you can only do so much of that in a small lake and the fish wise up to you. They're much spookier than trout/bass in the places I fish. I read an article last year about a guy who does well on carp with jigs/plastics, thumping them along the bottom. I'm thinking that this could be easily adapted to the flyrod with leadhead patterns like the Clouser, allowing some "blind" fishing possibilities. Can you enlighten me on your experience? Thanks.
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In your pics from time to time I've notice that you catch carp fairly well on jigs. (Big jig hanging from blubber lips.) Can you explain your technique? I've found fishing blind for carp with flies is a low percentage game - so much so that it's hardly worth it. Stalking and sight fishing in the shallows is much better. However, you can only do so much of that in a small lake and the fish wise up to you. They're much spookier than trout/bass in the places I fish. I read an article last year about a guy who does well on carp with jigs/plastics, thumping them along the bottom. I'm thinking that this could be easily adapted to the flyrod with leadhead patterns like the Clouser, allowing some "blind" fishing possibilities. Can you enlighten me on your experience? Thanks.
z~
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