I know, I know there have been other posts on this in general, but, I’m thinking about getting serious about those dudes!!! They are tough, challenging, smart, easily spooked so they won’t bite, available almost year round in many, many areas, put up a great fight, and even good eating. Yeah, that’s right, good eating as long as they are from fresh water!!! Please don’t hold that against me, Ok? Also any bait, like bread chunks floating on top, dough balls, etc. if more productive, then ok, although I would prefer flies or lures.
Anyway I would like info on the most productive fly or lure and if it is seasonal, say when it’s productive. Am talking about Willard Bay or Pineview, sight fishun. Ut Lake is a little far and I figure they’re plenty closer.
Watching a fishing program they mentioned a Gulp cricket???
P.S. I know I can always bow hunt, but I want to fish ok?
P.P.S Any showing up in the shallows at Willard yet? Ice off?
I actually saw one roll in Cutler last night as I was driving by. If they’re becoming active up here, I’ll bet they’re stirring at Willard too [:)]
One of my favorite flies for cruising carp are sparkle eggs. They sink very slowly and you can often time the cast and the sink so that it’s right at snout level when the carp reaches it. I’ve caught my fair share on buggers, and large nymphs and crayfish patterns can be good too.
I actually saw one roll in Cutler last night as I was driving by. If they’re becoming active up here, I’ll bet they’re stirring at Willard too [:)]
One of my favorite flies for cruising carp are sparkle eggs. They sink very slowly and you can often time the cast and the sink so that it’s right at snout level when the carp reaches it. I’ve caught my fair share on buggers, and large nymphs and crayfish patterns can be good too.
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Hey leaky I meet I guy last year on the jordan river that was just killing them on a hares ear,I was using worms and he out fished me 3 to 1, I think the hares ear was a droper prince nympth above I believe, sorry I’m not a fly fisher.
Used to spit loogies at them at Lake Majovie in Nevada. They slurpped them up! Practically fought over my lung mucuos.
I want to try a carp. I keep finding them at Utah Lake though.[:/]
DAMNIT…when I read the title I thought, “finally a report from leaky that is about somewhere else other than the weeb”. Guess I thought wrong…my fault considering the lack of a question mark.
If you are looking for Carp…GO TO UTAH LAKE…those things are EVERYWHERE there! Sometimes they get so thick you can start snagging them. Do Utah a favor leaky and kill em all. Good luck on your carp adventures…looking forward to the report from you.
Yeah you can snag the crap out of the carp at u/l the hard part is catching them..most lake’s with carp you can throw a worm in and kill them!! not at u/l ,I don’t catch many on worms there, I have dug through a few carp sites and came up with my own recipe for carp.. some include strawberry soda with corn flakes and outhers are a paste baste resipe, but your master tube dude can catch them on jigs, so a flyy should work just as good??
Leaky, do you use fly gear or are you using spinning with a bubble? Not that it matters as you catch fish, I just don’t recall reading what gear you use and you mentioned Lures.
Hey goddess, try the south marina when it opens up at Willard. The river inlet in the morning has carp actively pursuing crawdads, just like bonefishing on the flats. A well placed fly with a crawdad imitation should do the trick.
Since no one’s pointed you to it yet - don’t know - maybe you saw it before. Idaho board had a tie-n-swap with carp flies. Some pretty crafty works I’d say! Check it out - photos included.
You do fly-fish from your tube dontcha?
Hey goddess, try the south marina when it opens up at Willard. The river inlet in the morning has carp actively pursuing crawdads, just like bonefishing on the flats. A well placed fly with a crawdad imitation should do the trick.
THANKS! I don’t know my South side from the East side ar Willard, but I know the north..LOL more exploring is in order this years for sure. Feel free to give a shout out, got the year pass and evrthin…LOL
I was out at willard this morning and seen tons of carp on the surface at just before sunrise off stinky point. They were every where and did not get spooked until we were about 4-5 feet away in the boat.
I forgot to add that a guy from my work takes two weekends out of the year to hunt for carp at starvation, he sight fishes for them in the coves and flats, he does the best with a crawdad pattern, throwing the fly in front of the path of the fish, it has a little wieght to the fly so he drags it in the mud and the carp seem to be attracted to the mud cloulds it makes.
The best thing I’ve EVER fished for carp with was 2 jigs under a fairly big bobber. You catch white bass, walleye, and LMB the WHOLE time you’re trying to snag a carp, and when ya DO snag a carp… nine out of ten times it’s in the tail where he’s heading AWAY from you at all times!! There is no better fight from ANY fish than one of those! All ya have to do is cast a double jig rig as I like to call it, right into a school of carp and slowly retrieve it thru them. When the line goes tight or the bobber starts going under…give a MIGHTY yank…and most of the time it’s GAME TIME!! GEEZUS THATS FUN!! I’ve broke off more than I’ve caught…something about the swimming away from you at all times. And like I said, the bonus is the wallys and whiteies that just seem to like the slower presentation more! In fact when most people are throwing just jigs…I have on the jig rig. One day yrs ago on the Bubble up, before it was a pipe…I was catching 4 to 1 to any one around me. Just a thought…worth trying.
Oh, and the jig color doesn’t matter for the carp, whatever the wallys want is the BEST color!!
First, thanks, thanks, thanks. I am very surprised about the responses. I"m going to read thru the responses several times to digest (I’m slow). I much prefer using a fly type of lure, which by the way can be used behind a bubble on spin + bubble but will use anything that works best. The big problem with my fly rod is that I have an ancient fly reel that sticks in drag mode and if I get a big ol carp on, well break off time. Yeah, I know, I need a new reel. But that’s another subject. Don’t have $ to spend on a good reel so I make do. The quick look brought to my feeble mind 2 quickie questions.
- In some of the internet researches I’ve done, I’ve seen a fly that was made to mimic floating white bread, maybe, like cotton + floatant or something else. white being one of the keys ??? No mention of that kind of attractor in response.
- CoyoteSpinner - and others, i looked at the Idaho post and well, along with question 1) I didn’t see how to buy any of the flies mentioned.
So, --------, is my best option is to pick a crawdad like fly, fish it along the bottom or try some kind of floating fly, white mimicking white bread, or what? I’ll probably be site fishing, either wading or from a tube. Using a prince, hair’s ear or wooly bugger sounds too easy, but if it’s as good as any, why not?
Again, thanks folks,!!! Any comment to the above???
P.S. Still sticking to my guns. Great sport fish and good eating. Open your mind folks and try it!!!
I have done really well with bread flies back when we used to fish this pond where people fed the ducks a lot. They were accustomed to seeing bread, so it worked wonders there. Those flies are cake to make too. All you need to do is throw some white or cream dubbing in a dubbing loop and wrap it up the shank of your hook.
I spent a couple of years in Brazil and went fishing every chance I got. The brazilian ladies take a carp, cut it in bite size (catfish bait sized) chunks and then fry it with onions, tomatoes, green peppers, and some hot little fiery ones. After it has browned they add water and make a soup out of it. You then ladle the chunks and sauce onto your rice and beans. I really miss that. Carp is delicious!
At utah lake I look for the undewater mud boils where they are feeding and toss in a worm on a #4 hook with a half a nightcrawler. They are a lot of fun to fight on lite tackel and the best catfish abit on earth.