I owe my first flyrod carp of the year to my buddy Jay. I was starting to think I wouldn't get one this year! Its been a weird year locally...carp have been nearly absent from their usual shoreline feeding areas.
Jay was out at a local reservoir looking for White Bass yesterday. Nothing going on, so he switched to his fly rod and tried for carp. He made 5 casts with his fly rod, and caught 3 nice carp within 45 minutes!! Epic battles on his 5 wt! He said he never had to wait long for a strike! He also caught one the previous day. His were decent sized fish....he estimated up to the 28"-30" range.
I made it out during lunch today. I managed to get one (and a bluegill), but not nearly as big as Jay's.
We were both just floating an unweighted white woolly bugger (fly) under an indicator! When they hit, they just...swim off. Not super-fast, but the takes weren't subtle. Pretty fun!
I had two carp try to eat my indicator, and watched another one eat something that was floating on the surface. If I'd had more time, I would have switched to topwater, and probably would have been able to catch one that way!
Awesome. That's a real friend. My buddies pretend they don't speak English when I ask about what they've been catching.
ReplyDeleteYes he is a great friend. We've been fishing together for @ 26 years. Even when we don't fish together, we report back to each other.
DeleteA white woolie bugger is the most under rated carp fly there is. I've caught carp for years with it!
ReplyDeleteI agree, I've caught more carp with it than any other single pattern. This was the first time I fished it "still" under an indicator, though.
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