Friday, September 25, 2015

Reservoir Carp

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!

4 comments:

  1. Awesome. That's a real friend. My buddies pretend they don't speak English when I ask about what they've been catching.

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    1. Yes 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.

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  2. A white woolie bugger is the most under rated carp fly there is. I've caught carp for years with it!

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    1. I 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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