Got out Sunday with Ryan and Capt. Paul and hooked up on a couple. I'm rusty as hell, but managed one little guy after losing a couple due to slow hooksets, and one very heavy handed hookset. Nothing broke on the boat...so it was a good day. Carp carrots are the shiznit.
(http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr50/mattp77/Fish/10-3.jpg)
(http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr50/mattp77/Fish/10-2.jpg)
(http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr50/mattp77/Fish/10-1.jpg)
looks like a great time.. 0:0
I have yet to catch a carp on the fly..
maybe next year..
Nice on bro. Nothin better than a bronze back, did Mr Get Bent offer you some piss in a bottle? Miller low life :-*
Quote from: Transylwader on September 07, 2010, 11:51:13 AM
Nice on bro. Nothin better than a bronze back, did Mr Get Bent offer you some piss in a bottle? Miller low life :-*
Ahh c'mon, I bought the piss in the bottle for you. I figured you would feel at home :P. We sipped on some Dales Pale Ale for your info! ;D
Good day on the water until the boats started churning it up! Sight fishing to carp is addicting.
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and some more of this one.... -+; -+; -+; -+;
Some more pics...
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(http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/ad127/Bentrod2010/DSC_0055-1.jpg)
(http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/ad127/Bentrod2010/DSC_0047-1.jpg)
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Carp can be a hoot on a fly-rod. I've only caught one. Kinda looks like a warm water Whitefish. I assume they can't jump - or at least they don't enjoy it.
You guys be carpinc*nters then! Good on ya, yeah Ryan, you are at least right about me drinking anything with fizz in a can, no wonder I always feel like shit...
You guys suck! >:D Last few times out I've seen plenty of fish...but could'nt get em' to eat for hell. b'; I googled "carp carrot" and got about a dozen different patterns....but it appears the jist of it is a carrot colored sort of soft hackle nymph.....damn it....I even threw one of those...I take have a brief take from a sucker....but popped it right out of his mouth on the hook set.
Nice work!! bd;0
Quote from: overbrook on September 08, 2010, 05:25:20 AM
You guys suck! >:D Last few times out I've seen plenty of fish...but could'nt get em' to eat for hell. b'; I googled "carp carrot" and got about a dozen different patterns....but it appears the jist of it is a carrot colored sort of soft hackle nymph.....damn it....I even threw one of those...I take have a brief take from a sucker....but popped it right out of his mouth on the hook set.
Nice work!! bd;0
Yeah, they're a bitch. Ryan got one the first time he went out with me, but it took me a long time before I got my first one to the boat. Keep trying the carrot. The one we were using was the sparsest fly I think I've ever tied, but they were chasing it down. The next month should be really good. Clear-ish low water and hungry fishes in the flats.
Quote from: bullship on September 08, 2010, 10:06:09 AM
Quote from: overbrook on September 08, 2010, 05:25:20 AM
You guys suck! >:D Last few times out I've seen plenty of fish...but could'nt get em' to eat for hell. b'; I googled "carp carrot" and got about a dozen different patterns....but it appears the jist of it is a carrot colored sort of soft hackle nymph.....damn it....I even threw one of those...I take have a brief take from a sucker....but popped it right out of his mouth on the hook set.
Nice work!! bd;0
Yeah, they're a bitch. Ryan got one the first time he went out with me, but it took me a long time before I got my first one to the boat. Keep trying the carrot. The one we were using was the sparsest fly I think I've ever tied, but they were chasing it down. The next month should be really good. Clear-ish low water and hungry fishes in the flats.
Yeah....I think we just need some cooler weather down my way....everything was chasing flies...but nothing was eating. b';
Tell me where you are and I'll check out those carps for you :D
So who's willing to post a pic or pattern for this carrot fly? ;D Help a fellow carping brother out...
This is a shitty version of one of mine with orange antron body, light olive hungarian partridge hackle, and some wiggle dub for the thorax:
(http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr50/mattp77/flies/ecc.jpg)
The one these carp were caught with had no thorax dubbing...very simple fly. I believe Mr. P ties the original and fo real carp carrot...
This is Mr. P's...or John Montana's...not actually sure, but it's a carp carrot:
(http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr50/mattp77/flies/MrPsCarpCarrotJPG.jpg)
This is a spider pig. It is not a carp fly:
(http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr50/mattp77/flies/spiderpig-front.jpg)
Ha ha Matt ure the funniest bloke ever. I know some "pigs" in Raleigh u'd have a otugh time landing on that thang. TM, where is that pic of the "bompies"?
Quote from: bullship on September 08, 2010, 20:05:32 PM
This is a spider pig. It is not a carp fly:
(http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr50/mattp77/flies/spiderpig-front.jpg)
Thats funny shit right there! and would probably catch a fish.....just not for me. :laugh:
I give it 8 dancing bananas ....
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8 bananas?Flippin heck Ben youre stingy mate! This 1st one is for you and all your mates... {S;
For all the wannabees... -+;
And for u Matagonia and the ever protagonist for flying my filthy flag, Ryan... V:; V:; V:; V:; V:; V:; V:; V:; V:; V:; V:; V:; V:; V:; V:; V:;
Everybody else? Ha ha and fek yeah! p;-
"Spider Pig, Spider Pig, Does what ever Spider Pig does!" (I think thats how it goes!)
Homer Simpson
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Someday I will catch a fish on that ugly bastard. Tying while wasted sometimes leaves you with a keeper.
I have never caught a carp on a fly rod, but I have shot the heck out of them with a bow. That is about as much fun as it gets.
It might be more fun if they're not dead...they tend to fight a little longer.
Quote from: cypresstrout on September 28, 2010, 13:59:19 PM
I have never caught a carp on a fly rod, but I have shot the heck out of them with a bow. That is about as much fun as it gets.
What do you do with them after you kill them?
It was back in my college days. I sold them for 50 cents a piece. Paid for my expenses! -0-
Well at least you sold them. These days the bow fishing fuckwads just kill'em for sport.