carp

[bullship]

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.

[blue ridge angler]

looks like a great time.. 0:0
I have yet to catch a carp on the fly..
maybe next year..

[diaz dassie]

Nice on bro. Nothin better than a bronze back, did Mr Get Bent offer you some piss in a bottle? Miller low life

[Get Bent]

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 . We sipped on some Dales Pale Ale for your info!

Good day on the water until the boats started churning it up! Sight fishing to carp is addicting.



and some more of this one....

[Get Bent]

Some more pics...

[jwgnc]

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.

[diaz dassie]

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...

[overbrook]

You guys suck!    Last few times out I've seen plenty of fish...but could'nt get em' to eat for hell.   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

[bullship]

You guys suck!    Last few times out I've seen plenty of fish...but could'nt get em' to eat for hell.   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.

[overbrook]

You guys suck!    Last few times out I've seen plenty of fish...but could'nt get em' to eat for hell.   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.

[bullship]

Tell me where you are and I'll check out those carps for you

[thenextlevel]

So who's willing to post a pic or pattern for this carrot fly?     Help a fellow carping brother out...

[bullship]

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:


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...

[bullship]

This is Mr. P's...or John Montana's...not actually sure, but it's a carp carrot:

[bullship]

This is a spider pig. It is not a carp fly: