carp on the fly

[lovearun 1]

ive fly fished for for game fish about 14 years now im just wondering if anybody has fished for carp or any other corse fish what flies do you use where abouts do you go thanks

[bell 3,591]

ive fly fished for for game fish about 14 years now im just wondering if anybody has fished for carp or any other corse fish what flies do you use where abouts do you go thanks

 

Caught plenty of small silver fish on fly....Dace and Roach, always on little 'black midge' patterns. Never targeted carp but some people do and very succesfully

[Irish Lurcher 1,013]

We have a very large pond over here and its stuffrf with carr have fishing it tons of times and have used my pike fly outfit for the carp and have to say its great craic. Mind you never had any of the doubles most of the carp were in the 6-8lb range but super sport.

 

If you find the carp a bit shy of the fly, loop two floating biscuits via a hair rig and you will have some craic.

[bobcullen79 1,495]

They make fake dogs biscuit flies out of deer hair I believe, Its just a fluffy ball of hair trimmed square. They look quite good but ive never used them. A tackle company has now started producing them for "normal" surface fishing, might give them a try this summer.

[paulus 26]

They make fake dogs biscuit flies out of deer hair I believe, Its just a fluffy ball of hair trimmed square. They look quite good but ive never used them. A tackle company has now started producing them for "normal" surface fishing, might give them a try this summer.

i use to make them out of deer hair the work fine, ive also taken carp, chub and roach on floating dady long legs infact the bigest carp ive ever caught was on a dady long legs.

[Nik_B 3,790]

My dad caught a nice Rudd while we were fly fishing for trout.

[Irish Lurcher 1,013]

My dad caught a nice Rudd while we were fly fishing for trout.

 

Happens a lot that, Rudd are also surface feeders and its common to get them on a dry.

[paulus 26]

My dad caught a nice Rudd while we were fly fishing for trout.

 

Happens a lot that, Rudd are also surface feeders and its common to get them on a dry.

usualy the bigger specimens

[Ideation 8,216]

I've targeted carp and other course species in eastern europe with stuff like bread patterns and blobs and similar, and the odd plug type popper fly.

[Nik_B 3,790]

My dad caught a nice Rudd while we were fly fishing for trout.

 

Happens a lot that, Rudd are also surface feeders and its common to get them on a dry.

usualy the bigger specimens

 

Yeh it was a pretty big one.

 

Ironically my dad saw it as adding insult to injury as he'd not caught a thing all day

[paulus 26]

My dad caught a nice Rudd while we were fly fishing for trout.

 

Happens a lot that, Rudd are also surface feeders and its common to get them on a dry.

usualy the bigger specimens

 

Yeh it was a pretty big one.

 

Ironically my dad saw it as adding insult to injury as he'd not caught a thing all day

:laugh:

[thorny 100]

used to fish at Springhills down on the kent/sussex border many moons ago. Its a complex of trout and course fishing. There was a lake there that was a trout lake but had a good head of carp in it. The guy would encourage people to take them off the surface with a deer hair fly. Once caught it was a mad rush to transfer to the course lake 30 yards away. I got a taste for carp on the fly then. In the summer months I go out loaded with dog biscuits and pop up maggots and fish the dykes that run along side the river thames out on the kent marsh, and catch wild carp for fun normal wieght approx 4lb. They go off like a rocket in dead straight 20ft wide and 3 ft deep ditches. I have even had a few pike out of the Medway on purpose made large flies.

[welshviper 3]

i've fished the local lakes for trout and carp and there are some big specimen in them and found the easiest way to catch them is throw some white bread out and give it half hour then go back with a white fly (floating) and cast it out to where you baited throw some more bread for it to blend in and soon enough youll have one and when u do its great fun especially when it strips your line right to the backing lol

[Flipper_Al 1,012]

Deerhair fly's, or have a look at the new Nash zig bugs.