Carp on Flies

Mitch123 · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:54 pm Post subject: Carp on Flies

Walking the banks of the Yarra river in Fairfield last weekend and saw a school of at least 100 Carp a metre plus in length, sunning themselves, picking insects off the surface. Does anyone fish for them? They fight like crazy so would be a real challenge on fly.

Ashfish · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 11:24 pm Post subject:

If they are on the surface try any of your big fluffy Dry's, I have caught them on Royal Wulfs before too... I find a school like you discribe and just deliver the fly amoungst them, it's only a matter of time before a big pair of rubber lips find it..

then it's game on

If you find them cruzing the bank orange or green wooly buggers work a treat also, position the fly 1 to 2 meters infront of the direction the fish is moving and make small strip retreives of a few cm at a time and if they are in the mood they hit pretty hard.
Good luck

Dory · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:22 pm Post subject:

This the one fly i do all my carp damage with at liddell in the hunter valley

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fishnjimmy · Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:30 am Post subject:

i know peeps have caught them on bread flies but u would probably have to cast into a burley trail like people do for Milkfish

parrafisherman · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:45 am Post subject:

the lattest "The Fishing DVD" has a section on carp on fly by Peter Morse. Its realy good and explains alot. Should be in most local News Agents.

bugsplat · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:04 am Post subject: Re:

parrafisherman · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:37 pm Post subject:

my friends 1st fish on fly. taken on a white calftail bread fly. it was so fat. like it would have weighed 5kg easy because of how fat it was.

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Woolly Bugger · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject:

Ahh, friends with benefits.

For carp i mostly have used woolly buggers - which i 'spose will come as no great suprise. I use a slow steady strip. For dries i have had success with elkhair caddis patterns (further proof it's the only dry pattern you need!). I don't think it matters too much what fly you use though. If they are feeding off the surface any dry will do, and if they are feeding below the surface a black nymph or any wet will do.

To be honest, my brother and i used to catch them on "M&M coloured, bought in K-mart for $2.50 for a dozen, tied in china by some dude who has no idea what a trout even looks like" wet flies that looked like no fly previously known to man. We also caught them on nymphs made from hair cut from the bum of our mostly dead 15 yo cat. We wanted to prove you could tie a workable fly from anything! We tried casting those nymphs at trout and they'd charge in, get a wiff and and swim for their lives. Carp thought they were yummy.

But often they just won't take anything. They'd just rather eat the @#$& off the bottom. I think that's why they liked our cat bum flies!