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Nice job Dave! Did you get the grass carp on the bottom or mid-water column? Like those flies!

Nice fish Dave!

Thanks Dave, but if I didn't edit you'd be hearing some cussing going on, from frustration; fish not eating, fly getting snagged or line wrapping around...everything. But it's better than a bad day...

Lately, the commons have been tight-lipped for me. Might have to down-size on the patterns. I get follows, but no commitals. However, we've been having some luck with a simple guide fly my fishing...

Congrats on the move. Were the redears shallow?

I'll check the site. Thanks for the reply

Checking if anyone in the forum fishes in the area of Anniston, AL

Torpedo in the water!

Hook snapped? At least you got to see the eat. Next time you get the eat, better hang on. We saw many fish going by us, and we made many casts, but I started focusing on the fish that look like it...

If you've made some casts to them, you may have been missing the take. I usually violate this rule: If the carp does something it didn't do 5 seconds ago, set the hook. It may have already inhaled...

Give carp a try. Probably one of the hardest fighting freshwater fish out there.

I installed the mount for the Yak Gadget quick anchor, and got a 6' Yak Attack Park n Pole. I have the 8' one,...

After working a few days without any days off, I was able to get one night off, so I went fishing. I just spotted a grass carp lurking in the muddy water, when something caught my eye to my left. ...

I've been using TMC 2457 in the past, but have slowly been switching to Mustad C068. I haven't had any carp straighten one out yet. The Mustad hook is offset, if you can live with that. I've been...

Nice grassy Dave! What kind of hook did you use to keep the grassy on?

Our fishing was slow again in SE Nebraska due to the storms that came in. Here are a few videos of sight-fished carp where the take was caught on video. I do the videos mainly as a video journal...

That's a healthy one!

@FishnDave As long as you keep tension on the line, fish aren't coming off...unless you're like me trying to horse them in. I've slowly been switching from TMC 2457 which are expensive, to Mustad...

@lastchance I believe it did. The only thing I did was take hook out. Otherwise, it stayed in the net and in the water.

@Whitewolf Thanks. I do the videos more as a video journal for myself. But truth be told the more memorable times of my fishing are the times I lost fish. Wish I could rewind back the time, to do...

@qqualls It's a great fly! I've taken bass, bluegill, and crappie with it. Our top producing color combos are yellow chenille body/wht round rubber legs & black chenille body/wht rubber legs. The...

Bully's Bluegill Spiders in blk body/wht legs or yel body/wht legs

@Clay Have you ever tried a Bully's Bluegill Spider?
It's relatively weedless. Whenn I do get weeds/gunk on the fly, 1or 2 false casts is usually all it takes to get the stuff off. Then you have...

@Clay Are you fishing from bank or by boat/kayak? We have the same problem in a man made lake here in NE. What we do is wade & get our cast past the weeds, focusing on the weed edges. Other thing...

@FishnDave Thanks. Only good thing about this bad weather, is catching up on tying flies to replace the ones I donated to snags & prepping gear.

With the storms we've had, it gave me a chance to catch up on videos.

First is a 37" grass carp I was lucky enough to land. I was casting at a decent grassie against the bank. At the beginning of...