The bluegill, crappie, catfish and bass have been fun, but I want a huge carp!! Eat the fly and rip backing off my reel.
I want to see my backing!!
The bluegill, crappie, catfish and bass have been fun, but I want a huge carp!! Eat the fly and rip backing off my reel.
"Next to a healthy 10 pound carp a brook trout can look like a minnow in a clown suit"
So stop posting on the internet and go catch one! What are you waiting for?
take your fly line, remove the backing, cut 50 feet off the back end of the fly line then retie the backing on. hope this little tip helps.
Eric
"Complexity is easy; Simplicity is difficult."
Georgy Shragin
Designer of ppsh41 sub machine gun
Or... you can do like I do and clean your fly line in the kitchen sink just because you want to make sure that the backing is still there
Jim Smith
Try to hook a decent size bass and set your drag as light as possible. That works for me.
Tim
Backing?????
I just looked thru the little holes in the side of one of my reels and sure enough, the backing is there--or at least some sort of line that is different than what is on the top of the spool.
George
lol.. good un. I've landed two catfish in the ten pound class on my three weight and I ain't seen it yet.Originally Posted by Old #art
Don't know how many new "warmwater" fishermen I've told, "The next time you see your backing is when you change your fly line".
Maybe that big carp in good current. Good luck. We're pulling for you.
Last edited by HideHunter; 07-14-2010 at 12:09 AM.
"Flyfishing is not a religion. You can make up your own rules as you go.".. Jim Hatch.. 2/27/'06
the easiest way to catch carp this time of year is to find a mulberry tree that hangs over the water. tie up something purple and mulberry sized and toss it in on a long leader. carp are very good at spitting out things that aren't mulberrys so be ready to set the hook immediately on the take... if you need them to hold on for longer try soaking your fly in mulberry juice (or putting a real one on a bare hook, if you can live with yourself afterwards...I won't tell)
Wet wadin' hillbilly extraordinaire
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus
Some of it depends on the rod and the drag setting of course. I don't see my backing often these days but I am also fishing for smaller carp in streams right now. The first carp that I caught was on a 5 weight and she was huge, I could barely move her and she broke me off. The second fish that I hooked I had the drag set very lightly and that fish wanted to go into the next county by running down stream. These days I am fishing mostly with my 7 weight unless I am targeting larger fish. Larger fish get the 8 wt as standard equipment and big fish in current the 9 wt comes out. Early on in my carp fishing adventures I fished with my 3 wt and there I used light tippet to match. I landed a 30" carp on 5X tippet with my 3 weight and it took 52 minutes. I said that I would never do that to me or the fish again. That fish reminded me of a rabbit in that it ran straight away in a larger river system. I could not chase that fish down the bank. I saw my backing and thought that I was going to loose my backing and fly line when the fish turned in a circle like a kicked up rabbit and returned to it's place where it wanted to be. The other thing that took so long is that I was by myself and needed to net that fish myself. Having someone else there to assist with the netting is always a grand thing.
If you want to learn more for free listen to these two men who wrote the book (literally, the title being: Carp on the Fly)
http://www.askaboutflyfishing.com/sp.../brad/brad.cfm
http://www.askaboutflyfishing.com/sp...y-reynolds.cfm
Both audio programs are on my Ipod and I have listened to both of them often.
Thee book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1555661866?...6DP429VBFZR0ZS&
I don't want to overload this post with too much info but if you want more carp links I have over 20 in my favorites.
While I am a TU member and attend meetings and fish for trout often, no brookie pulls like a brown freight train. Even if they are not your favorite targeted species like they are mine, they will give you experience with larger fish. If you are planning a trip to Alaska to fish for large salmon and you only fish for gills or smaller trout you are missing out on a great learning experience by fishing for carp.
This picture was shot 3 days ago on a small stream, actually a classified trout stream. The net is a Brodin Coho salmon net.
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