Grass Carp

[FishnDave]

Flyfished a “new-to-me” public pond. Caught some small bass, bluegills, green sunfish and hybrid sunfish.... and also this 28” Grass Carp, calc’d weight of 10.5 lbs. It hit a floating yellow foam bug.

[smij]

Nice fish!

[Rick Z]

Nice fish.

Rick

[iaflyfisher]

Very nice David!

[FishnDave]

Thanks, fellas! They sure are fun to catch, but also very difficult and challenging.

[Uncle Jesse]

You are right about the fun and hard to catch part. Congrats, that is a nice one I have a few around 7.5 - 8 lbs. One on a 3 wt.JLD GRASS CARP 2005-2.JPG

[FishnDave]

You are right about the fun and hard to catch part. Congrats, that is a nice one I have a few around 7.5 - 8 lbs. One on a 3 wt.Attachment 15650

That's great, Uncle Jesse! And from a float tube, no less!! I bet you had a ball with those fish!

[rwar1423]

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

[FishnDave]

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

Interesting you ask that, because I'd been thinking about that. I tied the fly, but I use a lot of different hooks. This one looks like a Mustad or Umpqua #8 hook...maybe a dry fly hook, but more likely a nymph/streamer hook. It was bent out somewhat after this catch. I've had problems with Grass Carp straightening hooks in the past. This was the smallest Grassie I've caught so far, so I was surprised how it had bent the hook.

Do you have any suggestions on hooks that are less likely to straighten?

[rwar1423]

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 trying it because of the price; $3.45 vs $9.25 for a pack of 25. Hooked one the other day on the Mustad, #12, but lost it. More than likely it was all me; lost sight of fly in muddy creek, and just felt the tug, a jump, and got off.