I’ve caught lots of common carp before, but never any grassies. Until today.
Caught 4, lost two, broke off one. Good day. Nothing huge, but I’ll take it.
What is your technique? What fly? Give us the 411, please!
Okay, I cheated a little bit… I caught them on a bread fly. Bleached deer hair spun and packed. I tried some grass flies at first, and got some looks, but no solid takes. My color was a little off from the grass around the pond I think.
So I ran home real quick and grabbed some bread and chummed a little (does that make me a bad fly fisherman?) and that was the ticket.
Did you catch them on the feed or just blind fishing?
Bob
I was sight fishing. When I first arrived, I could see the fish but they weren’t really feeding. So I tossed some grass clipping in the pond, and they started feeding on those, but by fly didn’t exactly match. So that’s when I switched to the bread and was able to catch them feeding on that.
regardless of method it looked like fun to me.
I’ve tied up some flies for them, but have never attached one to my fly line. When I see grass carp, they usually see me, and the best I can do is spook them! I REALLY wanna hook into one!
Good job getting a hook in some! 
after you have spooked them, find a place to sit. in a half an hour or so they should return near the same spot. cast about two feet in front of your target & let the fly sink. twitch the fly as the carp closes the distance to about a foot in front of your fly. the carp will either take your fly or pass by it.
Bill
Today during lunch, I FINALLY spotted some without spooking them, and made some decent casts to several fish with a grass carp fly. Unfortunately, they didn’t seem to be eating, nor interested in eating, and pretty much ignored the fly.
I couldn’t get anything else to hit either…watched a decent catfish nudge my fly with its nose, but didn’t bite, and the bluegills wouldn’t take anything either. Finicky buggers today! :rolleyes:
I went back today with the 3 wt (had the 7 wt yesterday). Managed to catch one and missed a couple others. Unfortunately no picture, though, as the fish escaped to freedom as I was trying to get the camera ready.
A 3 wt for grass carp?? You’re livin’ life on the EDGE!
These are the fish that have broken 8wt rods! 
Still, I can see how that’d be fun if you didn’t have to worry about getting spooled (small enough pond).
I’m jealous!
I wish that we had them around here. Illegal in Wis to keep even on private ponds. I think that they would make a neat opponent.
I have taken a few carp on 2 wt fly rods; just to see if i could do it. This is a 6’6" fiberglass rod.
Bill
Nice catches! Sometimes the bread fly and a nice park pond can be a great experience. Especially when you can take the family along and instead of sit between fish, you can play with the kids!
Bill, my brother regularly uses a 6 ft 2 wt for carp. In fact, my 3 wt is my usual rod for carp unless I’m going to be in a particularly brushy area where I might need to force a fish out of the cover. As long as you’re got stout tippet, and you’re not fishing an area where you’ll really need to power the fish out, a light rod will work just fine.
you revealed my secret weapon, the 0X tippet i use when using the 2 wt. the carp pictured was taken from a river. I walked the bank as this brute took off. only after walking about 40 or 50 yards did i attempt to pull him back.
Bill
I landed a 30" carp on a 3 wt with 6x tippet. It took 52 minutes to land the fish and it was the last time that I fished for carp with that combo. While it was interesting and challenging, the struggle was tough on me and probably tougher if not deadly on the fish. While the fish was released, I doubt that it survived such a sustained battle.
I’m no tree hugger and there are a few carp in my part of the world - that’s a joke, many think that I should kill every carp caught, but I don’t think it would dent the population at all and I enjoy the battle so I release the fish, besides if I keep them I have to dispose of them legally instead of leaving them to rot and smell for others that use the area (my biggest issue with SOME bowfisherman). It’s more of a respect thing. I have come to appreciate the carp and the battle.
Rick
Did your arms fall off? 56 minutes!
Bill
Not sure if this was directed toward me or not. The fish that I caught on the 3 wt with 6X tippet was landed after 52 minutes. You just can’t put any pressure on 6X.
My arm felt like it fell off and the fish was netted when it rolled over on it side and offered no more resistance. While the fish was revived and did swim off, I’m not convinced that it survived the battle. I have landed carp on my 3 wt since, but never again on 6X. These days I much prefer one of the 7 wts as the weapon of choice and have an 8 wt available as well as a 10 wt for fishing larger fish in current.
They are all fun and while I would never tell anyone what to fish with, my own decision has been not to chase them with super light equipment any longer.