It is nothing spectacular but here is a picture of the first carp I caught on a fly:




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very nice well done what did you catch it on

Veyr well done cracking fish! However I may be wrong but the mouth does not look very carpish, well not like the major strains. If I had caught it (judging by the pic) I would be counting it as a crucian or possibly a goldfish cross if they were present.

If it is a crucian even more congrats as they are like hens teeth nowadays as they cross breed readily.

Dan

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thank you guys.

i caught it on a Emerge-IT #12 fly.


As far as the definition of the breed goes, it could easily be a cross with another race.

I just started to fish those waters here and already saw several different carpish (?) breeds: Mirror carps, scale and crass carps as well as chubs.

I fish mostly at our golf club here in Turkey and the water is a river which got extended to form ponds and lakes on the golf course.

Other fish i saw are catfish, some kind of fresh-water mullet (?) and also something i could not identify: I only saw the back half of a fish of about 70 cm (~27 inches). the back looked like an eelpout but the colour was red. And even a quiet bright red. Any idea what that could have been?

Burbot perhaps??

Ignore my post about the crucian then, I was presuming you were fishing in the UK, my apologies.

Sounds like you are having a good time fishing though!! Will have to get out and try it over there at some point sounds like you have a wide range of fish ready to eat your dry flies.

Dan

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i think you guys already know that english is not my mothertonque but i thought that burbot is the same as eelpout? (latin name: Lota lota)

If it is the same, then the thing that makes me wonder is the colour that fish had. it was actually pretty close to this smilie:
maybe even a bit brighter red.

Yes, i have a good time! Thanks

I actually am fishing for a long time in Austria (where i am from) but just started out fly fishing and it became a really big passion pretty instantly.

At my last holiday in Sweden, my father showed me how to fly fish (he isn't good either) as we have a little lake with trouts.

Until my next holiday there i set my goal to learn fly fishing a bit better and therefore started out here without a big hope to catch something/a lot. But it turns out that the rivers here are fairly good but it is difficult as the banks are very crown onto and especially for a beginner a lot of trees and bushes get in the way of the fly.
(and no, unfortunately i can't get any fly fishing lessons here as the locals here have no idea what it is. )

Until now i only got the chance to fish on the golf course where i am working as the Head Professional but i heard/read that the river near Side is a good place to catch some trouts. I will head there very soon and of course report back here how it is.

If one of you guys come out here, feel free to contact me for a session or two (but don't expect me being an expert ).

Very nice fly to catch on! I will have to try one similar!