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Cracking fish Arf, bet that put up a fight eh.

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Interesting fly ;-)

Wow, that must have been fun. Must have been some fight.
I would love to catch a Carp on the fly rod.

B.R.

the picture doesn't do the fish any justice,we had 10 fish in all, 3 hour's on the bank,
the most fun I've had with a fly rod

Did you catch on the surface? It's very early in the year.

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it was caught at a depth of 3 feet,

floating line direct to 3 foot 6lb mono ,2 rubber maze on the back of the hook for a slow sink on the edge of a fast flow.





CARP ON A FLY ROD, ITS THE WAY FORWARD!!

ANOTHER one from today, had a couple of hour,s on the dock today with space raider (AKA singo1), and it was mental, fish going crazy with some none stop of the top action on floating dog biscuit,had quit a few low doubles and this nice little mirror, and yes i do look like the green smurf

Well done, excellent fish. I didn't know they would take off the top in winter, I thought it was only a summer thing. It looks like I'll have to target them more often from now on.

Cheers, Dave.

A mate of mine called today, to tell me he'd just had a couple of carp from his local lake....DOING IT PROPERLY!
"Real" flies without bait in winter.
Sorry to shout but if you always reach for the bait bucket you'll never learn to catch without it. Do you "chum up" trout or grayling?
If you use watercraft and a bit of stealth you can often find a carp, or two, to sight cast a real nymph infront of, even in winter...given mild conditions, like at the moment.
Before even begining to fish walk, slowly, around the lake and have real good look into any sheltered, still or shallow areas. You'll be amaized how often fish can be spotted, especially in the furthest spots from the car park, where no one can be bothered to walk to!
When the carp first hit the surface, after winter, they are at their easiest to fool on a real nymph, so don't waste the spring (winter) oportunities.
As to flies: any slow sinking pattern may be taken. I've had them on buzzers, dawl bach, hairs ear nymphs, small damsels, various spiders, tadpoles (with very light weight beads) and bloodworms (most effective by far)
One fish without bait will give you more satisfaction than 100lb of fake ones.
Dee

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