tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48430986040801627962024-02-22T13:45:08.641-08:00Fly-CarpinFly Fishing For Carp - Long Live The Revolutiontestflycarpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01438987908906957352noreply@blogger.comBlogger390125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843098604080162796.post-24913511606552083542021-09-25T13:21:00.002-07:002021-09-25T13:21:27.055-07:00Kayak Fly Podcast<p> I was recently invited to join the <a href="https://kayakflyer.libsyn.com/" target="_blank">Kayak Fly</a> podcast for an hour. We talked a fair amount about 3D Fly Reels - and a whole lot about carpin. I am and will always be a carper first and foremost!</p><p>You can listen to the podcast via the embedded player below or on Youtube:</p><p><br /></p>
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Between me and some carping buddies such as John Montana, Wendy Berrell and Dan Frasier we have caught well over 500 carp on various iterations of this reel and a good number (40?) of those have been over 20lbs. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhreeu-TH6_V6TLkFLQzW_O8rQeXm8AjfeYPtNe_VbCqmHFv5UiIWBknPpgl0uW8QM9dRQUwF3JSdEA0if2u5Pf-MNM15vtQ6r_S8aIHggj-wXHId2c_qtko4JG9VwwM1Hjh_YKrJn2u9c/s2048/DarkCherryView0.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhreeu-TH6_V6TLkFLQzW_O8rQeXm8AjfeYPtNe_VbCqmHFv5UiIWBknPpgl0uW8QM9dRQUwF3JSdEA0if2u5Pf-MNM15vtQ6r_S8aIHggj-wXHId2c_qtko4JG9VwwM1Hjh_YKrJn2u9c/s320/DarkCherryView0.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYU1ALCZy87ZZD6TZwLtIFqc6SsqSi4fXJY1ZJBASq8HDHVodvYBBSECNItmaVxGLC4tYtfGumqFVWNWkz7U9_I9U1kYQleH5VwUzj1fq_E-8HzrLOmA6yw7f5KAwoBVbXXS1vbT23ul4/s2048/DarkCherryView1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYU1ALCZy87ZZD6TZwLtIFqc6SsqSi4fXJY1ZJBASq8HDHVodvYBBSECNItmaVxGLC4tYtfGumqFVWNWkz7U9_I9U1kYQleH5VwUzj1fq_E-8HzrLOmA6yw7f5KAwoBVbXXS1vbT23ul4/s320/DarkCherryView1.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ol4UnLICqmrghDf73sMRlOnh-QyxuxbDvYR1vyh6Pcb6Xf3dSTWjJ75VnyJutXCj_Tak3_KpmCpCcTK1juNVzd9SaVjYkLsoG4uOoIR9rqO28cE-W5qAQZKZ5I3cFySyZYD0r9FqvAE/s2048/DarkCherryView3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2020" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ol4UnLICqmrghDf73sMRlOnh-QyxuxbDvYR1vyh6Pcb6Xf3dSTWjJ75VnyJutXCj_Tak3_KpmCpCcTK1juNVzd9SaVjYkLsoG4uOoIR9rqO28cE-W5qAQZKZ5I3cFySyZYD0r9FqvAE/s320/DarkCherryView3.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJAciCw7XpC1AKVI00wbl7_4ysM3lQkmSsU2kcW9znU4lREucDImQ7gm7yIHbdWaizOXap1P8pw6u0-R2TDND5N8xazPMH51dv5f5HNULLA23uEwnYc9ZUgKVQuWT_eMl5hp3-FJb97U8/s2048/DarkCherryView4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2041" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJAciCw7XpC1AKVI00wbl7_4ysM3lQkmSsU2kcW9znU4lREucDImQ7gm7yIHbdWaizOXap1P8pw6u0-R2TDND5N8xazPMH51dv5f5HNULLA23uEwnYc9ZUgKVQuWT_eMl5hp3-FJb97U8/s320/DarkCherryView4.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhteDwmuXj_gyfUIOiKW6LDllIUO_ULVrOI2-O0x9t11ejxar8f0hTnj8kEN_uwBKsl7KviSUme9Mf1YtiOr0mB8bu2ZqBWg1sJlcS-W5_cQNxZnuuQ4Lg1mgUE_OeqoM1J_kGG0zOefDs/s2048/DarkCherryView6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhteDwmuXj_gyfUIOiKW6LDllIUO_ULVrOI2-O0x9t11ejxar8f0hTnj8kEN_uwBKsl7KviSUme9Mf1YtiOr0mB8bu2ZqBWg1sJlcS-W5_cQNxZnuuQ4Lg1mgUE_OeqoM1J_kGG0zOefDs/s320/DarkCherryView6.JPG" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
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www.flycarpin.com</div>testflycarpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01438987908906957352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843098604080162796.post-6604619061013586042018-04-29T15:14:00.000-07:002018-04-29T15:14:38.483-07:00The Fishermen's Spot Carp Town HallLets talk carp!!!!<br />
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I will be at <a href="http://fsflyfishing.com/">Fishermen's Spot Flyshop</a> in the LA area on Saturday May 5th 2018 with <a href="https://alquattrocchi.wordpress.com/">Al Quattrocchi</a> and Dustin Sergent. <br />
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If you are coming do me a favor. Leave a comment or two. Let us know what you would like to hear and what you would like to see.<br />
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www.flycarpin.com</div>testflycarpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01438987908906957352noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843098604080162796.post-9050329455505449822018-04-22T17:58:00.002-07:002018-05-04T23:09:13.251-07:00Fly-Carpin KeychainsI am starting a small 3D printing service (<a href="https://www.3dhubs.com/service/168292">The 3D Press</a>) for fun and profit on a site called 3D Hubs. In order to start get going I am going to have to start small....VERY small. The site won't really send you orders until you have had some orders. Additionally I will need to learn the process.<br />
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Therefore I am going to ask for some help from friends, family and fans of Fly-Carpin. For those who are interested I will be offering a limited edition run of the following key-chain:<br />
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<strike>The first 20 people that download this file: Offer is over!</strike><br />
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<strike>Will get it for $1.00 plus shipping and handling (~Cost). After the first 20 it will default to the standard pricing which will be ~$15 to ~$20 dollars. Tiny low-volume low-margin widgets is not exactly the market I will be chasing you see.</strike><br />
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www.flycarpin.com</div>testflycarpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01438987908906957352noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843098604080162796.post-621531834023544662017-02-11T20:34:00.000-08:002017-02-11T22:45:06.208-08:00CLOPS Sports Cam and the death of Fly-CarpinYou may have noticed that Fly-Carpin essentially died a couple of years ago - or maybe not. It is easier to notice the existence of a thing on the internet than it's absence. Either way I would like to tell you the story.<br />
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When, in 2014, I tried to make the Carp On The Fly On The SUP videos I found the process extremely frustrating. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't generate Go-Pro first person view (FPV) video that wasn't shaky to the point of vomitville and I felt like it interfered with my creativity. </div>
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While researching solutions I ran into something called a brushless gimbal. A brushless gimbal is a mechanism that uses three brushless motors to stabilize a camera. At the time they were mainly used for drones, professional videography and for hand-held Go-Pro stabilizers. I immediately decided that I would try and build one small enough and light enough that I could mount it on my head like a GoPro FPV camera.</div>
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Four months later I had a solid proof of concept micro gimbal which I code-named Cyclops 1.0. It had issues. Lots of issues. It had wires hanging everywhere. It had to be re-started ~ every 20 minutes for a dozen different reasons and would break completely every couple of days and had a dozen other issues that just added up to a total pain in the butt. When it did work, however, it worked GREAT and it could do stuff like this with almost perfect stabilization:</div>
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At the time I had dreams of taking this idea and doing something big with it, but first I wanted to make sure it was really viable. You know, make sure that I could get it working "good enough". </div>
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Well, something funny happened. Version 1.1 was worse in almost every way and Version 1.2 was a massive failure and I was still a family man with a day job, a fishing addiction and a blog and a major case of burnout. The family, the job and the fishing aren't optional, so I ended up having to take a break from project Cyclops AND Fly-Carpin. </div>
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The cliff usually starts with smaller ponds and lakes which tend to cool faster and within the span of a few short weeks works it's way up to the larger reservoirs. Additionally, at about the same time the carp in the Denver South Platte often go into a funky mood where they stop eating. The cliff is so abrupt and harsh that my catch rates plummet which leads to depression and anxiety. Uncool cliff. Uncool.<br />
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Based on averages over the past 6 years, I expect to catch roughly 1/3 to 1/4 of the carp in the fall as I did in the summer.<br />
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This year however, I see signs of the cliff but I am still finding some prime fishing this September. For example, I had one day recently were I caught 16 carp in about 4 hours on a small lake which is close to my highest catch rate over a 4 hour span ever. On another day I caught my first ever goldfish.<br />
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And just a week later I caught this 24lb common from my SUP which is my new personal best in Colorado.<br />
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And just a few days later the Carp Slam broke records for the most carp caught in the tournament. Even I managed to wrangle two to the net.<br />
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Get a partner for this two-man team, carp on the fly tournament! Angler teams will meet at the Roo Bar at 9am to assemble, ready to fish. At 9:30, teams will leave for any destination(s) they choose in the metro area, including stillwaters and the fabled S. Platte!<br />Carp will be measured and photographed to count. You will be given a tape measure and a secret item to include in each photo. Total length will decide your placing. Additional prize for biggest carp caught! Teams must return by 2:30pm or be subject to penalty.<br />$50 entry per team, top three placings paid, plus a bonus payout for biggest carp caught!</blockquote>
The facebook event listing is here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/391478201057564/">https://www.facebook.com/events/391478201057564/ </a><br />
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Wallflowers are carp that are either resting or actively feeding during the spawn and they can often be found just on the edge of, or outside of, the main spawn. These are positive fish and can be extremely good targets! Just don't get sucked in by the fast cruisers and active spawners - its a rookie mistake.<br />
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<b>1) Don't Settle For Chocolate Milk</b>: If you are trying to catch carp in really muddy water and having difficulty, the first step may be to look for the clearest water you can find. That may sound like a cop-out, and it is to a certain degree, but bear with me for a bit.</div>
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The first thing to realize is that if you are fishing big water, water clarity can vary dramatically in the same body of water. The location of the inlet, the wind direction, local vegetation and local bottom composition all change local water clarity to a certain degree. If you spend the time to explore your water and pay close attention I think you will be surprised how different the next bay over can be.</div>
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<b>2) Fly Color:</b> In dirty water I tend to prefer black flies. <a href="http://www.flycarpin.com/2014/07/carp-fly-colors-black-is-new-black.html">Or black</a>. I hear black works as well. It turns out that if there is any light penetration at all the color black is one of the easiest colors for carp to see in dirty water because it creates contrast. </div>
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<b>Location</b>: <span style="font-family: inherit;">Fleetwood, Pennsylvania</span><br />
<b>Website</b>: <a href="http://www.skyblueoutfitters.com/">http://www.skyblueoutfitters.com</a><br />
<b>Waters</b>: <span style="font-family: inherit;">Susquehanna River and tributaries</span><br />
<b>Other Species</b>: <span style="font-family: inherit;">Trout, Smallmouth Bass, Pike</span><br />
<b>About</b>: <span style="font-family: inherit;">"Located in Pennsylvania among legendary trout and bass waters an often overlooked and epic carp fishery is gaining ground. Nick Raftas of Sky Blue Outfitters guides for carp in the heart of beautiful Amish country in southeastern Pennsylvania, where carp grow to epic proportions in lowland rivers and creeks."</span><br />
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I heard some intel from a local carper today that I just have to make a stand on though. Evidently some new recruits to the Denver cell of the Revolution have been overheard spouting the following nonsense: "If you can't make them eat it, make 'em wear it".<br />
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Perhaps it is a joke, but it was described to me as real intent. I don't know about you but I just threw up in my mouth. <br />
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So, lets just go on ahead and lay down Fly-Carpin's first ground-rule for non-poser membership in the Fly Fishing for Carp Revolution:<br />
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I guarantee you that I have 100% concurrence from every single hard core carper who has spent significant time perfecting the art of getting them to eat. If you are snagging carp on purpose, and you think that you are accomplishing something...well you aren't doing what I do.<br />
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So, to be clear, if you want to do what I do. If you want to do what anybody who truly has a passion for fly fishing for carp does. If you really want to take on the challenge, then repeat after me:<br />
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Period. End of story. Non-negotiable. That is not to say that you will not snag the occasional carp on accident. It happens to everybody, but it is nothing to be proud of. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
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Until sometime in the past five years or so even the most hard core of us fly carpers would put aside dreams of big lips and gold scales in the winter. No longer. Nowadays, many of us from all across the country treat fly fishing for common carp as a year round endeavor. It turns out that because of their amazing temperature range, carp are one of the most viable winter fly fishing species not named Trout! </div>
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The first key is to just believe that it is possible. I can't stress enough how important faith is. If you don't believe, you won't commit. Chasing carp in the winter may be viable, but it is not necessarily always easy. Commitment gets you past the steep part of the learning curve, when it will often seem like it just isn't going to work. </div>
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I know, I know, the requisite level of faith can be hard to come by. After all, fly fishers as a society have thought of carp as a warm-water species for a long time. Well, they are not. Because they have the widest temperature tolerance range of any North American freshwater sport-fish they defy shallow labels such as "warm-water" or "cool water". Common carp are whatever they need to be, which is why they have managed to populate nearly every puddle of water below 7,000 feet in the nation. </div>
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<li>I have personally caught a carp while it was snowing. I know of several people who have done the same.</li>
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Most of my winter carp on the fly happens on the Denver South Platte River for two reasons. First of all, most of the still-waters freeze in the Winter around here. Second of all, even when they don't, it is much more rare to find an active winter carp in still-water than running water. </div>
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It seems as though carp in still-waters can huddle up on the bottom and essentially hibernate. In rivers though, they have to swim, and if they gotta swim they gotta eat!! As a matter of fact, in the most productive areas of the Denver South Platte they actually put on weight during the winter. Lots of weight. Several pounds at least.</div>
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They only have about 10 spots left as I publish this so better hurry and sign up....details <a href="http://www.themidwest-drift.com/blog-1/2015/1/12/introducing-the-inaugural-tmd-carp-fly-swap">HERE</a>!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
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Next came the age of blogs. <a href="http://carponthefly.blogspot.com/">Carp On The Fly</a>, <a href="http://www.roughfisher.com/">Roughfisher</a>, <a href="http://themrpblog.blogspot.com/">Mr P's Blog</a>, and <a href="http://coloradoflyfishingreports.blogspot.com/">Colorado Fishing Reports</a> to name just a few. These institutions turned fly fishing for carp from an oddity into a full blown counter-culture.</div>
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Through it all we have learned and evolved, and we have done so to the point where I would argue that fly fishing for carp has, to a certain degree, come of age. We have our own unique techniques and styles that set us apart from all other species. We have an extremely wide variety of the most innovative flies in flydom. We have our own language. We have our own traditions.</div>
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And now, courtesy of Dan Frasier, we have what may very well be our New Testament. This, the first of two major new carp fly books this spring, brings new concepts and ideas but also builds upon all that has come before. Its a book that not only gathers all the best carp flies into one massive tome, but also does a great job capturing all that knowledge we have gained since Carp On The Fly. </div>
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Sorry fellas, I know that some will be extremely disappointed, and believe me I am bummed in a certain way too. It is pretty rare that out of a bazzilion people you can legitimately sit back and say "I had the best freakin xxx on the entire world freakin web" about anything, but nothing lasts for ever.
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Orvis-Beginners-Guide-Carp-Flies/dp/1629144630" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfaYWsdpGak6w6FpFtjQL0t5XLBATAd55vhi4oYvhPTqB88j0O2x6-4Sul18hnqSKGzmnWpaey8SYfcCAyC7co_UBLgs_xcO4YeIlUkrU8ntbAyFlKchGuBj4KjHgw-G0AI81JZ-i55fM/s1600/101_Carp_Flies_Cover.jpg" height="150" width="101" /></a>In this, Fly-Carpin's first ever guest post, we are going to hear from Dan Frasier on his favorite dry fly for carp. Dan, the fly fishing editor at <a href="http://carppro.net/">CarpPro.net</a>, is a heck of a writer, better fly-carper and even better friend. His first book <span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; line-height: 1.3;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Orvis-Beginners-Guide-Carp-Flies/dp/1629144630" target="_blank">The Orvis Beginner's Guide to Carp Flies</a>" </b>is currently available for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Orvis-Beginners-Guide-Carp-Flies/dp/1629144630" target="_blank">pre-order</a> at amazon.com and will start shipping late January. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You came to the stream expecting to dredge a couple of nymphs in the deepest holes and pound up a few trout. That's what works most of the time: getting deep and feeding the fish what they are eating. But as you pushed your way through the brush downstream of the slow moving pool you see that today is different. Today the fish are up and eating. Gently picking tiny sailboats off of the surface. Great pods of torpedoes are casually assaulting the armada of mayflies as they make a break for the tail-out of the pool and safety. This isn't what you expected. You thought you'd be blind-casting to deep water. So you get out of the stream and head upstream, looking for trout that are holding deep like you thought they would. Right? That's how you would approach this situation? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course you wouldn't. Finding trout, carp, or any fish for that matter, actively feeding on the surface is something to be cherished. You'd snap into fly fisherman detective mode, the one we're all constantly trying improve, and look for what bugs were on the surface. You'd tie on the nearest imitation you have and get stealthy. You'd have to contain your excitement at the prospect of catching fish on floating flies for the rest of the evening. Why is it, then, that we react so totally differently when we encounter surface feeding carp? Anglers walk away, looking for tailers. Or they tie on a crayfish and cast it at the pod of rising carp. At best they stumble over themselves looking for a big hopper pattern without knowing if hoppers are even on the menu.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In a sense I’m lucky that I </span>didn't<span style="font-family: inherit;"> know anything when I first attempted to catch carp on the fly. I carried no preconceived notions, and was immune to the idea that there was a right way to do this and everyone else knew it. Instead I had to figure it out on my own. Don’t get me wrong, I went to the resources available and read and studied them, but they were all trout focused. So there was very little specific information available about carp, but there was a lot written about how to approach and evaluate a fishing situation. That’s the information that proved invaluable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In my book, The Orvis Beginners Guide to Carp Flies; 101 Patterns & How and When to Use Them, it took thirteen patterns to scratch the surface (pun absolutely intended) of the dry flies a carp fly fishermen should be carrying. Carp rise to a variety of different floating food organisms, and like any fly fishing, a good angler will spend a little time looking and listening and figuring out what the carp are eating. After they have an idea of the forage, they will try to imitate it, and only then will they feel confident in their fly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok, got it. Match the hatch. But what happens when you can’t tell what the fish are eating? Simple, do what you would for trout. Tie on a generic confidence pattern and start there. Get smaller if it’s getting refused and worry most about your presentation. For me, that confidence fly for carp is a size 14 Parachute Adams. The low profile allows the fly to float low in the film, making it easier for the carp to eat with their oddly shaped mouths. Additionally, the Adams is a good generalist pattern, imitating many possible bugs that the carp might be picking off of the surface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Using an Adams allowed me to catch nearly a third of all my carp last year on dryflies. If you’re keeping track at home, that means a third of my carp were on dries, a third on nymphs and a third tailing to crayfish or other larger organisms. Not a bad split and a good way to keep things interesting when you approach your carp water.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
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Well, I was going through my log last week and figured out that it only took one year for the Chubby Chaser to become my second most productive carp fly ever! I caught more carp on it this year than I ever have on a single fly pattern in a single year before - by a wide margin. I therefore declare the Chubby Chaser Leech my MVF (Most Valuable Fly) of 2014. It is probably the name. Must be the name. <br />
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I would have never guessed that this fly would work as well as it has. It worked in ponds, the Denver South Platte, big lakes and little lakes. It worked in the Spring, Summer and Fall and has been ridiculously effective in the Winter. I caught tailers, shoppers, cruisers and even sunners (on a lightly weighted version). I caught carp varying from aggressive to ultra passive. I caught big carp, little carp, medium carp and mutant carp on it. It fooled carp in clear water and absolutely destroyed them in dirty water. Essentially, what I am saying is that it seems to be a shockingly flexible carp fly that works across a wide range of scenarios. <br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The finale to Carp On The Fly On The SUP is finally up on Youtube. It took so long because I wanted to get this one just right - and I am extremely happy with it. I really wanted to try and get across how it FEELS to catch carp on the fly. How did I do?</span><br />
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Nevertheless I need to write about this November. I need to write in order to remember. To remember the differences.<div>
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You see, after you have done this long enough, carpin is like the movie Groundhog Day. Everything repeats over and over, except everything is actually just a little different every time. If you look hard enough you find that every single year is different. Every month, every day and every single carp is different. <div>
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This carp was resting with three others 15 feet from the bank in the back eddy of a small seam in 8" of water. It was the smallest of the bunch, but because it was between me and it's bigger brethren it was the best shot. Nothing new, except I had never seen a single carp in this section of river. Evidently construction had driven a well-know pod of carp downstream from their normal holding water. </div>
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That is not all that was different though. As usual I presented the fly with a drag and drop. The current was a little more energetic than I expected though, and the fly ended up landing a good 6" upstream of where I wanted it. Then things got a little crazy as this carp charged the fly with summer-like vigor as soon as it hit bottom. That is certainly unusual in November, but to my surprise she somehow changed her mind and put on the breaks. I usually avoid the term he or she for carp - but this was clearly a she. Changing her mind is, after all, a females prerogative. </div>
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And this is where <b>everything</b> is different. Just a year ago I would have stripped the fly, or twitched the fly, or wiggled the fly. I would have somethinged the fly in a desperate attempt to re-capture the magic. I would have failed. This time I just left the fly (a Chubby Chaser Leech) sitting there on the bottom, tail up and gently wiggling in the current. A split second passed, and then another and finally an eternity as she held in position and carefully inspected my fly. Then my fly just disappeared. </div>
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This carp above was circulating in a clear pool. I must have presented the same fly to it 15 times. On the sixteenth it just swam through the fly and ate it so quickly and subtly that if I didn't see the fly go in it's mouth I would have never known.</div>
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This one was tailing in inches of water in a sewer outlet where I have never seen a carp. The carp was so shallow that when it charged it threw a wake. Feeding all those crazy primordial belly scales must make it hungry.</div>
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I was blind jigging my fly a couple of inches off the bottom in a deep run next to the bank as a steady stream of carp swam by. I never saw the take, or the carp for that matter, but it actually worked and my line just came tight.</div>
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As much as everything is the same, it is always different. I will remember.</div>
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www.flycarpin.com</div>testflycarpinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01438987908906957352noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843098604080162796.post-83645806445944646622014-10-17T17:00:00.001-07:002014-10-26T18:57:52.219-07:00Fly Fishing For Carp Survey Results: Carpin's Dirty Little Secret<span style="font-family: inherit;">Fly fishing for carp has a dirty little secret. I am willing to share that secret but you gotta promise to keep it between us OK? Actually, I change my mind. Please share the hell out of this because I think it could really help people new to the game gain critical perspective.<br /><br />The secret is this: <b>It turns out that you don't have to cast very far to catch carp</b>. As matter of fact it turns out you barely need to be able to cast at all - at least in the traditional sense. I bet some of you don't believe me, but that is OK because I come armed with data! <br /><br />The following graph charts the distances where the 200+ respondents to our recent fly fishing for carp survey catch the most carp. Well over 50 percent of the respondents <a href="http://www.flycarpin.com/search/label/Fly%20Fishing%20For%20Carp%20Survey%202014">fly fishing for carp survey</a> catch most of their carp at less than 20 feet. Almost 90 percent of the participants catch most of their carp at less than 40 feet. Most shocking of all perhaps, about 17 percent of them catch most of their carp at dapping range!!!!!</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span>
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