Fly Fishing For Carp (Directory)

Read The Story The Carp Addiction What is it about carp that turns respectable trout fishermen into brownliners. Is it the demand for precise casting and the detection of subtle takes telegraphed by body language?

Read The Story Gear Up For Carp! I talk constantly about the strategies and tactics surrounding carp fishing. I do this because there is so much to talk about, yet so much poor advice and misinformation blowing around. I get so carried away with water levels and fish behavior that I tend to ignore the basics…

Read The Story The Best Flies for Carp Carp will take all manner of flies depending on the availability of food sources. At times dry flies imitating mayflies or midges or terrestrials are the ticket. Other times it's subsurface patterns including streamers, nymphs and crustaceans...


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Read The Story 30 Tips to Make You a Better Carp Angler A large part of becoming a successful Carp fisherman has to do with being properly prepared and making the right decisions. When someone says “I’m doing everything right but I’m still not catching these fish” our response is you’ve missed something in the planning or execution. We’ve summarized a simple but detailed list of 30 little things that count...

 Read The Story Small Carp, Small Water (Best Bet, for now!) The best bet, that is, if you are a carp fisherman. If not, well...go have fun with your trout. I hear the rainbows spawn this time of year. Get yourself some plastic beads and toothpicks and find the nearest redds...

Read The Story Take Your Medicine Yes, it has been agreed upon...Colorado is beautiful and it is great to live here. But most of us still have to spend the vast majority of our time locked away indoors. Stuck behind a computer or in a cell-like cubicle. Even us in the fly fishing industry...

Read The Story Grassies on Demand (Fly Fishing for Grass Carp!) I made the comment last fall that I would love to get some big grass carp on film. Don Bousquet said, “I got the spot.”
Oh yeah? Big grassies on demand? They ain’t easy ya know…
“Yeah, whatever,” Don assured me. “I’ll call you in the spring.”

Read The Story The Chironomid Solution Rarely will you hear midges or chironomids brought up in a conversation about carp fishing. It is well known among carp fishermen that these fish are willing to eat just about anything. This is why they can survive almost anywhere and be hard to take advantage of. I prefer to use carp flies that mimic larger prey, such as crayfish and leeches. This choice in fly selection has to do a lot with my approach to carp fishing. I like to cover as much water as possible...

Read The Story Rainy Day Carp Rainy day carp don't eat, they just watch ‘till they've seen all the flies you've got. (No...wait, that’s not how the Gordon Lightfoot lyrics go.) Sometimes carp will take a fly even in the least likely conditions. You just never know. If fishing in the rain is your only option, then ya gotta do what ya gotta do...

Read The Story Carpin' From A Canoe They say if you start a small business or build a house together it will either destroy a relationship or make it unbreakable. True. And I would like to add fly fishing for carp from a canoe to that list. 

Read The Story Skinny Water Carp (Late Season) As a fly fisherman I look forward to Autumn. Not because the aspens are changing up the canyon, or the Kokanee or the big browns running up the Dream Stream...

Cottonwood Seed flies for top water carp!

June 18th! This is the time of year for the cottonwood drop. The white, fluffy seed pods have been floating around for a couple of weeks now.