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RIFLE, Colo. – As many of you already know, fly fishing for carp is easily one of my favorite springtime activities. In recent years, fly fishing for carp has become the hot, new fish in fly fishing ...
The common carp is a hard-fighting fish that can be caught on flies or spinning tackle. Submitted photo Standing on a bluff above a clear creek staring down into a large, deep pool, I wipe sweat from ...
Even so, people wrinkle their noses at the lowly carp, a species that some have nicknamed “sewer salmon.” But the warm-water fish does have a devoted and growing following among fly anglers.
"Surprisingly, Central Park is also a haven for fishing. Home to nine bodies of water, anglers can chase after several species of fish from the modest bluegill to gargantuan common carp. While the ...
They love shallow water and eat flies fairly readily. Now that carp are slowly breaking the barrier as the “cool” fish in freshwater fly-fishing, most fly shops now carry carp-specific flies. Go check ...
Today we're carp fishing using a bolt rig on the T-Turn Bait Rig. We start the day off with a nice common carp catch, and ...
Dressed in a short-sleeved shirt, long pants and sneakers, angler Dan Morgan carefully threaded his line through the eyelets of his fly rod in a parking lot next to the Old Erie Canal, just outside of ...
Today we're on the tiniest shoreline right by the road and we're baited up with corn fishing for common carp. A huge advantage is using a sliding sinker rig so the carp don't get spooked when they ...
As strategy or prediction, the comment rang true. “I could stand around and watch fish all day,” Tom Walther said from the bank of the South Platte River in downtown Denver. And during a ...
In this edition of The Evening Hatch: • Until you've experienced the sight-fishing challenge of targeting feeding carp, or trying to stop a ten-pound specimen on a blistering run with a 6-weight fly ...
An angler in Connecticut named Brian Santos recently caught a record-breaking common carp at Lake Lillinonah. The lake is located in Litchfield, Fairfield, and New Haven counties.