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Welcome to the Bungle.
Carp demand patience. They require a thoughtful plan and a deliberate approach. To do otherwise is to muck it up. Blow your shots. Fail. Yesterday I did otherwise. Summer has shriveled the flats, but...
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"Dealing with the lumber." or "In the lumber, dealing."
The scenario today was this - several carp milling around in the back end of this small pocket off of the main lake. Not much wider than my canoe and both banks littered with downed brush (or lumber as...
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Patterns.
The carp have (mostly) moved off of the flats over the past few weeks and are oriented to areas where they have immediate access to deep water. Initially I thought a spate of...
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Carp Nation – State of the Confederacy (This is Georgia. We don’t use the...
That rumble you hear in the distance is the burgeoning growth of Carp Nation. Lots of good stuff going on out there. To wit: There are a couple of noteworthy conversations going on right now in the...
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My carp runneth over
....and darn near spooled me. This dude had some starch in his shorts and just about scorched the reel off of that 5 weight. Nice. Several significant rain events over the past couple of weeks have...
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Podcast!
The newest podcast from Dan Frasier over at Carp Pro is out. Interviews with Barry Reynolds, Trevor Tanner, and Ty Clifton; the Chance in Hell feature; fishing reports. This is "can't miss" stuff....
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Our man in Michigan. With the pink butterfly net.
Just received the latest report from Miles. The season up north continues to go well, if the beast above is any indication. Apparently this was the second fish from this particular trip. Miles lost...
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I have the plan, but not the stones.
There is a somewhat seedy little amusement park not far from here with name of Lake Winnepesaukah. Supposedly the name is derived from a Native American word for beautiful or bountiful water. Locals...
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Good to the last dropper.
Educational weekend on the carp front. -I spent much of my time experimenting with a dry and dropper rig, specifically a hare's ear dropped from a Turck's Tarantula. I have been thinking alot about...
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Hare's ear hammered.
Another victim of the hare's ear dropper. Took the dry/dropper combo back to the carp today and hammered them. One of my best days of the year in terms of sheer numbers. The dry fly adds a visual cue...
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Rising up.
Probably running this dropper/dry deal into the ground here, but its effectiveness continues to amaze. Yesterday I put the dropper on a carp cruising in 2 - 3 feet of water. The hare's ear was only...
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Relatively painless move to new domain.
I just moved this pile of drivel from the old blogspot URL to our new address at www.finewaterflyfishing.com. The old URL will redirect to this new one, but I figured I should communicate the change....
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Carp pockets.
View from the main lake. In the pocket. Small pockets off of the main body of the reservoir here nearly always hold good numbers of carp. The pocket pictured above is especially productive and has...
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CarpPro Podcast Number 3 is up!
Excellent interview with Barry Reynolds on fly selection for carp. Doesn't matter what you're fishing for though. His advice for selecting flies in different situations will help any angler. Check it...
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Cloopers. Elk Hair Caddis. Fail.
Last weekend I found a pod of carp rising to the same seeds I saw on the water a few weeks ago in this previous post. (A little research revealed that these are probably seeds from the sweetgum tree,...
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It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas (if Christmas came in June)
70 degrees today. Amazing. Warm weather this time of year always feels weird. I mean, everything looks like winter. The trees are mostly bare. The sun follows a low arc during the course of the day....
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Epicnicity.
Mr. P put a great post up about the December issue of USCARPPRO magazine coming out in a few days. This issue will be flyfishing-centric and promises to be epic. Check out Mr. P's post right here. Then...
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Even more epic-er than I thought
I knew that the fly fishing issue of USCARPPRO magazine would be really good, but I am, to be honest, stunned at the variety and extreme quality of the content. Here's the table of contents: Wow. I'm...
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Winding down. Maybe.
Northwest Georgia received a significant amount of rain this weekend, around 2 inches by some counts. Multi-day rain events around here often bring the carp up into the shallows. No news there, of...
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