Carp on a Fly

i'm pretty sure there has to be some spots in the area to get carp on a fly. Anyone interested in sharing a spot can pm me, if you don't want to share with everyone. I live in Natrona Heights and i've found a few in Bull Creek. Any tips and pointers are appreciated.

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i'm pretty sure there has to be some spots in the area to get carp on a fly. Anyone interested in sharing a spot can pm me, if you don't want to share with everyone. I live in Natrona Heights and i've found a few in Bull Creek. Any tips and pointers are appreciated.

It might help to find a spot where people feed the ducks bread and such and fish there afterward.
I got back into flyfishin' for carp a little this year.  Not down your way, but I've caught a few carp on the Shenango River behind a diner.  This diner has been various restaurants over the years and the food scraps that get thrown in the river there have attracted the carp----they even hang out there waiting, when the place has been closed up.  I've got a few on mostly bread and corn flies, but they would probably hit **** near anything at one point.  A pizza shop has just opened there now and the carp have become harder to catch, but got a couple a few weeks ago there.  They are likely being well feed now.  Guess I have to find a pizza crust fly or maybe a french fry fly.  I notice the carp like to come up and nip at the leaves floatin' by now too.
I haven't had any luck on carp on the fly elsewhere on the river..................yet, but I'm not much of a fly fisherman.  I got into messin' with carp on the flyrod years ago, when they feed on mulberries, fallin' from trees, in the summer, but it's past time for that around here now.
FYI, there is a local outdoor writer workin' on a carp fly fishing book that should be out eventually.

behind wildwood highlands

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ORIGINAL: orvis09

i'm pretty sure there has to be some spots in the area to get carp on a fly. Anyone interested in sharing a spot can pm me, if you don't want to share with everyone. I live in Natrona Heights and i've found a few in Bull Creek. Any tips and pointers are appreciated.

It might help to find a spot where people feed the ducks bread and such and fish there afterward.
I got back into flyfishin' for carp a little this year.  Not down your way, but I've caught a few carp on the Shenango River behind a diner.  This diner has been various restaurants over the years and the food scraps that get thrown in the river there have attracted the carp----they even hang out there waiting, when the place has been closed up.  I've got a few on mostly bread and corn flies, but they would probably hit **** near anything at one point.  A pizza shop has just opened there now and the carp have become harder to catch, but got a couple a few weeks ago there.  They are likely being well feed now.  Guess I have to find a pizza crust fly or maybe a french fry fly.  I notice the carp like to come up and nip at the leaves floatin' by now too.
I haven't had any luck on carp on the fly elsewhere on the river..................yet, but I'm not much of a fly fisherman.  I got into messin' with carp on the flyrod years ago, when they feed on mulberries, fallin' from trees, in the summer, but it's past time for that around here now.
FYI, there is a local outdoor writer workin' on a carp fly fishing book that should be out eventually.

 
Nice Mirror on a fly rod! Did you catch it on a regular fly?

Chartiers Creek.  Fishes great in Spring and Fall, and if you know the right spots, the Winter.  Have landed them on crystal meth, sucker spawn, San Juan worms, PT BH nymphs, to name a few.  Up to 15 lbs, and one mirror a few years back.

what is a "bread fly"?

personally i chase them when the are tailing in mudflats
sight casting to active feeders

ORIGINAL: KJH807

what is a "bread fly"?

 
I always thought it was like a big fluffy white glo bug.

Yep, pretty much.
Here is one place that I got some carp flies from that I am using, including the bread bundle fly I got the mirror on:
http://augustaflyfishing.com/carpflies.html
The one corn fly on there is kinda like the one Len uses, tied hair rig style, but carp fluff chuckers have been tying that fly for years.  The first time I went out this year flyfishing, I went with that local writer and he's been carpin' on da fly for 40 years, so there was no cheatin' or bastardizin' it with him, so no soaked flies.

Here's some other places that have carp specific flies:
http://www.madriveroutfitters.com/c-219-carp.aspx?pagenum=1
http://www.uncommoncarp.com/estore/category/565
http://www.yagersflies.com/carpflies.html
https://www.msu.edu/~connert/cornfly.htm

I did get that carpsucker on a mud flat.  Them **** things are hard enough to catch fishin' with real bait let alone a fly, but I got it by hook and crook!
The carp I've been getting are active surface (or subsurface) feeders, since they've been trained to take bread, fries and other food scraps.  I watched both mirrors I got inhale my fly, no more than 10 ft. from me, subsurface on a slowly sinking fly.  Learning how to fight them on my POS (compared to what real flyfishers use I'm guessing, good enough for me as much as I use it, and for stinkin' sewer salmon to boot) Martin fly outfit (6/7 wt.) has been the fun part-----I've lost as many to snags as I've landed.

nice flies in that other thread KJ. with the little fly carpin experience i have, i find it hard to believe they hit those flys.
anytime i think of feeding carp i think of them sucking bread or chips off the top of the water.

are those pulled through the water like a bugger or streamer?

hard time imagining a carp making an effort to eat something. whatever they eat is usually just floating in front of them with a lifeless drift.

I've seen that other thread before----cool pics.

Had my best day yet behind the pizza shop-----hooked four, landed three, on the corn fly; lost the first on the bread fly when it broke me off on a snag.  They were skittish about takin' da fly----plenty scoffin' at it.  There was a bunch of carp there waitin'.  Surprised I was able to get that many before they all spooked.
The guy from the pizza shop offered me some pizza crust for bait, but told him that would be too easy.  Besides I usually always have bread wit me in the truck if I wanna catch 'em normal like.  Told him I need a pizza crust or french fry fly.  I guess I could always try this goose turd fly too: http://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1544&ppuser=440 .
One of these days I'll get a carp on a "real" insect fly.
I'll have to stop in and get a pizza from that shop, since they're keeping the carp fed.



Da corn fly in da lip