Lord Of The Fly
4/29/2011 7:39:00 AM*Oops, meant to say, "DIDN'T want them to suffer more than necessary."
fishinChristian
4/29/2011 9:31:00 AMOh, carp fly: Yellow, or worm-like, small, and add a sweet scent like corn or anise. Not strictly purist, but I've had some success with it. Good fishing.
Lord Of The Fly
4/29/2011 1:02:00 PMCool, I’ll give that a try one of these days. Up until now I guess I’ve been a purist but, meh, what’s the big deal if a guy wants to put bait or scent on a fly rod? Thanks for the tip!
DannyHoey
4/29/2011 1:09:00 PMMake yourself a fly that looks like a hunk of bread, kinda like the food pellet fly used at Rufus Woods, lol.
natetreat
4/30/2011 12:41:00 AMAt green lake, I've managed to hook a few carp on a fly that I made up out of a tuft of white stuff with a brown dot that I made to imitate the falling cotton that they were eating around my boat. Also, a cigarette butt works well. For serious. Until they bust your fly rod :(
Lord Of The Fly
4/30/2011 3:05:00 PMCigarette butts? You serious? LOL Carp must be like the Mr. Fusion power cell on the Delorean in Back to the Future II. Just add garbage. Interesting idea!
Lord Of The Fly
5/2/2011 4:01:00 PMOh and it turns out that white/peach carp we've been talking about is probably someone's Koi fish. I got it to follow my fly a couple of days agao, it came within 5 feet and wasn't spooked at all even when casting right on top of it. You can spot it some days at the south end of the lake if you have a dark background behind it and watch for a white sillouette on the water.
