Carp fly fishing!!

[Mistaflyboy34]

Hello OFC so I've been hearing a lot about carp fly fishing and before the salmon run starts I'd like to get some carp fly fishing in. It would be amazing if you can tell me some local spots.

[Mistaflyboy34]

Ohh i forget to add that I live in the gta

[Christopheraaron]

Lots of places around the gta, try chumming an area around harbourfront or the islands the day before, then throw out a crayfish fly and hang on!

[cuzza]

Lots of carp in Hamilton harbour - that's where the fish in my avatar came from on a fly, no need to chum, just go for a walk and find some

 

Fly-wise - woolly buggers and crayfish patterns as Chris suggests will do the trick. The hardest part is not spooking them with your cast.

[Christopheraaron]

Ya if you can get out to HH it's supposed to be awesome, at harbourfront you'd probably need to chum though since the fish tend to be a bit more scattered.

[bare foot wader]

if you tie your own flies you can cut/buy foam eyes, often called booby eyes....one of my favourite carp flies is a foam eye on a dry fly hook or wide gap finese hook, and then a clump of maraboo, that's it, quick easy and cheap.....it's a visual strike which is less boring and not as easy to miss as a carp on a nymph...and you can literally just let it sit there for minutes on end and the maraboo will move with the slightest current....it's my fly fishing solution to carp rising to floating bread, works amazing...wading and sight casting when you find a pod of carp, cast about 20' ahead and just let it sit there, as they work their way feeding towards the fly, works great

 

can't post with photobucket right now, but here is a link to a booby example

 

http://www.kamfly.com/index.php/fly-fishing-articles/20-fishing-with-booby-flies

Edited July 18, 2013 by bare foot wader

[Mistaflyboy34]

Great tips thanks!

[Rich]

My dad used to say to everyone "any fly will catch a carp" and sure enough when he went fly fishing he'd close his eyes and grab any fly in the box...... Then wrap it in pillsbury crescent roll dough, sit and wait. Yeah. Dad never really understood fly fishing.

[azebra]

just about every river, you can targer redhorse in rivers as well, like carp, they wont move more then 4 inches for a fly, so... and old on, I have heard of 40+ min fights