After three years of wondering, I finally got around to launching my pontoon on the little pond behind my office. After finding a concentration of little perch, my line tightened up on the carp. 5 minutes and 50 yards down the shore later, I was surprised to find he wasn't foul-hooked. He ate the same little flashy clouser that the perch were taking.
Nice little surprise. I've been seeing lots of nice carp in our local ponds this summer. I've tossed a few likely flies within range, but got not even the slightest interest. How big was this one? It's hard to tell from the pics, but looks like a pound or two. Were you fishing a lightweight rod?
Makes you wonder what a thirty pounder feels like, doesn't it? That was my problem. I went after bigger and bigger carp, until my six weights just couldn't handle it anymore
I know what carp in the low 20 lbs feel like. First time I thought I was wound up in the prop. The line was flying out. We were walleye fishing on Moses and hung two carp in the low 20's. One was about 36 inches long and streamlined and the other was about 30 inches long and built like a sumo wrestler.
Playing that little carp on my 5wt took me back to my days as a newb on the west side when I was attempting to fly fish for chum in the Skagit and lost an entire 8wt fly line to what I assume was a foul-hooked fish. The relentless pulling . . .
