We use crayfish patterns up in Traverse Bay and the flats up at the northern end of the lower peninsula. You'll have to put up with smallmouths, steelies other fish beating the carp to the fly.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Junaid Hassan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] RE:Carp fishing > Hi. I'm S. Junaid Hassan replying to the carp question. Use small scud > patterns or other nymph patterns fish would grub up from the bottom. But BE > PREPARED!! Carp will break a 10 weight rod. One broke mine and my heart but > when i pulled him in by pulling the line itself, the !@#*! weighed only 6 > pounds!! I was using 12 pound tippet, but the rod got bent nevertheless and > broke. > > > > > > >From: Neville Gosling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: [VFB] RE:Carp fishing > >Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:20:49 -0800 > > > >Jimi > > > >No I didn't catch them on a fly Jimi. I fished fir carp in disused gravel > >pits and used bread, worms, breadcrust etc for bait. Did a fair amount of > >night fishing. > > > >Neville (Nev) Gosling > >Greater Vancouver, B.C. > > > > > >Neville, > > Did you ever catch Carp on a fly ? If so what recipe ? > >Jimi > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 3 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=747 4&SU= > http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_smartspampr otection_3mf >
