Try egg fly's they work big time, if u can get some small pom poms tiny ones in a arts and crafts shop slide a goldhead bead on first then add a drop of superglue and then thread your pom pom up the hook..Asize 10 grub hook is about the biggest i would go.The gold head just adds weight, help get the fly down, u needn't retrieve it just throw it in front of a cruising fish and watch the line shoot away..
Regards
Denis Goulding
From: "sofla_flyfisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [VFB] Carp & Bonefish - Pondering Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:11:16 -0500
Gary, I just read that, my "carp on the fly" book came today (which probably kicked off the ramblings). Darn, and I thought I had a semi-original thought!
Denis - Unfortunately that was just 100% pure, working to many hours, not catching enough fish, me. No other excuses!
Ken (BC) - yes, it did hurt my head!
Jimi - I'm still trying to figure out what they preferred. I wasn't ready for carp that day. I had been fishing the saltwater flats with a friend all morning (caught some barracuda & some jack crevalle) and we decided to try one of the "almost never miss" peacock bass lakes. Unfortunately, it missed. But there were a bunch of carp in there. They were tailing, mudding & cruising around. I was sight casting to them but they weren't taking my fly. On an encouraging note, my casts didn't send them running. Couldn't find a saltwater fly they liked and they didn't seem to see an unweighted wooly bugger. Also, these were common carp, and I've been prepping for grass carp, don't know how much difference it will make. The fly I'm tying for the swap is an olive marabou clouser. It looks very "veggie" for the grass carp.
Ken
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