Chasing Kansas Carp

[HighPlainsFlyFisher]

Had Monday off and decided to chase some carp since it turned out to be such a nice day. Had to hit probably six different bodies of water, some lakes and some streams , before actually finding any hungry fish. I ended up getting lucky and hooking into a couple fish before the day was up. The only fly I could get them interested in was a sculpin pattern I tie using olive mink and small bead chain eyes. They weren't big fish by carp standards but they made up for size in their fight for sure. A couple of spots I saw some spawning activity but most I didn't , the spawners could care less about anything except each other so I didn't even waste my time with those fish. Shouldn't be long and it ought to get better when the spawns done and the water warms up a bit more..I can't wait.

A couple pics on my blog....Jeff

http://highplainsflyfisher.blogspot.com/

[Bwinkert]

I enjoy your blog, congrads on catching a mirror, I havent pulled that off yet. i'm glad im not the only person who has the obsession with catching "trash" do you go after gar much?

Had Monday off and decided to chase some carp since it turned out to be such a nice day. Had to hit probably six different bodies of water, some lakes and some streams , before actually finding any hungry fish. I ended up getting lucky and hooking into a couple fish before the day was up. The only fly I could get them interested in was a sculpin pattern I tie using olive mink and small bead chain eyes. They weren't big fish by carp standards but they made up for size in their fight for sure. A couple of spots I saw some spawning activity but most I didn't , the spawners could care less about anything except each other so I didn't even waste my time with those fish. Shouldn't be long and it ought to get better when the spawns done and the water warms up a bit more..I can't wait.

A couple pics on my blog....Jeff

http://highplainsflyfisher.blogspot.com/

[HighPlainsFlyFisher]

I havn't caught a gar yet on the fly but I'd love too. If I knew where to find some shallow fish around here I'd be up for a trip to give it a shot. I do enjoy chasing those carp on the shallow flats though , the key word here is normally chasing not catching!....Jeff

http://highplainsflyfisher.blogspot.com/