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My backyard pond has some big grass carp. These carp have my respect as I've yet to lay a finger on them. I danced with one brute for roughly 10 min before horsing out my fly, straightened another meager nymph hook, and missed two amazing takes on a grasshopper. This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night. I can hear those grass torpedos laughing from my bedroom window.
I also wonder what my neighbors think of me doing a panther crawl down to the weed wall only to catch loads of bluegill.
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if all the gills were this size they wouldn't be so annoying |
I've never caught a grass carp, but I imagine it would be one heck of a fight! They get huge!
ReplyDeleteBackyard pond, Grass Carp....dude. Try a weed fly. I heard of a guy tying the plastic fishtank weeds to a hoook and getting action on Grassies. They eat alot of weeds....I may have to come down and fish with you sometime. Grass Carp are high on my wishlist.
ReplyDeleteI caught my first one this year.
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I think my only hope was the cicada hatch going on. They were keying on them.
Kev - thanks for linking your grassie post. I'm getting the same nonchalant sips on terrestrials. I just need that one big slurp to get a solid hook up.
ReplyDeleteOh man that carp on Kev2380's blog is huge. You know what you should do. Make a ball of grass, soak it in some fertilizer and tie it on your hook. See if he'll take that stink-wad.
ReplyDeleteNate - that would be "matching the hatch". Good call.
ReplyDeleteJohn, I have had a few hits before on a chernobyl ant. The ones with the foam body.
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