Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} C&O Canal Carp

+1 to Jeff's posts.  If you can consistently catch carp on fly tackle, you know how to fish and I'd put your skill against anyone's. 

I picked up a few off the Potomac earlier this spring sight casting a fly that was literally a hook, lead eyes, and piece of rabbit strip tied and "punched" onto the hook point.  I'm convinced that fly pattern is NOT important. If they'll take that nasty thing I was using, they'll certainly take just about anything else. It's mostly locating a feeder and making a perfect presentation to it. 

I use a 30 > 20 > 10 or 12 pound leader and given the lack of teeth, breaking off shouldn't be a problem.  That said, I hooked one on a 3-weight that ran across the river under a bridge pylon, and the abrasion against concrete certainly can break line (and it did).  I'm almost sure of the same result had I been using an 8-weight.  Sometimes big fish just "win". 

On spinning tackle Beth and I used medium rods with 8-pound mono and landed several fish in the 20+ pound category without problems.

Gene

On Saturday, October 4, 2014 4:32:19 PM UTC-4, Jeff Silvan wrote:

I've made a of posts about them this summer. You can search to get more details, but soft hackles and nymphs are my go to.

On Oct 4, 2014 3:43 PM, "Rob Snowhite" <r...@robsnowhite.com> wrote:

TPFR Jocelyn broke one off a week or so ago on a size 12 bead head flash back hares ear olive. Sight cast to it and it turned and slurped it up mid water column. The fish broke 8lb Berkley vanish, fish was prob 15lb+

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On Oct 4, 2014, at 3:35 PM, MattT <matthe...@gmail.com> wrote:

Went out to the C&O Canal this morning to target carp. They're definitely out in full force. I probably saw 20 of them in 3 hours. The water was really low and I was able to get down on the banks below the path. I literally threw my entire fly box at these guys and they couldn't be bothered. 

I was able to land a few smallies and the fall weather is beautiful, so all in all, a great morning, but what's the deal with these carp? I started with a small woolly bugger, then a worm pattern, then a mulberry pattern... a few looks, but mostly they didn't even notice the flies. 

Have you guys had any luck with a specific pattern or technique out there? 

Matt

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