2007.06.04
Video: Chasing carp
The other evening I spent a couple of hours at the duck ponds at Virginia Tech chasing carp.
Usually when I go after carp I'm armed with my bowfishing gear. This time I had my 5-weight fly rod and some tiny flies tied by Bruce Pencek, the social sciences librarian at Tech's library.
Bruce had a big one on briefly. I had two takes and was so shaken by the first explosion that I snapped the tippet on a flailing hook-set. I was more careful with the second, maybe too careful because it took me nearly 15 minutes to land the fish.
I've caught carp before but never on trout-sized tackle. It was a hoot and I plan to try it again at some other good carp spots I know.
Anyway, here's a short video of some of the action.
We actually used to fish for carp on the Snake River in the summer when we didn't have time to run up to the Sawtooths.
No one should pick on carp fishing. It's fun and the fish fight like mad on light fly tackle. Take a 4-weight out and have a ball.
Comment by scott — June 4, 2007 @ 3:23 pm