Tips on carp

[Nolan]

Ok I have some questions.. There is a river by my house and it over flooded and now the carp are everywhere in the neighbors pasture.. kind of a bow fishermans dream.. but I wanted to try to catc them. So i threw out a wax worm and a bobber and they completely ignored it.. they were coming up to the top to slurp up litle bugs I think. Not to be outdone by some carp I went back home and came out with my muskie gear and a nice big treble a snagged a few. They were super fun to reel in on the big tackle and i can't imagine them on light tackle.. How do you make them bite? Little sunfish popper on the surface? Or how? Its also pretty weedy. Thanks

[Comit 2]

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There is a river by my house and it over flooded and now the carp are everywhere in the neighbors pasture

If I saw this the first thing I would think is there must be a lot of nightcrawlers drowning. So first I would try Crawlers. Then I would get out the flyrod.

You may want to think twice before you post that you are breaking the law with snagging!!!!

[matthothand]

Judas Priest man... you're breaking the law.

[fishface]

some folks get them on dry flies tied to look like cotton wood tree seeds.

I've caught a very few on some emergers fished in the surface film. got to be sneaky though.

[OnAFly]

It's going to be tough to catch them on the surface. I would recommend looking for fish that are tailing, or sitting nose down tail up in the water rooting around for food. Take a size 12 or bigger nymph and throw in about 6 in in front and 6 in to the side of them. If you fly selection is right, they will scoot over and inhale your fly.

The fly I was doing this with on Sat was a #8 scud hook with a brown marabou tail, rust dubbing mixed with hare's ear guard hairs and a brown soft hackle collar. Every tailing fish I got a shot at was caught. A large hairs ear nymph would probably work well too.

The tailing ones are easy, the cruising ones are difficult.

[onemore]

It seems like this presentation is key. I have become frustrated putting a fly directly in from to f them, but when the fly is off to the side slightly they will swing their head over and take a chance in-haling the fly! It also seems like brown/rust are go to colors.

As far as the posting goes - you might have the best luck with a small octopus hook and night-crawlers or corn. I would recommend 8lb test mono on a medium spinning outfit. You can throw some corn out to get them in the area and put a light split sot a foot above the hook or rig it like a lindy rig style. Good luck!

[bobbymalone]

you are enough of a fisherman to own muskie gear, but you don't know how to catch a carp???