Carp on fly

[jdanger]

Mate of mine spotted a bunch of carp in an urban creek in western sydney whilst feeding ducks with his 3yo a few months ago.

Following the rains and fly reports from the central coast, we decided to give em a crack last week, and again today.

Plenty of fish cruising and feeding along the margins but we got the impression they've eaten enough recently to start getting choosy with their flies.

The water was especially dirty due to the rain so efforts had to be concentrated on the edges of the bank, with fish sometimes hooked at our feet.

Red & black wooly worms and tan carp biters did the trick last week, but olive was the go today.

Below pic is about average from what we've seen. Had a very visual eat after switching flies by a larger model who wasted no time screaming off downstream, running me into backing and burying me in a snag.

Worth packing the waders to help with landing them and worth watching for snakes (seen two red bellies in 3 visits). 

Using a standard 9ft rod with 6wt floating line and 8-10ft leader to 10/12lb tippet. 8ft of straight 10lb fluro works fine too.

A lot of fun for such a maligned species and a great local option for highly visual fishing!

[masterfisho7]

Well done love also fishing for carp on fly great photos