Go Fishing Forum

Yes, I know. You hear Colorado and imagine pristine mountain lakes and lots of trout. Well, I live a couple of hours from the mountains, and most of the fish I chase are of the warm water type. I do get to the mountains from time to time and spend some time in Wyoming every year fishing for trout. Right now, my favorite fishto catch is the carp. I sight fish for them with a flyrod in both the resevoirs and rivers. There's nothing quite hooking into a big carp on a fly rod.

I am looking forward to exploring this forum and seeing what is out there.

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Welcome to the boards kais

Carp are fun to catch, but I wouldn't stick a knife in one. I caught a carp once under the docks using a treble hook with canned corn on it. I was young and it was the coolest thing ever at that time in my life. Ahhh...fond memories.

Hello and welcome! Nice carp! I've only caught one on a fly. It happened about 28-30 years ago at Smith Mountian lake in Bedford county Virgina. I was fishing against a shore for bluegill and bream w/ a small sponge spider. When it hit and run I had no idea what it was and tusseled w/ it for some time before landing it. I weighed about 5 lbs. so I can't imagine the fun you must have had w/ the one in the picture. Thanks for sharing that w/ us here at the forum. I look forward to seeing more from you.

well thats not what I imagine, but we are glad you here & welcome ! it is pretty out there but what state dont have some country that when you drive threw it makes you wanna live there.

Welcome to the group.
Nice Pic.
I hope to see more.

when i was a kid around 10 years old we used to have a cabin up on the lake and i can remember wading knee deep picking up carp as they spawned and they were longer than we were and squirted 30 million grren eggs all over the place !

That is one of the reasons that I decided to start fishing for them. The Division of Wildlife told me that over 90 percent of the bio-mass in the lakes and rivers is carp. There are a bunch of them.
Kais
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well then you should never ever get skunked if you fish for the species that over populates the lake

I could still manage to get skunked there

she said you get skunked at Long John Silvers !

yeah, but that's because I eat the chicken planks