Carp on the Hooch – Finally!
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Thanks for sharing. I am going to check this area out in the yak. I saw some on between Whitewater and Paces a couple of weeks ago.
Zach, just a cautionary note about publicizing carp spots online. You are correct that there aren’t many people fly fishing for carp, and those few people aren’t likely to have much impact on a good flat even if you post directions on the Internet.
On the other hand, a couple rednecks with bows can wipe out your carp spot completely in half a day. I know, because a couple bowfishermen floated into my favorite carp spot toward the end of last July and shot every carp they saw. They just shot them, dropped them back into the water off their arrows, and left them dead, floating in the water. Best I could count, they killed over a hundred.
Bowfishermen are beneath contempt in the fly fishing circles around here; they have wiped most of the redfish out in several widespread areas of the marsh and ruined generations-old fishing areas. Not a lick of conservation ethic to be found in the bowfishing “guides.” Several fly-fishing guides have withdrawn their (previously generous) support of CCA-Louisiana for its refusal to support legislation outlawing bowfishing.
Amazing that they would use carp as nothing more than target practice. Of course, with redfish, they only leave behind the mortally wounded and juvenile (below-size limit) fish.
Amazing that they would use carp as nothing more than target practice.
It’s just wholesale slaughter.
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