Swamp trout, mud marlin or maltese snapper……

[brian aherne]

I have heard them called all these names and a lot more. Carp were one of the few targets that i could chase as a 12 year old just learning to fish, right up until i got my drivers licence. Twenty plus years later i am still chasing them. I finally left the fly rod at home today, got the camera out and went for a walk along the local creek. The carp are just getting a move on now that it has started to warm up.

Brian

[Ronnie Moore]

Nice shots.

[Corey Kruitbosch]

Cool shots!

[Colin M.]

awesome!! we call em golden salmon or Appalachian bonefish back this way.

[Grant Wright]

The elusive Golden Bone, one of my favorites.

[Peter E.]

What sort of flies do you folks use over there for carp?

[brian aherne]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

Peter, I do a lot of sight fishing to carp in the shallow arms of lakes. The fish are often in a few inches of water. They are often swimming around with their backs out of the water.

My favourite fly is an unweighted super salt chenille woolly bugger. I would use black 90% of the time. The rest of the time i would change between various colours. Usually brown, olive, pink or orange.

Other patterns that i have been successful with are woolly worms, various buzzer patterns, zonkers and some other australian patterns like the USD Merri Minnow and the Fur Fly.. Most flies have either rabbit fur or marabou in them so they move even when i am not moving the fly. I have recently been playing around with a woolly bugger that has a foam post tied on so it acts like an emerger. Quite often the tadpoles hang from the surface like that and the carp seem to like it a bit 😉

In rivers i use a lot of patterns that have more weight but most of them are US patterns like egan’s headstand, carp crack, Clouser swimming nymphs.

Brian.

[Peter E.]

I’ll have to google up those last patterns. I like the black wooly bugger idea though. Simple is best.

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