![]() You want to create a competitive feeding situation. Do not increase the amount you feed until you have several fish feeding. Once carp are feeding on your floaters they will look for more and follow the “chum line” up-wind. Get in a rhythm of feeding small amounts of bait at regular intervals. Get the presentation right and you will have some great sport! Carp are not stupid, they will not accept this presentation. Casting across the wind creates problems, the bow in the line quickly draws the fly across the ripple in the most unnatural way. As you feed floating baits they will drift with the wind, and you want your fly to drift in a similar manner. Ideally pick a swim with the wind off your back or in your face, this is very important. I recommend you use Chum Mixer dog biscuits or large floating trout pellets. They can be induced to competitively feed within your casting range by feeding floating baits. These fisheries have plenty of hard fighting carp, just waiting to take your fly! HowĪs I mentioned earlier, carp will happily feed off the surface. I can’t imagine anyone that’s reading this in the UK will be far from a commercial, day ticket coarse fishery. Once the water temperature reaches over twenty degrees centigrade is when I make the switch. The time to target carp fits perfectly with the decline in the trout’s activity. Imagine catching a fish like this on the surface! When What’s more, they will happily feed off the surface, which makes it a visually appealing proposition. ![]() But, being a freshwater angler, my inclination is to target carp, a species that thrives in the heat of summer. ![]() Why, you may ask?Īs a trout angler it becomes harder each year to fish effectively during the “dog days of summer.” So what to do? I could look towards the sea and fish for bass or mullet. Increasingly over the last few years I’ve found myself fly fishing for carp. Fly fishing For Carp Published: 1st September 2023 ![]()
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