PB Bass and Carp on the Fly

[NickM221]

I don't think I've posted yet this year, but I've been lurking and enjoyed seeing everyone's posts!

I've been doing a lot of fly fishing this season, but also decided to try out fishing with larger baits for bass which has wound up paying off. The two biggest bass I caught weighed in at 5.5 and 4.5 lbs.

https://i.imgur.com/t7Z8atp.jpg https://i.imgur.com/W5Dn9l0.jpg

I've started fly fishing for carp which has been a lot of fun, but a bit tricky. I've found the best way to catch them to be casting ~5-10 feet in front of them and letting the current carry the fly to the carp. Here's one of the better ones that I caught.

https://i.imgur.com/VirssGy.jpg

This past week, I did some more fly fishing for Pike and managed to catch this guy on a self-tied streamer.

https://i.imgur.com/r1XYnQf.jpg

After that, I hit up a stream and managed to land my first two brown trout.

https://i.imgur.com/aLEFNld.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/AuNKuli.jpg

[NJ219bands]

Carp are the most difficult fish to catch on a fly.

[thmyorke1]

Quality post. What njbands said about carp. Excellent!

[AndyS]

Quite an accomplishment on flies, great work !

[Fortunate Son]

Awesome sauce!

[JDTuna]

That's amazing man!!! Multi species on the fly. Great work.

[Chrisper4694]

that's pretty impressive

[FASTEDDIE29]

Great catching man!!! That’s pretty epic stuff right there. Congrats on the PB and fly fishing domination!!! Haha!!!:D

[Bergen Angler]

Simply amazing and a huge accomplishment.
Out of curiosity, what kind of flies did you use for the large mouth?
also what size tippet did you use for the pike?
Beautiful brown..

[Mikey topaz]

Dude! For just starting out fly fishing! ???? Your killing it man! Nice job👍

[Bergen Angler]

The way he is holding the brownie, I doubt he is a beginner.
and the fact he caught a carp on a fly? that is one of the toughest fish to catch on a fly and you have to make a perfect cast without spooking the carp a few feet in front a carp and you have to sight fish the carp.
He is definitely a pro.
And the sizes of largemouth? Look where he is fishing - no back casting room. and he probably used sinking tip? these are tough conditions for fly fishing.

[NorthJerzyG]

Nice job getting out there and accomplishing something you set out to do. Results look great, congrats!!

[NickM221]

Thanks guys!


Out of curiosity, what kind of flies did you use for the large mouth?
also what size tippet did you use for the pike?
Look where he is fishing - no back casting room. and he probably used sinking tip? these are tough conditions for fly fishing.


The carp were definitely tricky, especially since there's not much room to cast along the river - I got skunked a lot fishing for them haha. Luckily, a lot of the places I've been fly fishing so far have been rivers and smaller lakes/ponds, so no need for sinking tip yet!

I got those two largemouth on bigger swimbaits - a 4.5" sunfish swimbait and a 6" perch swimbait, but I have had a lot of luck fly fishing for bass with streamers and poppers.

For the Pike, I've just been using the 4x tippet that came with my combo and tied a foot long wire leader onto the tippet.