Carp Fly Fishing Video

Shaq’s Perspective: 90 degrees in the shade on a humid afternoon and wrh and I were heading out to a trout stream. Any self-respecting trout would have his nose gill deep into a spring or have traveled to the nearest cool tributary. We had decided that this would be a guaranteed fishing expedition and could not cancel for the next one we would take together might be a while. As we discussed strategy in a convenience store parking lot we agreed on an unconventional game plan. Something we had been hatching for weeks. We will head for the lower river. Our quarry will be wary, spooky as trout. Our flies will be scrutinized and if are were lucky, sucked in ever so slightly. On the hook-set, the water will explode. One will act as spotter, the other will lay delicate casts in still water with the brutal heat and sun beating us down. Our glasses will fog up and sweat will sting our eyes as we pull long gulps of water from our camelbacks. Tight lines will straighten violently, ripping from our fingers and will be pulled loudly from the reels. Tippets will part from the flies and some big fish will be landed. Everything will go according to plan. It’s going to be sweet.

Wrh’s Perspective: The plan was simple; I was going to fish several spotsuntil I met up with Shaq at 3:30. I hit the mouth ofthe river hoping to meet Mr. Smallmouth. Unfortunately the high waters this summer have madefinding the smallies very challenging. I headed up toa trib. that runs cold and got a couple of small wildbows and scouted out some other spots. The heat wasbrutal so when I met Shaq I told him that wet wadingwas the way to go and that the waters were hot. Wetalked about options and decided on a new quarry, onethat we had been talking about for a while. I havebeen fishing the mid section of river and seeing lotsof fish so we headed into the inferno and entered intoa new adventure.The odds were stacked against us. Large spooky fishin shallow water in the blazing sun were the quarry wethe hunters. Shaq and I worked as a team; onespotting fish, directing the caster, while the otherhunted and stayed out of sight. This is an infectioustype of fishing with visible takes and explosivereactions to the hook set. After this primer I can’twait to do more in the future.