A Video on Carp Rise Patterns and Casting
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I fished mostly river backwaters & a few ponds here in Washington, but started on a side channel of a popular trout river back in Montana in the early 70's. Seeing surface rises over deeper water as captured in that video would be highly unusual here in my experience. Other than surface sunning carp over deeper water the only other "rises"/umps would be when clooping (and that has been on shallow flats or below shoreline Mulberry trees; or during the pre-spawn when I assume females are jumping to break up egg skeins (or jumping for joy lol)..
Wow, you've been carp fishing for a very long time.
As you mentioned, surface dry-fly rises by carp over deep water are not common in Korea either. It's a phenomenon that occurs regularly only on a few specific rivers. I sometimes wonder if there might be rivers somewhere in the U.S. where the same thing happens.
To recognize this phenomenon, you first have to know what a carp dry-fly rise actually looks like. If you've never seen it before, even when it happens right in front of you, you may not realize what you're looking at.
Otherwise, you'll probably dismiss it as nothing more than a carp thrashing on the surface, a random jump, or perhaps the rise of some other species of fish.
I was lucky enough to move near that river several years ago and fished it regularly. Even so, I never noticed the carp dry-fly rises at all until I met the man featured in the Legend of Carp Rise video. Only then did I realize that carp were actively rising to the surface there.
And it wasn't just me. At the time, no fly anglers in Korea knew about it either. It was he who introduced us to the idea of carp surface rises.
It's amazing to think that it's already been almost twenty years since he first opened our eyes to carp surface rises.