Official 2025 CARP (and Capr) thread

[Evan B]

Are the citations it is using your posts?

I SAID IT IS NEVER WRONG

(it may be citing my posts)

 

[_WW_]

Not to derail a positive thread, but this is so dumb-
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Why the exceptions of Moses Lake and Vancouver Lake? Do they want them harvested more in those waters than others? WDFW are experts at confusion. So @_WW_ not sure why you asked, but if you have someone in mind that didn't want to buy a license tell em to head for Moses Lake or Vancouver.

The reason is I am thinking about boycotting buying a license for a while. Fuckers!

 

[skyriver]

So @clarkman do carry carp flies along with your capr flies?

 

[clarkman]

Close up capr scaleage....


Decent number hit the net including several plus size girls (for this location). Had 2 solid shots at mirrors, but I screwed up one shot, and the other came unpinned...bummer

 

[clarkman]

So @clarkman do carry carp flies along with your capr flies?

All hybrids of a good old fashioned John Montana hybrid. Some are hybrids of the hybrids.

 

[clarkman]

 

[Billy]

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they really are a cool fricking fish

 

[Jim F.]

I started chasing carp back home in Montana in the 70's. The most often-heard response when asked what I was after? "Carp? You're effing nuts!" I was, but I had discovered how much fun carp were on a fly rod during a spinner-fall on an old Jefferson River oxbow while targeting Browns and was hooked for life.

 

[Evan B]

Shook the rust off today. Fished a couple of bodies of water. Got two to hand: one roughly 2lb Capr™ and one approximately 8lb carp that was a total slug. It was like fighting a carp in slow motion.

Got about a half dozen other eats I missed or gently poked. Was kinda hard with the spot with the most fish doing its best to look like Moses lake.


Didn't get pics of either fish. Tarpon rules: grab the leader and it counts!

 

[Zak]

Capr in the backyard. Big fish for this lake!

 

[Evan B]

Capr in the backyard. Big fish for this lake!
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Looks like koi/actual goldfish

 

[skyriver]

Looks like koi/actual goldfish

Whatever it is, it's gotta eat. Next pic better include a fly in his mouth.

 

[Zak]

Looks like koi/actual goldfish

I wondered about that. I've seen three types of carplike fish in here. One, very big green backed fish that move with purpose in groups of 2 or three. They seem to be vegetarian or at least uninterested in my flies. Two, a wounded fish on the bottom that was black with large white spots or white ick around wounds. Three, this guy. The lake opens up last Saturday of April!

 

[Stonedfish]

I wondered about that. I've seen three types of carplike fish in here. One, very big green backed fish that move with purpose in groups of 2 or three. They seem to be vegetarian or at least uninterested in my flies. Two, a wounded fish on the bottom that was black with large white spots or white ick around wounds. Three, this guy. The lake opens up last Saturday of April!

The first ones you described could be grass carp. They’ve been planted in some lake to help keep vegetation in check, but can create their own problems.
Washington also has a known history of having bucket biologists.
SF

 

[Replicant]

Last week in Kyoto. Has anyone tied a Sakura fly?

 

[Wade Rivers]

Last week in Kyoto. Has anyone tied a Sakura fly?

Luv me some klooping!

I have caught them on beetle patterns when I see this feeding behavior.

 

[Scrimshaw]

Got my first carp this week. The eat was very subtle. Hooked another, bigger fish that took me to my backing and then I bent the hook out trying to put on the brakes before it went into a big mass of wood. Had a few minutes giggling after both. This is fun.