A big mirror carp shootin' blanks

About 30 years ago I was flyfishing a winter lake near Sprague when I hooked a really heavy fish where a creek's waterfall dropped into a good sized lake. Solid take and low and slow battle. It was to be my 6-7-8 pound rainbow I thought. Instead, a really nice mirror carp.

Did not know at the time there was a different type of carp in the area. Thought my fish was sorta messed up.
 
Nice & as Pat said, "Nice to see you posting!"
 
Gyrfalcon22, the vast majority of carp in the PNW are common carp. There are a few mirrors but not many. The Blackfoot Reservoir, in Idaho, has only mirrors. Since they are unusual they appeal to me. I suppose if we had primarily mirrors a common would intrigue me. I like them all.

There are several types of mirrors. The fish in the photo is a linear mirror. There are fully scaled mirrors and partially scaled mirrors. I have a photo of one that I caught that was partially scaled on one side and had a single scale on the other side.

Once in a great while you might catch a carp with no scales; it is called a leather carp. Like I said, I like all of them.
 
MrP said:
Gyrfalcon22, the vast majority of carp in the PNW are common carp. There are a few mirrors but not many. The Blackfoot Reservoir, in Idaho, has only mirrors. Since they are unusual they appeal to me. I suppose if we had primarily mirrors a common would intrigue me. I like them all.

There are several types of mirrors. The fish in the photo is a linear mirror. There are fully scaled mirrors and partially scaled mirrors. I have a photo of one that I caught that was partially scaled on one side and had a single scale on the other side.

Once in a great while you might catch a carp with no scales; it is called a leather carp. Like I said, I like all of them.
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Very neat ! The one I caught looked quite a bit like the one you have in the photo- lateral scales only was pretty much I recall.
 
oh yes!

I'm curious, how late into the year do you typically find them?
 
They’re some fun for sure
 
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