After all the wind yesterday I wondered if the carp flat would be fishable - the reservoir has been dropping and strong winds can stir up silty sediment clouding visibility. Sure enough, there was some turbidity but man, no clouds, no smoke and (at the start) just a light breeze and bright sun! Capr weather!
I had planned to wade the reservoir south from where I'd parked but there was a bass boat working his way down MY shoreline so I went north. It turned out to be a good choice as I found fish but I struggled to get anything going. I either spooked the fish or they simply refused the Trouser Worm. When something isn't working: change.
I tied on a crayfish fly and managed to bring back a scale. A couple casts later:
I waded to one of my favorite rock formations and spotted several carp that were just hanging out, they weren't mudding but they weren't cruising either. I took three shots at a carp; by the third shot he shot out of the skinny water. Rinse and repeat - four or five times. I think if you make two casts near a carp and they don't eat, you're wasting your time casting a third time so for me, it's a rule of two casts to get it done. I managed to spook all the carp at this former favorite spot (next time!).
Further up the shoreline, there's a small bay with a duck blind on the point and reeds at the skinny end. Rinse and repeat - refusal after refusal. Time to move. Moving paid off.
I landed four caprs with the crayfish, the lead eyes rotated about 90 degrees. I started getting refusals on the crayfish, hybrid time.
The wind started blowing hard, the reservoir was whitecapping. And a fire started up southeast of me so I called it a day.
I had planned to wade the reservoir south from where I'd parked but there was a bass boat working his way down MY shoreline so I went north. It turned out to be a good choice as I found fish but I struggled to get anything going. I either spooked the fish or they simply refused the Trouser Worm. When something isn't working: change.
I tied on a crayfish fly and managed to bring back a scale. A couple casts later:
I waded to one of my favorite rock formations and spotted several carp that were just hanging out, they weren't mudding but they weren't cruising either. I took three shots at a carp; by the third shot he shot out of the skinny water. Rinse and repeat - four or five times. I think if you make two casts near a carp and they don't eat, you're wasting your time casting a third time so for me, it's a rule of two casts to get it done. I managed to spook all the carp at this former favorite spot (next time!).
Further up the shoreline, there's a small bay with a duck blind on the point and reeds at the skinny end. Rinse and repeat - refusal after refusal. Time to move. Moving paid off.
I landed four caprs with the crayfish, the lead eyes rotated about 90 degrees. I started getting refusals on the crayfish, hybrid time.
The wind started blowing hard, the reservoir was whitecapping. And a fire started up southeast of me so I called it a day.