Fly Fishing for Carp at times ranks very high on the roughest days that I have had on the water, and this day was no different. I sight casted at this one Carp for about 20 minutes and he finally bit flailing around like no Xarp I had ever seen. We Struggled back and forth as he pulled out line and I tried desperately to reel it back in, seeing the backing 4 times within about 10 minutes. Finally he had started to tire out and to the surface he came. Not a huge Carp about 10-12 pounds, but on the 5 Weight he felt big and the stamina was incredible. I swooped in for the catch and as soon as I grabbed him he came to life snapped my line and that was the end of it. In shock I headed back to the truck pulled the tailgate down and sat there thinking about what I had done wrong. Was the knot bad, had he cut my line on something, why was my net at home? These things were all racing through my mind, but man was it fun to feel that fish on the other end of the line.
Themocracy
Nice fish, and I’d call that landed. I’ve become a nerd about always carrying a landing net for carp–after having your experience several times.
where was this at, it looks like a stream?