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    Boats, Caneos, kayaks

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    Thanks the H20 was one I was looking at, the other one was Garmin e-trex legend. I know those mirage drives are fast I saw one on a lake I was fishing and he was really going.Kirk

    Hi all,

    I have been rigging a wavewalk kayak for lake and stream fly-fishing for carp. Sometimes it just gets me to points i otherwise wouldn;t be able to reach, othertimes to sneak along stading up and "hunting" for feeding carp.

    http://wavewalk.com/Fishing_Kayak_Review_15.html

    A good short outing and Thank you!

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    Hi all,

    I forwarded this post to Ian James, to which he replied:

    Sir:

    Here is the official history for The Puke Fly.

    Feel free to copy and post on the carp board.

    rover and out

    Ian

    ----

    The Puke Fly

    Other names: Willie's Puke Fly, the White Puke Fly

    The White Puke Fly is now 12 years old.

    It was invented by Willie Mc Lennan (age 4 at the time) for fishing in

    Guelph Lake, Guelph, Ontario for Smallmouth Bass.

    He noticed that when he was landing Smallmouth Bass some of them would

    regurgitate food and other fish, often larger Smallmouth Bass would

    scarf back the regurgitated food. Willie said, "I should make a puke

    fly." So he did.

    He took his white marabou creation into the Guelph Casual Dress Club

    Fly Fishing Club, and "boasted" to the members that he had invented a

    fly, and that he had landed 50 Crappies on it, plus a few Smallmouth

    Bass, which he had done earlier in the day of the club meeting. Several

    of the club members started using the fly in Guelph Lake, and some of

    them used it for Brown Trout on the upper Grand River near Fergus,

    Ontario and in the Credit River for Brook Trout. The fly worked well,

    even on spooky and selective fish. Then the fall rolled along and some

    of the club members started using the Puke Fly for Steelhead in the

    Credit River, the Maitland River and in the Saugeen River here in

    Ontario. The fly was an instant success. I am not sure who the first

    person was to land a Steelhead on a Puke Fly, but I know that a lot of

    fly fishermen and float fishermen have done well on the pattern. For

    many successful fisherman and float fishermen a Puke Fly has become a

    "go-to" pattern.

    At the 2003 Canadian Fly Fishing Championships the V.I.P event was won

    by Doug Austin on a White Puke Fly.

    A White Puke Fly has caught fish across the USA, Canada, Ireland,

    Scotland, Tasmania, England, France, Norway, Sweden, Australia, New

    Zealand, South Africa and Wales, which ain't bad.

    The fly has taken a whole host of fish including:

    Brown Trout, Steelhead, Brook Trout, Bull Trout, Tiger Trout, Channel

    Catfish, Carp, Sheephead, Mooneye, Redhorse, Goldeneye, Fallfish,

    Chinook Salmon, Pink salmon, Coho salmon, Smallmouth Bass, White Bass,

    Wipers, Largemouth Bass, Crappies, Rocky Mountain Whitefish, Walleye,

    Brown Bullhead, Sunfish, Gar Pike, Grayling, Zander, Northern Pike,

    Bowfin and Muskies.

    Here is Willies original dressing for the pattern. There are now a

    whole host of variations on it. Some fishermen add pearl Flashabou, red

    Flashabou or purple Flashabou to the tail and sometimes dumbbell eyes

    are substituted for the bead chain eyes. The body has also been tied

    with rabbit fur or some other white dubbing material like Arctic fox. I

    know a few fly fishermen who add a collar of well marked grouse or

    partridge tied in behind the eyes, with the feather tips extending well

    past the hook point.

    Willies original White Puke Fly did not have the eyes, he added them

    about a week later because they made the fly look better. Most anglers

    use the eyed version for deeper pools and the original version, without

    the eyes, for fishing in shallow water.

    Hook: Standard wet-fly, Mustad 3399

    Size : #8

    Tail: Small chunk of white marabou

    Body: Dubbed white marabou, well picked out and trimmed up to look

    "scruffy"

    Head: White marabou dubbed over the eyes.

    Eyes: A pair of silver bead chain.

    The Puke Fly is a good pattern to use when introducing kids to fly

    fishing or fly tying as they tend to like the name.

    Ben from Doylestown

    Birthday Carp!

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    Ben,

    Great way to have a birthday celebration.  Happy birthday and hope you can get many more (birthdays and carp on the fly).  Have you tried Ian Colin James' muncher at all? Good job and congratulations on a fine accomplishment!  :D  Looks to be a fine specimen.

    Thanks all! Guess you can tell i was excited!

    eich-- it was a mini muncher thatg the carp took.

    Looks like tomorrow should be a pretty day for hitting the creek again!

    Ben

    Birthday Carp!

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    post-877-1141952187.jpg

    Wow- what a birthday!

    Breakfast and lunch with my wife, didn't need to go to work. all my kids called, heard from friends and family, good lift at Joe's gym, and caught my first carp on a fly this year!

    All by 5:00!

    Hope you all experience birthdays like this in 2006!

    Ben from Doylestown

    Caught on Ian Smith's mini munchie, 8' from shore, 15 minutes on the line, about 10- 11 lbs.

    Cold Water Tips Anyone?

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    I do flyfishing on the South Platte River for carp in the spring and throughout summer.  But I don't use flies.  I use bait.  Maggots, mealworms, and nightcrawlers.  I simply use one of two different size bait threaders, the larger one for crawlers, the hair threader for maggots and mealworms.  I then thread them completely on the hook and line so they present naturally.  I use hooks with very short shanks, such as some Gamakatsus and salmon egg hooks.

    Sounds interesting-- what's a bait threader? Where do you get them? I searched online but didn't hit.....

    Ben

    Cold Water Tips Anyone?

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    Good morning,

    A brisk 20 degrees here -- now that you have given that edge, i need help with the weather--- i think it will be easier to buy a plane ticket than flyfish in philadelphia in December!

    Thanks all for your advice-- we'll get a week of 70 degrees in January and i'll get a cold weather carp on a fly! :D

    Ben

    Cold Water Tips Anyone?

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    Morning All!

    :D Been a fun and challenging year-- picked up a fly rod for the first time in April, starting chasing carp with it in May-- and now have an even dozen under my belt. Love it-- haven't gotten my rod pods and alarms and lounge chair out all year! :D:D:D

    Haven't had any luck though since things got colder here in Pennsy-- I kind find them schooling, but not feeding. Can't seem to get them interested or catch them in the flats like I did this summer.

    Any advice for cold weather fly fishing -- (25-30 overnite; 40 to 55 day)?

    Thanks !

    Ben

    First Carp on Fly in London Ontario

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    Just stumbled across this forum and Ben you are lucky to have encountered The Carpfather. Are you on the Carp Registry?

    I have also had the pleasure of being converted from a "trout purist" to a lowly carp hunter by watching the Big Guy, and fishing's been better ever since.

    Were you introduced to the Puke Fly? It's way better than a Wooly Bugger and far more productive, plus it has a very good story behind it.

    Tightlines all,

    torontofly :D

    First catch was on a white puke--- I was on another planet so the story about the boy and the bass and minnows sort of went over my head! Carpfather assures me I will soon be on the registry!

    Ben

    First Carp on Fly in London Ontario

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    Hi all!

    All I can say is wow! Hooked up with Ian Colin James in London for 1 1/2 days of fly fishing for carp (also working on my "cast") great guy and guide! http://www4.sympatico.ca/ianjames/ask.html

    Got into five (5-8 lbs.)on the first afternoon- two hours after getting off the plane-- and landed two monsters (see pics @ http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?...Uy=1hl9cq&Ux=0)

    the next day! Took over an hour to land the one! I'm not sure--- do I look happy in these pics!

    Carp on a fly is it!! :D

    Landed a few nice smallmouth bass too! Great trip, brought home improved casting and some productive flies--- those local carp better be ready now!

    Hooked and loving it,

    Ben from doylestown :D:D:D

    throwing flies at spawning carp

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    :D Hi all!

    Thanks for the good advice--- spent all morning saturday-- great morn-- hiking around a local reservoir-- saw monster snapppers, swans, a beaver, beautiful beaver pond-- and --- yep- three monster carp slowly working up a little channel! 6' off shore. this was it -- with sweaty palms i started trying to cast in front of them ; twitching the black wooly bugger and very slwoly retrieving as they churned up mud and ignored it.

    took me several minutes (seemed like a month) to switch to a caddis something or other- finally a great gentle placement 15' ahead of the biggest carp. seemed like took him 15 minutes to reach it. He stopped and stared, i twitched it, he stared, ( like the suspense here :D ) i twitched again and he turned a swam off into the deep.

    I was thrilled-- an almost interested monster carp-- probably never would have landed him, easily 30" plus-- what a morning! Got a lot of excercise, saw some wonders of nature, and actually found feeding carp...

    I am ready for more!!

    Thanks guys,

    Ben

    throwing flies at spawning carp

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    Good morning!

    Thanks guys! It's raining and cool this morning so i'll reread my book (reynolds, etc.) and refrain from running out to buy that "dynostick fly".

    So far i have only seen one fish chowing down this spring, course didn;t have my rod with me and he finished by the time i returned from the truck.

    Stalk more, cast less. sounds like a plan.

    appreciative of advice,

    Ben :D

    throwing flies at spawning carp

    in Carp on the Fly

    Posted

    :D It was gorgeous yesterday as I approached the small reservoir near doylestown yesterday-- as i got within 100yds of the water i could hear some powerful splashing going on-- figured the geese were making a mess of things again!

    boy was i surprised to see literally dozens of carp nearly splashing on shore, in the channels, in the middle of the lake, all over the place churning silt and water all over.

    stood in the middle and threw some flies at them but i think they had other things on their minds.

    I'm still seeking my first carp on a fly-- any suggestions while the spawn is on?

    go home and read my carp on a fly book or what?

    Ben in Doylestown

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