If you are dealing with muddy or algae filled water, the first line of business is to get your butt off the shore. I fly fish for carp from my kayak. Get out and hunt for areas that show signs of carp habitat. Commons love to hunt for crayfish, so finding areas that they like helps. Big boulders with crevices, sandy shorelines, and gravel bars or sunken wood make good spots. If the spot is shallow, anchor and wait. If a fish is there, look for him tailing or the faint silhouette. Then you can effectively sight fish for them. Otherwise, try to spot bubblers, and cast at those. Fish the fly a bit faster than normal to cover terrain, but still slow enough not to put off the fish.
Some times of the year here berries or seeds will fall out of trees that hang low over the water. This can be darned technical fishing. Cast low and under the branches with a berry pattern if you know a fish is there. If not use a nymph. Even if carp are hunting sunken fruit they will often not shy away from a crayfish, burrower nymph, or leech pattern.
Some flies that I designed for carp:
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| Single Berry -red chenille -soaked in Dave's Flexament |
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| Cluster Berry Red Chenille Dave's Flexament |
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| Carp Nymph -brown marabou -olive chenille body -olive hairs ear dubing -pheasant tail wingcase - |
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-brown v-rib -rubber legs -olive died deer hair |
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| crayfish -Kaufman's Blend Golden Stone -light elk hair -rubber legs |
Beautiful work and good advice.
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