Brandon Dale is a licensed New York State guide who specializes in fishing, of all places, Central Park in the middle of The Big Apple. You may not be interested in fishing for carp in New York City, but Brandon offers some valuable tips on carp . . .
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Podcast: Secrets of Carp Fishing around Spawning Time, with Rowan Lytle
Carp are always difficult, but around spawning time they can be extremely frustrating. But they can be caught on a fly; you just need to know where to look and which fish to target. Guide Rowan Lytle has it dialed in, and if you always wanted to catch a . . .
Read MorePro Tips: How to Fish for Carp in Moving Water, Part II
Perhaps because carp are so frequently called “poor man’s bonefish,” anglers new to the species often imagine they’ll be stalking a wide-open flat, making long casts to drop flies right on the noses of tailing fish. While that ideal scenario may arise . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Sight-Fish with Nymphs for Carp
Fly-fishing for carp still raises a few eyebrows in the angling community, but these picky, powerful fish are now widely accepted as a challenging quarry. In this vide from The New Fly Fisher, host Colin McKeown and guide Glen Hales chase golden bones . . .
Read MorePro Tips: How to Fish for Carp in Moving Water, Part I
Twenty-five years ago, angling pioneers Barry Reynolds, Brad Befus, and John Berryman published Carp on the Fly, setting the stage for a major shift in fly-fishing culture and elevating the lowly carp from trash fish to revered quarry. I was fortunate . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Approach Carp
Carp fishing has exploded in popularity over recent years, even in Western states like Colorado which are home to abundant populations of trout. Not only are carp fisheries usually located a lot closer to home than trout streams. . .
Read MoreVideo: Tom Rosenbauer in The DSP Slush Slam
The Grand Slam is one of the most challenging scenarios that a fly angler can achieve. Traditionally, in the world of flats fishing, to pull off a Grand Slam requires that the angler catches a tarpon, permit, and bonefish in a single day. Anyone who has . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: Fly-Fishing for Carp Down Under
It seems like most modern fishing videos are edited to show only the moments when everything goes right, so it’s refreshing to find one that paints a more complete picture of both victories and defeats. In this video from . . .
Read MorePodcast: Carp and Eels Down Under, with Angus Reynolds
This week, we take a trip Down Under to talk to Australian guide Angus Reynolds. He customarily guides trout anglers, but because of the recurring drought in Australia, Angus has been pursuing alternate species, and carp are one of his major . . .
Read More4 Keys to Catching More Carp
As late-summer conditions create lower water levels and higher temperatures here in central Wyoming, we like to give the trout a break and focus on a less-appreciated and less-fragile quarry: the common carp. While fly-fishing for carp can be frustrating . . .
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