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do bass taste any good?

i think they are great too. my mate who is prone to snags swears by them... man is he prone to snags

oh well, thats what i have... i'll expect bust offs. :/

hey jimmy, thansk for the reply. its a 4wt outfit with floating line. initially i will be targeting carp in shallow water so either getting the top feeders with a floating fly or bottom feeders in about 1m of water max with a sinking fly. I am thinking 4lb to the fly the water runs VERY slowly to almost a standstill. and only a little wind gets to the spot where i fish. later i'll target trout in streams. certainly be easier to make my own leaders than purchase. I can furl if needed.

very cool. what sort of flies did you use? I want to start fly fishing for carp soon.

is there a preference for not going deep?

g'day guys! next week i and going to give fly fishing a go... it seems there are a few different types of leaders tho which adds to confusion. tappered straight mono furled (made from mono (saw this on youtube) braid what do you guys do? what works best in what situations? I am likely to fly fish carp initially then later trout. different leaders for different fish? all feedback appreciated

nice to hear someone out there is fishing and catching

nice swag of wormies! thanks for the report

nicely done.

yup grinner. I have caught them too around there

skippys are awesome to catch. love em. well done!i'd put him at a about 35cm though.

man i am tired just reading about all that running! well done mate

never caught a EP before. well done on the SP mate!

not me. I prefer to fish alone... its just one of those things. i dont mind fishing with someone tho, as long as they arent yabbering in my ear the whole time

man, i need to get out there. SP have never been my thing but i think i should start giving them a go

awesome. well done mate

yup, skippy are an excellent fighting fish. love catching them

box head? where do you want to fish?

pinching ya catch... thats low! sounds like a great outing. grats on the catches

yup, just a bit of bad luck. it will only get better from here tho having never tried fly fishing, how much room does this require?

Sydney has been subjected to some unseasonably warm weather of late . I was a little worried that Id have to wait a month or 2 more before the carp started firing up again but the reports here and elsewhere are showing that the season has indeed started... So I headed down to my little carp hole. I usually travel with only one rod but this time grabbed the spare as well. This spare is usually the one my wife uses and is a light tip 2kg spin set up. After parking the car I walked down to the weir not really expecting anything, but there in about 30cm of water were 2 carp of about 2-3kg each digging up the bottom. i tried to catch these two but they were too skittish and disappeared. Moving up steam a little creeping along as best as i could i spotted another larger fish. The river here is only 2-3 meters wide and the fish was in a bit of a hole near the edge. I used this as my start point setting up both rods with bread bait and a little bit of berley and had 2 hookups but but didn't land either. I moved from there up to the main pool and didn't get any action there till I moved further up the pool where a fish ran me straight into a submerged log. All up i saw maybe a dozen or more fish and they were all very actively swimming around but they weren't really feeding. Its still early in the season yet and I am guessing that given another month they will hit just about anything. So the total was 3 hookups and none landed. Soooo.... no picture for you! On a side note while quietly sitting by the bank a guy with a video camera came crashing through the bush in the hope of recording a platypus. Apparently they reside further down stream. While he was bush bashing to get to the river it occurred to me that we are a very noisy species. Just as well he didn't have to rely on stealth to hunt any more, that guy would have starved!

for bait? arent they a bit small?

the dear hair is a sinking fly right?

well done. i hope to catch one on fly this year too.