INDIANANGLER

Did anyone ever try Fly fishing for Carp, I heard from some people that Carp comes on fly, There are carp flies available on some sites

http://www.yagersflies.com/carpflies.html

Mobeen Sahib,

Its me Fateh from the PGFA. I have done some flyfishing in Rawal Dam, but ive never been able to get a carp. Just chilwas and very small rohu.

Im sure if you have specially designed carp flies and if you fished from a boast (distance fly casting is very hard) you'd be able to get a few.

Fateh thanks for the reply, I just brought fly fishing equipment , also ordered some flies that are also affective for carp, need your guidance as im planning for not only trout in Gilgit but also Snake head, carp , mahasheer, shairmahi in tarbela, haro river, river sind in attock, few streams in swabi
Looking farward

this site encourage me to try fly fishing


http://www.msu.edu/~connert/carpfly.htm

I think Cabelas sells carp flies too.

Honestly speaking, I personally would'nt fly fish for warm water species other than as a practice for trout fishing, that too only for small stream trout.

My first love is lure fishing, even if I'm after big trout I'd rather cast a spinner or a plug than a fly.

Its actually funner to fly cast than it is to play fish on fly tackle. Its also full of technicalties, most of the time you cant fish without getting your line tangled in treess several times.

Anyway its better than baitfishing, and in Pakistan (especially North Punjab) almost 80% of the fishing to be had is carp fishing, so fly fishing for carp might be worthwile.

mobeen bhai its news for me about carp flies

ji Shah ji, carp on flies...


Is it exciting?
wooly bugers, blood worms, cadies, leaches, grasshopers, ants, mulberry are used for carp

In Haro river, i saw people using real mulberry to catch carp
and an algae locally called jhaila to catch Mahseer by using fly fishing tech.

Mobeen,

I used to catch trout on mulberries, shetoot as we call them. This was in kashmir a long time ago. Trout would gather under mulberry trees waiting for the fruit to fall into the water. The trick was to cast with a 'plonk' under the tree and let the bait flow down naturally. And bang!

Not Flyfishing but Fruitfishing!

Thats interesting, fruit fishing
I have heard people use tomatoes to catch fish too ..
What other fruits can be used, would love to try those,
As they are easy to get than the other baits that we use

Mobeen did you ever use "Boilies for carp fishing"
is that carp bait use full in Pakistan/India?

Fig is the first name which comes to mind and the use of it as bait is wide spred. As ken mentioned Shahtoot is used by many anglers in Kashmeer as told to me by Dr. Ghai. (You know him ken-dont you)

Regards,

Ali

To All, thanks for shairing,

Dried mulbery nd figs are available at dry fruit shops, may be it work,


Fakhir, I never used boilies, but I think they will work on slow flowing waters, My friend Amir Riaz once used his famous boilies (Shaphan call them gulab jamen and chum chum ) in Tarbella lake, but no results

hahaha

Shaphan told me about that gulab jamen

next time i will try it too ... let see !
its same like that chemical.

was Amir Riaz used same technic which UK ppl use..?

hi guys

On that site mobeen has mentioned those flies seem kind of expensive you guys try out this site seems the rates are a lot more reasonable so is the shipping

http://www.theflystop.com/index.html

vincent