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Archive for category Carp
Colorado Carping
Jul 18
BB and I decided to try our hand at Brownlining in Colorado, with that in mind I took it upon myself to reach out to James from Primal Fly.
If you follow Primal Fly then you know James has left Colorado and started a new chapter in Florida, fortunate for us his crew is still in Colorado and his legend lives on!
James was kind enough to put us in touch with M. Gracie (a legend to us..)
After talking with Gracie we decided to meet up and try our hand at Carping; While trekking out to the secret destination we stopped at Discount Flies.
When we walked in I noticed a guy behind the counter with a Primal Fly shirt on, after talking to him I find out it’s David Luna from the Primal Fly Crew.
David gave us the low down on the carp and gave us insight on to some techniques we didn’t know about, after being skooled we headed out to meet up with Gracie.
Here are some pics of the area we fished.
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…was told this lake was dead, seriously the owner said, “nothins in there, go ahead…waste your time if you want”. First cast brought up this whopper blue gill (about the size of a quarter), after 20 minutes and 10 more panfish of varying sizes later I saw the splish splash of something more substantial, tied on a blue dragon and gave it a go and was rewarded with the infamous chinese mudhog! The only bummer was my camera decided to start crappin out and not show me anything on the display so I clicked away regardless and only got one good shot. If I had to guess this fish was in the 2 to 3 lb range and was about 15 inches long.
-Franco
Scouting @ Lunch
Jul 21
BB and I are always looking for some new water, today was no different. we decided to scout a strech of the river we saw by scouring google maps.
Here’s what we found
(Official Teaser) This place is full of life, lots of fry, sunfish and Pigz (aka silent Ghost)
More to come.
My “brotha from anotha motha”, De’Angelo, caught all the lunch time action on his spiffy new iPhone 3G S. That’s right! UrbanFlyy-style action shotz …..
Too bad I couldn’t land this bad boy…
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I had a few hours to play hooky today so I went back down to that honey hole in the OC with the “golden trout”. Well they were all there with their tails in the air but they were considerably pickier today. I must have snagged at least ten of ‘em just trying to put the fly in front of their face. LoLz. Finally got one to take and it was well worth the price of admission! This sucker took off so fast it burned my fingers on the fly line and then knocked my thumb with the reel handle. ARGH! When he finally slowed down enough, trying to pull on him was like trying to lift an anchor with my fly rod. I’ve never seen my rod do that. Dang! I was cringing the whole time think it was gonna break on me. HA! The only way I could gain some ground this sucker was to hop in the river and start making my way toward him. I took up about 30′ of line splashing around in there (sure felt good, it was freakin’ hot today) and then we just sat there playing tug-o-war for a couple of minutes!! He finally relented and I was able to slowly bring him home. Here’s the prize. He was a little smaller than the last but he had way more kick! Got the burn marks and bruises to prove it! WHAT A FIGHT! Thank you! MOAR!!!!!!
The “Golden Trout” of OC
Jul 10
Here’s a sampling of the “golden trout” available in the OC. They provide blistering runs well into the backing. This one was about 24-26″ long. No idea on its weight. Caught it on a leech pattern with a 5wt using 4x tippet.
Lucky Dawg!
Jul 10
I just got word that BB is off work today and has hooked up with one of our Urban freindz, at a local river..
More info to come as I get the calls and pics!
