Drove out to one of our local small reservoirs to walk the shore and see
if I could spot some carp feeding. I've found that the trick to taking
carp in the shallows is to find feeding fish. Too often the shallow carp
you see have f----in' on their minds instead of feeding. Trying to get
them to eat a fly just doesn't work (not that I can blame them).

I didn't spot alot of fish, but all the fish I spotted were feeding. I
started out with a damsel and got a couple follows but no takes. Next I
tried a boogery type of fly which just spooked the fish. Then I dropped
down to a hare' ear of about a size 14 and started taking fish. If I
didn't spook the fish with a bad cast every fish I cast to at least took
the fly. I missed a couple when I struck too soon after seeing them
inhale the fly - I just pulled it out from their mouth.

I fished for about a hour and a half and landed six fish and had several
more take a fly. Probably the most successful carp outing I've had in
terms of fish per hour. None were as big as the one Chas posted but on a
5 weight they were fun.

http://www.crystalglen.net/Fishing/Carpin.htm


Willi