Tag: carp on fly
esCARPment Carp Fly Fishing Results
esCARPment Central Texas Carp Tournament Phenomenal Success
Here are the results for the esCARPment tournament for 2018 (not 2017)!
FROM McLean Worsham:
“Hi Shannon, Glad to share with you. This year, drought conditions and high winds made for challenging conditions. Despite that multiple anglers had phenomenal days with 732.5 total inches of carp caught by 8 anglers. Robert Hensley and Sam Arguello both had world class days and set the bar extremely high for next year. Sam landed 11 carp for a total of 209.5 inches securing 2nd place, while Robbie landed 14 carp for a total 314.75 inches securing him 1st which is also the most productive day of fly carping in the Texas hill country just about any of us have ever heard of. The race for third was a close one between Eric Julius and Josh Smith coming down to just 1 inch with Eric taking 3rd after a 40 minute fight with his largest fish. Ryan Schaper had only one carp on the day that turned out to be 32.5 inches and 20 pounds securing him the single biggest fish of the tournament award. We will try to get a writeup on the website soon.”
I apologize to those who were good at getting these results out to me promptly! This came in with a bunch of other information, and I did not have enough hours in my weeks to get this done at that time. Now You Know!
Look for a lengthy story on Texas carp tournaments coming in Lone Star Outdoor News soon!
Monday Morning Starting in Last Place Fading Fast
Holy Carp Tournament and Bass World Championships – Over and Done I Completely Missed
Welcome to Your Monday Morning, or what’s left of it!
Good Monday Morning! If you are a music lover, I am spinning Kandace Springs right now — what a sweet voice. There’s nothing quite like a young voice that you know will only get better with age – unlike MINE!
In the science and art of fly fishing, in this instance for carp, we can certainly apply some mathematics as well – even if I hate math. Take your fly fishing action curve and bend it straight up, UP and AWAY right now. We are at the height of the carp fly fishing season, and there does not seem to be anything or anyone who can stop it. And by now, the frisky males who were paying little attention to flies? Well, they’re probably pretty famished.
I’ve missed a lot of Texas Fly Fishing news lately, and that includes the results of the world famous Bass World Championship held at Lake Fork, Texas. Tournaments, are by necessity, on weekends – and that means I am out for the foreseeable future. My weekdays are gold though!
I will get those Bass World results ALONG WITH the Houston carp tournament – HOLY CARP — as soon as they are available. At LEAST I GOT the headsup that there is a Dallas carp tournament, somewhere, sometime soon!?! I know nothing about it.
Today is already gone, so I will get you a report on Texas Fly Fishing PLUS a specific call on where the fish are on Lake Lavon, Texas. For now, enjoy this week OUTSIDE and send in your fish-pix for including in the Texas Fly Fishing Report. I love to show YOUR SUCCESSES more than mine.
Friday Texas Fly Fishing Report
Here’s the deal on Fly Fishing in Texas this Mother’s Day
First, don’t do it on Mother’s Day – that is if the mothers in your life matter. Next, if it doesn’t matter, get a look at this video and watch through to the end. That is when we get three other fly fishing guides to tell us what is happening in Texas Fly Fishing this weekend – AND BEYOND!
For this YouTube video — I heard from:
- Captain Ken Jones – www.kenjofly.com
- Captain William Townsend – www.lightandfly.com
- Guide Danny Scarborough – www.houstonflyfishing.com
Thanks for reporting, and if you guide and want to report – photographs and information are due by 1-pm every Friday, and you can TEXT THAT TO ME for best results. Give me images, preferably horizontal, and any text BUT INCLUDE name / date / location (in general), and I will publish your photos and reports. It really is that easy for you to be a part of these reports. THIS IS HOW the REPORTS were ORIGINALLY DESIGNED TO FUNCTION.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND AND LOVE YOUR MOMMA!
Keeping it Coming – New Carp Prospecting Video Plus Texas Fly Report
Carp guide prospecting and Texas Fly Fishing Report Update tropical storm Cindy
GIFTS KEEP ON GIVING
The plate was full this week, and with the call to repair a local fly fishing club’s website (down for several days now), my plot only thickens. AND, that’s the way I like it!
I am also getting a pretty good feed of your photographs for the Texas Fly Caster Instagram Feed – running behind, but thank you friends and readers for that! New news-tips are coming in as well, more like “you should check this out” tips really — requiring more legwork, more boat-work and more typing on these keys. Thank Goodness (that’s what I should call my wife, goodness), this half broke-in laptop is now paid off! And just in time to get a check from YouTube for all those ads you watch (so I guess you will now stop watching!).
We have passed the first peak of the carp season, and are moving steadily along to the next one which will be helped along by the rains coming over the next 24-hours.
So this video is a conglomeration of some footage from prospecting for carp in preparation for the two guide trips I did this past week, and at the end is the scroll with commentary, on the Texas Fishing Reports provided by Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. I am beginning to wonder about their accuracy based on years of reading, and this week’s UNMENTIONED tropical storm.
Who can blame the folks who assemble those reports really? (It’s the same folks that power the once famous (now dying) www.texasfishingforum.com) The bid for that job, of providing the reports for Texas fishermen, goes to? THE LOWEST BIDDER. The State can make exceptions (Yes, I know that for those of you wonks reading this) to the “Lowest Bidder” for bids, but rarely does.
The thing about Whack-A-Mole sand bass is … at least you don’t get a soggy tush, and you get any kind of bite you want – deep, mid and topwater are all contenders in this game – a game a lot like horseshoes and hand grenades.
Not only did we get on some carp this week, the sand bass are appearing on the lake – on top, and that means a great game of WHACK-A-MOLE for anyone interested — yes I can take you out for that exercise, and you can keep all the legal fish you catch. (No, I don’t clean them.)The sheer numbers, many of you are into that, put other locations to SHAME again this year. I have deals starting the first day of summer, and they’re called SUNDOWNERS – for those fishing, or fly fishing to eat (as I do).
Thanks for reading. I am guessing there’s enough red meat here for those of you who read, and are not on your family “VACA” right now.
If you’re in town, and ready to take the carp ride of your life, you know where to find me, right?
Monday Morning Sidewalk Looking Back at Sunday and Beyond
This YouTube fly fishing video reminded me of the second video I ever uploaded to YouTube way back in 2008.
SOGGY BOTTOM BOYS
Good morning! It’s another Monday morning sidewalk, and I am dragging! I forgot just what a workout it was to walk-and-wade the flats, but was reminded – by the windy walk we took yesterday on Lake Ray Roberts. The skiff would’ve been futile on a day with winds that strong, so the only way for my guru to get a much needed carp fix was to go for a fish walk.
It was windy, about 20-miles-per-hour sustained, and the south wind was pushing clouds overhead, which “turned the lights on-and-off” in a matter of seconds as we sight casted for carp.
There were carp aplenty, but they were well protected by the stirred waters, the intermittent clouds and heightened senses. We had plenty of opportunities, and finally (I think as the water hit the right temp) scored a few fish.
THE WEEK AHEAD
The big question of course; is this the weather we will have tomorrow, or Friday? The patterns seem to be less drastic, but it also seems like the talking weatherheads are still hedging their bets a bit. If this wind drops, conditions improve drastically. It may be time to seek a creek, or river!
Thanks for reading! Let me know what you know, and what you want to know. No matter what, travel safely to-and-from wherever you go in the Messtroplex these days. It’s getting a lot better on the North Texas highways, but distracted drivers can still write your name in stone … you’ll never see it coming.
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