I've been out fishing maybe half a dozen times since my last post but things have been very slow over the past few months, we've been enjoying a hot spell of weather which has made the Sea Trout fishing barely existent due to the lack of rainfall.
So, I've been spending some of that time at local stillwaters. Colliford Lake on Bodmin Moor has been offering some fantastic sport in the heat, the local Carp population of the lake come up well into the shallows on hot evenings, you can't miss their dorsal fins breaking through water 5 feet from the bank.
There is a window of about an hour when the carp are less likely to be spooked by your presence and will take a fly more readily, usually around 7-8PM. The recommended trout flies for the lake work on the carp too, a gold ribbed Hares Ear got me my biggest Carp of the year so far, somewhere around 7 pounds by my estimation.
I've had smaller Carp take a yellow Montana also. I'm sporting my new Patagonia sling vest in these pictures, I just want to say ditch your traditional vest and get one of these, they are simply brilliant and as you'd expect from Patagonia very well made.
If you haven't fly fished for Carp give it a go you might like me "catch the bug", it's great sport and a good go to when the trout fishing is poor. Go to your local Carp lake and see if they will let you use a fly rod, most places do now.
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