There are two perceptions of common carp among anglers in the United States. One group believes that carp are dumb and that nothing could be easier than going after them. They believe that learning ...

A couple of weeks ago my buddy Paul Dubas and I were fishing the Tongue River and trying to connect on trout and smallmouth bass. Though we had some hits on streamers, neither Dubas nor I managed to ...

Chuck Atkins stood waist-deep in chilly water with a fly rod in hand as a predicament spread out before him–dozens of carp feeding vigorously near the Chicago shore of Lake Michigan. For a purist fly ...

I didn't grow up carp fishing - not in the traditional sense, anyway. Back in high school, living along the upper James River in Virginia, I was broke but restless, and every summer night seemed to ...

The mass of lily pads jerked and swayed 10 feet in front of our approaching boat. Something big was bulldozing its way through the watery undergrowth. With fly rod in hand, I watched a 2-foot-long ...

Under the general heading of "Know Before You Go," having at least some idea of how and where to catch carp will be of service prior to Saturday's Carpocalypse 2014. This is the one-day carp-only fly ...

The common carp widely is considered to be a "junk fish" in the U.S. even though they were brought here initially for their food value. The carp is pound-for-pound one of the larger and harder fish to ...

People are also reading… “Or a carp,” Josh reminded me. If someone had asked me a month ago if I wanted to catch a bass on a fly rod, I’d say sure, but it wasn’t really a goal. Then Josh suggested ...

On a recent trip to Kansas, I fished a tributary to the Missouri River: Bear Creek at Weston Bend State Park, Missouri. My initial purpose was to walk the shores of the Missouri. I’ve seen bigger ...

Landing a monster carp is every angler's dream, but it takes the right carp fishing rod to make it a reality. The cornerstone of your carp-catching arsenal is undoubtedly your rod and while top-tier ...