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 ...

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 ...

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As strategy or prediction, the comment rang true. “I could stand around and watch fish all day,” Tom Walther said from the bank of the South Platte River in downtown Denver. And during a ...

Harry Murray, Virginia’s high-profile trout and smallmouth bass fly fisherman, made a statement in his August “Murray’s Fly Shop Newsletter” that must have surprised some of his customers. He revealed ...

In this edition of The Evening Hatch: • Until you've experienced the sight-fishing challenge of targeting feeding carp, or trying to stop a ten-pound specimen on a blistering run with a 6-weight fly ...

While Alabama anglers are definitely bass crazy, with seasonal side-helpings of being crappie crazy and panfish crazy, one fish most never bother with is carp, either the common variety found in most ...

The Jurassic Flats Carp Clave is a gathering of carp-curious anglers and experienced fly fishermen in Boardman, Oregon. Anglers come for different reasons. Some have fished for trout all their lives ...

They are abundant, challenging and strong. Even so, people wrinkle their noses at the lowly carp, a species that some have nicknamed “sewer salmon.” But the warmwater fish does have a devoted and ...

An angler recently broke a Connecticut state fishing record after reeling in a freshwater fish that weighed almost 50 pounds. The Connecticut Fish and Wildlife Facebook page announced the massive ...