TRASH FISH FALL TO THE ZULU TERENCE BABICH I am very guilty of spending hours targeting fish that most people wouldn’t even steal a glance at. I will spend days targeting fish that others won’t even spend a minute or two on. One of those species that seems to have a bad rap and is often described as a trash fish (or worse) is the common carp. The really nice thing though about carp is that they occur in abundance almost everywhere and they can be targeted in a myriad of ways. Some techniques are already known to us and there are many www.saflyfishingmag.co.za
more still to be discovered. Mostly, I find that we are very narrow-minded in our methods to target carp. I have become seriously guilty of this and have for the most part partaken in the snobbish method of sight fishing for them. Hahahahha, it’s funny how an angler’s ears prick up and how their attention is captured the moment you mention sight fishing or dry flies. Yeh, we are snobs, but I believe that there is actually really good carp fishing to be had blind fishing for them.Blind fishing to carp is probably even better than most of our days 16
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