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Originally Posted by TNtransplant08
BD,
I may speaking a foregin (spelling?) language, so if I make no sense, I apologize  but are there any flies that look like corn? If so, might be worth a try? I remember when I was a kid growing up, I'd buy a can of corn at the store, throw a bunch of kernals on the hook. It was like candy to them! |
There is actually a "corn cluster" fly that is commercially sold - it looks like this:
Some people will toss out some corn, chum the fish in, and then cast a fly like this into the middle of the corn pile for the carp to take.
There's not much skill involved in chumming the fish in like that though - it's kind of an beginner's way to fly fish in my opinion. If someone has never caught a carp on the fly and wants to see what it's like, it's a quick way to get an intro to it, but really you might as well just put the corn on the hook and fish with bait. Pretty much the whole point of fly fishing for me is the challenge - it would be sort of like deciding to bowhunt with a traditional longbow and then doing it over a bait pile. If I'm going to get a TARP carp on the fly like I'm after, I'm satisfied to do it the "real" way without the corn.
bd