My carp fishing is done on shallow water with a muddy bottom. When tailing the carp bury their heads in the mud and are unable to see anything. Very difficult to get a strike. When you do get the fly in the hole it is often sucked up and spit out before you know you even have a strike. May have to change up my tactic a little. Gosh forbid I use a strike indicator to dangle the fly off the bottom.

buckhunter...I grew up around Lake Erie, and pursued those carp in the muddy cattail waters around Sandusky Bay...think you need to trade your carp fly in for an arrow. We shot lots of 'um. Saw a tail floppin in an old screen that was in the water shooting carp one time..pulled out the fish and it was a gar stuck in the screen. Also stepped on a round, mossy rock in the same carp hole...and it was a snapping turtle that my brother and I finally got in the bottom of a wheel barrel and took it home...parents made us take it back to the Bay, and put it back.

Sayfu, It was the best year ever for shooting carp with my bow. So good in fact it just got boring. Found two new places teaming with carp and I am not exaggerating when I say it was nothing to have 2 dozen tailing carp within 30 feet. If I could perfect catching them on a fly it would be better than cold beer and halter tops.