Not a bad weekend for the Bitches of Primalfly targeting urban carp with our very long sticks. The warming water is putting the fish into a ferocious spawning mode and the pods are crashing everywhere in the shallows. The skeptics seem to think that fish won’t feed during spawn mode, but this is not true. We have been hooking into fat egg ridden and milt filled fish spewing smelly goodness all over the place. Clearly, everyone needs a snack after a little love making and carp are no exception. The majority of fish have been taken on Snyder’s homegrown jumbo-red-sparkle chronomids, and plain black and/or purple H2O leeches using a strip-and-pause presentation, casted to shallow water mudders and rooting fish.

Butters Luna landed a sweet 30lb plus grassie on a black leech, thus spanking the theory that these fish are pure vegetarian. Quite frankly, the grassies are extremely aggressive, and you can plan on seeing your backing within seconds after a hook up. You’ll wind up fighting these slobs for 15-30 minutes on even robust 7-8wt set ups. We have also been banging grassies on damsels, hoppers, and baetis emergers, which proves they are simply omnivores (and we need to update the biology books). The last monster grassie James took was on a size 18 olive damsel emerger.

Here is a little porn for your viewing pleasure…

Michael “Milt” Gracie - Hooked Up

Butters “The Wild Manchee” Luna - Hooked Up

Brother Johnny with a Miltliscious Mudder

Wipe that grASS Porn smirk off your face!

Snide, with a Miltious Maximus Japorrtunity

Grassie taken top water on a size 18 Damsel Emerger

Got MILT?

Tags: fly fishing, grassies, myth, spawners, Urban Carp

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