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 ...
TRAVERSE CITY — People used to poke fun at Dave McCool because he likes to fish for carp with a fly rod. Carp, after all, are reviled by many anglers in the United States, thought of as a rough, ...
The bomb and pellet is a tactic you cannot be without on commercial fisheries when carp are the target. The bomb has a way of consistently picking out the larger fish in a venue too, which can make it ...