View Full Version : Flyfishing for Carp
rpnsteelheadlps
09-04-2003, 03:39 PM
Any of you ever been flyfishing for these nasty but awesome fighting fish ?
speyfly
09-04-2003, 04:45 PM
Yup! Really tuff fish cause they spook very easy. Sight fishing them is much like bone fish and they get very BIG.
rpnsteelheadlps
09-05-2003, 08:15 AM
I'm looking for some decent places to go around the Portland area. Do you know of any?
drbfish
09-07-2003, 10:21 PM
I have never been but the Willamette, blue lake, sturgeon lake (on Sauvie Island) and columbia sloughs.
Riverkeeper
09-07-2003, 10:42 PM
Check out the columbia slough between I-5 and Kelly Point Park. I canoed it a month ago and it as UNBELIEVABLE how many carp there were. 8-10 pounders. All Chrome :sick:
Park next to the bridge onto the old St. Johns landfill and either launch there and go upstream, or walk up the path between the slough and the tracks. Paddling would be best, but you have to have a pretty shallow running craft. It's actually a very cool area, more wildlife around there than anywhere else in the city.
DON'T EAT ANYTHING YOU CATCH. As if I really needed to tell you that... :hoboy:
rpnsteelheadlps
09-08-2003, 08:27 AM
I'd rather eat my mother in laws cooking than eat a carp. Doesn't that also have access to Smith & Bybee lakes ?
Originally posted by David Ulrich:
I'm looking for some decent places to go around the Portland area. Do you know of any? <font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">I would look around the Smith and Bybee lakes area in North Portland. This is near Terminal 6 and close to Kelly Point park.
[ 09-08-2003, 11:29 AM: Message edited by: Stew ]
Riverkeeper
09-08-2003, 04:35 PM
The stretch of the slough I was refering to is right next to smith and bybee, and the two are hydrolocially connected. In the last two years, Metro has been managing S&B as a wetland rather than an artifical lake, meaning they let it dry down all the way during the summer. The first year they did this, as the water receded, the carp all got concentrated in a small pool right behind the dam. They were writhing around in the mud by the thousands. When it finally dried and they all died, they paid an americorps crew to pitchfork out the carcasses because it stank so bad. Now some of the native marsh vegetation is returning to the lake beds which had been scoured by the carp for years.
Point is, there are fewer left in the lakes, but still lots in the slough. If you want a map of the area, let me know. There are some pretty out of the way places back there.