A few years back I set out with a goal to learn all I could about catching carp on the fly.  Carp have always been an intriguing species to me, mostly because of their massive size.  My first experience with fishing for carp came sometime around the age of 8 or 9.  I was blessed to grow up in a neighborhood with several fishing ponds.  Most of the ponds had bass and bluegill, but a couple of them had a small population of very large grass carp.  Day in and day out, I did all that I could to try and catch these wary fish.  I tried every fly in the box.  I even went to several fly shops around town in search of carp flies, only to discover that they didn’t really exist at the time.  One of my old favorite shops in Boise, Anglers (the Orvis shop) had an employee that gave me a handful of flies he had tied up for carp, free of charge.  I don’t recall his name, but I am still grateful for his generosity.  Even these flies couldn’t fool the picky grass carp, although they would have been very effective for their less picky cousins!  Eventually I discovered I could catch them by tying a clump of grass onto a bare hook with Monofilament line.  Yes, it was technically bait fishing, but as a young kid I didn’t really care.  I just wanted to feel the pull of a massive three-foot fish on the end of my line.  Now, some fifteen years later, I can say with confidence I know how to stick carp on the fly just about anywhere in Idaho.  I’ve fished all over the state, in a variety of different situations.  Some very technical, others not so much.  In the near future, I plan to do a feature on several different places to fish for carp in the state of Idaho.  Enjoy some photos of my carp fishing adventures thus far in 2015. The Snake River: Utah Blackfoot Reservoir Lake X