The brown water division of the Warmwater Insurgents today consisted of myself and four other forum members: Fishidiot, Bart, fritz and wildbrowntrout. We had a fun but very challenging day chasing the Golden Bones on the Tully. We saw a lot of fish, but seeing isn't always catching when it comes to carp. We only actually hooked up with 3 carp and only one was brought to hand. Most of the fish we saw were congregated in big pods and cruising or holed up in woody structure and not a lot of actively feeding fish were observed. These conditions make for tough carpin'. The carp in the Tully do appear to be a bit less spooky than many carp but you just can't make 'em eat. Wildbrowntrout was doing well early in the jam nailing the smallies and he also was one of the crew that actually hooked into a carp on his 5 weight outfit. I believe the biggest fish of the day was hooked by Bart and he did a fine job with the fish through its first hard run but somehow that fish came unbuttoned as well. I was pumped to see both of them get into a fish and gain the experience that they did because most of what we learn about flyfishing for carp is learned through experiences like these. Some of our members actually took a bit of a break mid day and starting throwing terrestrials at some of the red striped, spotted, surface feeding and much less intelligent species of fish that inhabit the Tully. One of them was determined to be one of the Tully Cutty-bow strain. :-o Fishidiot finally brought redemption to the BWD-WWI crew by bringing the gold to the net. Not a huge fish but a victory in and of itself. The one thing that we did prove today is that carpin' ain't easy. I really enjoyed the day and hope that everybody that was there took something beneficial away from it. Thanks guys.
