Posted on May 03 2017
Carp may be an invasive species, but many fly fishers love them.
Photo courtesy Mike Mazzoni
Unlike trout, common carp (Cyprinus carpio) are unattractive, slimy, feed almost exclusively below the surface, and rarely inhabit clear mountain streams—choosing instead to live in turbid or brackish waters. For these reasons, the species was denigrated as a “trash fish” by . . .
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