Carp Fishing Guide Service

I have never used a guide service or been fly fishing, but if I decided to do either and could get time away from work to travel to Traverse City, Michigan I would seriously consider Jon's Guide Service.

From his web page:

Grand Traverse Bay and the Traverse city area located in Michgan provide some of the best carp fishing on a fly in the World! Thousands of carp enter the shallow flats of Grand Traverse Bays (East Bay / West Bay) to feed, sun, and spawn during the early months of summer. Golden bones are what carp have been nicknamed by those looking to try and fool this smart and shy fish.

 

A picture from JonsGuideService.com
providing a sampling of fly fishing for carp on Grand Traverse Bay.

 

Fly Fishing

 

I'm not a fly fisherman, but after watching videos like this one I am getting more and more interested.

Big Carp Caught on a Fly Rod

Well, here I go breaking one of my carp blogging rules right out of the gate...but I hope you'll agree that it might be worth it occasionally to see very large carp like the one in this video.

 

 

In the video description he mentions a 40 lb. estimated weight and something nearing 4 feet. At first I thought it was an obvious fish story. It's difficult to tell for sure from the video, but his guesstimate might be pretty close to correct from what I can tell.

 

I'd love to catch one like it someday.

 

BTW, I think this takes place in South Carolina.

Fly Fishing for Carp