A year ago I wrote about the spark that was needed to ignite the sport and develop it into something bigger. I suggested that we would start to see the development of a broader carp “scene” in perhaps 12 to 18 months. I was wrong. It’s been much faster than that. Back then we anticipated the inaugural Lake Fork Carp and
D L SO Buffalo tourney with some trepidation. We wondered if the tourney would be a success and whether Lake Fork’s leviathans would come to play. We needn’t have worried. Lake (and world) records fell, some of them twice, personal bests were logged, huge fish were landed, and the “Texas 44” entered into legend
faster than you could say Buffalo Bob! It certainly captured the imagination and the 2013 tourney was a sellout months ago. As this issue hits the virtual shelves, a field of anglers twice as large as last year, coming from Hungary, Italy, England, Canada, and all over the US, will be casting their lines in the hope of landing one of Fork’s legendary carp or buffalo. But if Fork was a huge success, no
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one could have imagined the sonic boom as fly fishing for carp took off. A few weeks ago, Tackle Trade World asked CarpPro about the carp scene in America. Joining the conversation was Tom Rosenbauer of Orvis, who spoke about the massive growth in interest in fly fishing for carp. It’s no idle talk either. In the CarpPro Fly Special, Trevor Tanner spoke to the fly