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Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast

613 | The California Carp Hunter with Dagur Árni Guðmundsson - Guidebook Co, Iceland, Clint Eastwood

Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast

Dave Stewart

Hobbies, Wilderness, Leisure, Sports

4.7531 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/613

Presented By: Guide Book

If you had the choice to fish Iceland or the central coast of California, which would you choose? And what if you had to choose between Atlantic salmon and fishing for carp on the fly? Our guest is a guide in both of these areas. And today you're gonna get a front seat to find out why you should choose carp and the tips you need to understand carp behavior so you can catch more fish next time you're on the water.

Dagur, The California Carp Hunter, is here to take a deep dive into catching carp on the fly with a focus on fishing lakes in the Central Coast of California. You're gonna find out what dimples on the ground mean and how this will help you find more fish. You're going to know how to catch fish around the carp, spawn something that many people get wrong, and you'll also hear about this amazing algae hatch and how you can match the algae hatch. Plus, you're gonna find out which moon is perfect for carp fishing and the story of day's altercation with the Clint Eastwood family and how he ultimately made amends for our carp, the freshwater equivalent of bonefish.

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0:00.0

If you had the choice to fish Iceland or the central coast of California, which would you choose?

0:07.7

And what if you had to choose between Atlantic salmon and fishing for carp on the fly?

0:13.4

Our guest is a guide in both of these areas, and today you're going to get a front seat to find out why you should choose carp

0:19.4

and the tips you need to understand carp behavior so you can catch more fish next time you're on the water. This is the wetfly swing podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip, and what you can do to give back to the fish species you love. Hey, I'm Dave, host of the Wetfly Swing

0:38.7

podcast. I've been fly fishing since I was a little kid. I grew up around a little fly shop and

0:43.7

have created one of the largest fly fishing podcasts in this country. I've also interviewed more

0:48.3

of the greatest fly anglers than just about anyone in the world. Today, Day, a guidebook co-pro is here to take a deep dive into

0:57.3

catching carp on the fly with the focus on fishing lakes in the central coast of California.

1:02.9

You're going to find out what dimples on the ground mean and how this will help you find more fish.

1:08.8

You're going to know how to catch fish around the carp spawn,

1:12.0

something that many people get wrong. And you also hear about this amazing algae hatch and how

1:17.7

you can match the algae hatch. Plus, you're going to find out which moon is perfect for

1:22.2

carp fishing and the story of Day's altercation with the Clint Eastwood family and how he ultimately made amends.

1:30.7

Are carp the freshwater equivalent of bonefish?

1:33.8

You're going to find out right now.

1:35.4

Let's meet Day at Dogger underscore Fishhunter on Instagram.

1:41.2

How you doing?

1:42.5

I'm good.

1:43.3

How are you?

1:43.9

Good, good. You have a name that's definitely hard to pronounce. How are you? Good, good.

1:45.0

This is, you have a name that's definitely hard to pronounce. I'm going to let you do. I want you pronounce your name for everybody. Yeah, so my name is Daewr. Diwyr, it's my whole name. So it's coming quite difficult for Americans to say it. Yeah, it is. So we'll stick with Dave. I guess I'm assuming you fish in Iceland, so that's kind of part of your background.

2:03.2

We're going to talk about that, a little bit of that today, but you split your time between Iceland and California in the Central Coast, focusing on carp, trout and stripers and other species out there. So we're going to talk, go deep, I think, into California and Central Coast today. But before we jump into that and

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