Flyfishing for Catfish

Brian Schmidt and Jay Zimmerman head to a lake in Colorado to prove that catfish can be taken on a fly rod. They are armed with 6 weight rods and for flies they have the Meat Whistle and the Backstabber carp fly.
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Sports

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• Flyfishing
• for
• Catfish
• Barr's
• meatwhistle
• John
• Barr
• Brian
• Schmidt
• Jay
• Zimmerman
• backstabber
• carp
• fly
• colorado

[scrubnasty226]

I have a question. When catching big carp or catfish on fly rods, do the pole snap easy or do you feel like they're going to since they're so long? Also what would you recomend to use in the fly departmend for bass and for catfish?

[ZimmermanFlyFishing]

@scrubnasty226 I have seen fly rods snapped by large carp...but it was user error. Best Carp fly (IMO) "Backstabber" best bass fly (angain...IMO) is the Texas Ringworm!

[ZimmermanFlyFishing]

No worries, brother! See ya out there!

[cancerkid888]

what size rods were you using? 

[ZimmermanFlyFishing]

@cancerkid888 Six weights....

[TheColoradoFisherman]

I love this video!

Two questions: 1) how do you locate these catfish? 2)where is this?

Thanks!

[TheRuffells]

@ZimmermanFlyFishing People have favorite flies for things but can't really say one is better than another. They all have thier time and place for differnet speices! lol I love your videos by the way.

[zachthefisherman]

I catch really great catfish when fishing for carp with headstand nymphs!

[wattstrollers]

I firmly feel if i can see the fish then i can get it to eat (or spook it trying) nearly everything can be caught on a fly. at least i havent fond anything that couldnt

[dazachoman]

Caught a big cat today at Lagerman res on the backstabber. Thanks for the recommendation Zimmerman!