The Midwest Drift 2015 Carp Swap

The Midwest Drift graciously agreed to take over the reigns of the world's best carp fly swap after Mctage from Fly-Carpin handed over his labor of love this spring. Organzing a swap of this magnitude, actually more of a vector since the swap possesses both direction and magnitude, takes serious effort and time commitment. So a big tip of the hat to the TMD crew!


Check out all of the photos and recipes from the fly swap, and even a few step by step tutorials. The Come at Me Craw is featured here.

Latergrams - Week 5

Trying to get my swap flies for the Midwest Drift and some salty stuff in before leaving for Hawaii.

Getting the assembly line ready for my entry in the Midwest Drift carp fly swap hosted by @zachjanssen #carpfood #flytying #flyfarming #carponthefly #carppro #artisanflies

A photo posted by Jean-Paul Lipton (@roughfisher) on Jan 28, 2015 at 8:31pm PST

The battle between native and invasive species, northern crayfish versus the invasive rusty crawfish. The Come at Me Craw in different color schemes. #carpfood #flytying #flyfarming #carponthefly #carppro #artisanflies

A photo posted by Jean-Paul Lipton (@roughfisher) on Jan 28, 2015 at 8:30am PST

The Thunderbird tied with a peacock hackled collar. #carpfood #flytying #flyfarming #carponthefly #carppro #artisanflies

A photo posted by Jean-Paul Lipton (@roughfisher) on Jan 27, 2015 at 7:24pm PST

Ono kine grindz: Spam Musubi made #hawaiianstyle. Broke da mout! Less than a week until I touchdown in #HNL. #flytying #flyfarming #artisanflies

A photo posted by Jean-Paul Lipton (@roughfisher) on Jan 30, 2015 at 9:08am PST

@meredithmccord grabbing a few IGFA world records for smallmouth buffalo using some #carpcrack. Congratulations! #Repost @meredithmccord with @repostapp.
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Capt Kirk Kirkland and I took the sweep of all 7 tippet IGFA world records (from a 9.5lbs fish on 2lbs on up to the 20lbs class) for the Smallmouth Buffalo. Caught on the Trinity River near the Livingston Dam all on the "Carp Crack" fly. Orange was the most popular. (The brown and black that worked as well, stripping very long and slow) #igfaworldrecords #kirkkirkland @smithoptics @abelreels @romaboots @patagoniaflyfish

A photo posted by Jean-Paul Lipton (@roughfisher) on Jan 31, 2015 at 10:13am PST

Fly Carpin 2014 Carp Fly Swap

My entrants to the Fly Carpin 2014 Carp Fly Swap, a drift of Whistle Pigs.

Check out McTage's swap page to see all of the tasty shizz that has been submitted to this year's swap. Forty tyers, that's a lot of fly porn!

CarpPro Issue 2

Dudes and dudettes , you're doing yourself all a disservice if you haven't yet checked out Issue Two of the revamped CarpPro magazine. Not only is it free, but there is extensive coverage of the 2013 Fly Swap to end all fly swaps, held by CarpPro pro staffer Trevor Tanner. I'm talking serious fly porn here folks. Arguably the best fly swap on the internet hands down, all species included. And as always, tons of carp content.


Of special note is a call out to all you janky carpers out there from Will Rice. The Blue Monkey Challenge. Page 74. Do it now!

Fly-Carpin's 2013 Fly Swap

Here are my entries for Fly-Carpin's 2013 Carp Fly Swap. As always, my flies are welcome company with some of the industry's best professional and amateur carpers and fly tyers. Can't wait to get my hands on my share!

2012 Swap Flies

Fruits of the 2012 fly swap hosted by McTage. As you may notice, I am not sporting the full complement of flies as was offered to the participants. Rather, I opted for a handful of tasty looking snacks that should provide some perspective and inspiration behind the bench. No offense should be taken by the other participants, as I already have stashed in my fly bank several of the patterns that were offered up in the swap. I felt it redundant to receive these flies, when others haven't had a chance thumb over and drool on the offerings from John Montana, Kevin Morlock, Wendy Berrell, et al. In addition, due to the popularity of the swap, more participants had signed up than was anticipated. Since only ten flies were required per tyer and there were 22 participants, not everyone was going to receive a fly from each other. Hence, me offering up a Carp Crack to all the tyers participating so nobody had to suffer from crack fever. Also, I hoped that be me not accepting all of my entitlement, a few others could benefit from the gain. Many thanks to McTage for hosting this year's swap. Perhaps the torch shall be passed for 2013.