I found this to be a very interesting trip! We intended to target smallmouth during a mayfly hatch but found they hadn't quite moved in on the easy meal yet. Instead the carp were in the buffet lines around mayfly swarmed trees gulping up those that fell in the water.

I used a Nikko hellgrammite as a finesse topwater lure to mimic a mayfly and trick several carp into biting using the same method I would for smallmouth, essentially topwater bass fishing for carp!

Here's where you can find the Nikko Hellgrammites I was using in this video: https://amzn.to/2JSvN2W

I rigged the hellgrammite with a 1/0 Owner Mosquito light hook