Wild Carp Companies Staff

Austin has been fishing for nearly his whole life, and took up carp fishing in 2008. Before then, he was and still is a multispecies angler, fishing for anything and everything.

Austin is an avid fly fisherman and took up carp as a target on the fly, but that suddenly became much bigger than just a part-time target species. He started employing European methods in late 2009 and the Common Carp quickly became his main target species. Even though Austin mainly fishes euro methods, he still prefers stalking for carp, either with a fly rod or conventional tackle. Austin fishes all over North Texas and his main waters are Lake Grapevine, Lake Texoma and many small neighborhood ponds.

Austin is a great advocate of the sport of carp fishing, having instructed several people in the last year on euro methods. He hopes that this will continue after becoming a part of the Wild Carp Companies team. He also is a figure in the local fly fishing scene, co-captaining a new website called Texas Fly Reports (www.texasflyreports.com), organizing fly swaps and fish-ins, and also rambling about topics on his fly fishing/carp fishing blog.

At this time, Austin’s goal is to finally catch a 30+ lb Common Carp, after having upped his Buffalo and Grass carp PB’s to over 30 lb in 2011.

 

Austin made history on March 3, 2012, when he achieved an IGFA world record for Junior Male category for his 50 lb, 6 oz smallmouth buffalo caught during the 2012 Lake Fork Carp & Buffalo Challenge.

You can contact Austin at austin@wildcarpcompanies.com or on his blog at www.pondbass.blogspot.com.

Austin is the Club Director for the Wild Carp Club of North Texas.

 

 

Austin Anderson set an IGFA Junior Male world record with this 50 lb, 6 oz smallmouth buffalo caught during the 2012 Lake Fork Carp & Buffalo Challenge.



Austin Anderson with an 11 lb common.

Wild Carp Club of North Texas Club Director Austin Anderson with a 38lb 10oz Smallmouth Buffalo caught at the famed Lake Fork, TX, home of the Lake Fork Carp and Buffalo Challenge.

 

Austin Anderson with a 19.3 lb mirror carp caught in Texas from Purtis Creek Lake.