Neva! mwahahahahahahahahahhaha!
Just think of the gentle carp as giant large scaled golden trouts
One of my goals for this year - is to be like one of my heros (John Montana) and get one of these fish on a fly. I've caught them with a fly rod, even using a fly reel and line - but I was cheating, and tossing a "Bread fly" - the egg hook w/ bread ball, no indicator (that's what the end of the line is for, right?) - first time I had a fish take more than 50' of backing - that big ol' carp took about
200 feet of backing before I got it turned. Heh, 5 weight rod and 4lb tippet, didn't want to put the brakes on too hard...
I just sold my 10 weight rod, and this summer I'm going to look at replacing it with a more reasonable 6 or 7 weight. That 10 wasn't much fun to cast, and I'm pretty sure I could've flung a stocker trout on it without noticing it, or rather, a stocker trout might've helped load that rod a bit better
I might even "cheat" a little, and toss small jig-flies for carp with a spinning rod, to see how that works...