This one time on the river...

[crazyice]

Man, Tyler and I hit the Mississippi and put in solid effort last weekend for flats. We got one decent hit that was most definately a flat. Other than that the most action was from these stupid things.

We managed five of the critters, four for me and one for Tyler. I even got one out in the deep channel! But the whole night was okay, a good learning experience none the less. We did manage one decent channel, right at 7 lbs.

Probably the funniest thing of the night was the flying asian carp that surprised the heck out of us at around 2:30 when we decided to move! Had one almost hit the side of the boat!

[mason04]

we have been getting alot of action from turtles also. i think alot of the bites we miss are from turtles and gar.

[sparcebag]

craze those asian carp were you below lock&dam#3?#4?

[Tyler Holm]

we were fishing pool 4.

We saw hundreds of Asian carp, just like in the bow hunting videos. Those things were cruising all over the place and getting major air. We were motoring about 3-5mph and I'm confident there were times where 15-20 carp were in the air all at once (right near the boat)

[ec30_06]

Time to bring the bow to pool 4

[Shack]

If you see those thing's, are you not suppose to report them?

I think with as many times as I read the reg's this year, I thought I read that. Could be wrong!

Nice turtle and channel!!!!!

[crazyice]

I am not sure on the regs for that. But they definately were what we saw. Kinda funny, yet sucks that another invasive species is here to stay.

[DTro]

wow, that's crazy. I had no idea they made it this far already

[hanson]

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wow, that's crazy. I had no idea they made it this far already

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No kidding! How come this hasn't made the news at all?? News was all over it when they were showing up in Iowa and coming north, you'd have thought the world was going to end.

[sparcebag]

Now I think they should only be taken with steel shot,that'ed be fun!

[Scott K]

As for the turtles, what are you guys doing with them after catching them? They sure are a pain in the but! There should be something, has anyone tried eating one of them, can you legaly kill them and dispose of them? It would be nice to thin them out a bit. Years ago snappers were the pesty turtles in the river, now you dont see them. Its always the soft shell leather backs. One thing for sure is when you get one off your hook, and dont get it in the water and it is in your boat they sure can mess up your poles and boat quickly.

[Tyler Holm]

Yeah, I found it hard to believe at first also. We had several fish just cruising next to the boat and an occasional jump. We though there’s no way those are the flying/jumping asian carp already up this direction. We proceeded to turn around and go a little slower with the a 2mil light shinning in the water and then they erupted all over the place. We had them blasting out of the water every which direction and they followed us for several blocks.

This was only a week and a half ago. 4-8 FOW overtop of the sand bars right where the Chippewa River dumps into pool 4. This was about 2:00am. Shine your light in the water and motor about 3-5+mph. Can’t miss them. Several hundreds easily. We probably could have held the net out and got a couple.

[sparcebag]

Tylor Did you report them to the DNR?? You should even if its been reported before,THEY GOTTA BE HELD AT BAY AT LEAST!!

[Tyler Holm]

I've got them reported to Jay Rendall, Coordinator of the MN DNR Invasive Species Program