Some Kind of Carp I Think

[wildcatcreek]

I get what you are saying now. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[CarpKing921]

I think most of this post is misunderstood. Nobody wants these fish around but if they come they might as well be utilized for sport of some type. If they get hear lets have some fun with em.

[carpmanjake]

I think most of this post is misunderstood. Nobody wants these fish around but if they come they might as well be utilized for sport of some type. If they get hear lets have some fun with em.

EXACTLY!

[pumpkinfisher]

DEADhead is dead on. I would say that these particular carp produce an incredible amount of damage. The are a risk to boaters as well. The can really hurt a person on boat going 20mph+.

[carpmanjake]

DEADhead is dead on. I would say that these particular carp produce an incredible amount of damage. The are a risk to boaters as well. The can really hurt a person on boat going 20mph+.

silver carp are the ones that jump. thats y i am saying all on the water recreation would stop if the sivers got here.

but we are mainly talking about the bigheads

[wildcatcreek]

Bigheads aren't the culprits of jumping. That's the Silvers. Bigheads just take over native species habitats by sheer numbers. Multiplying ridiculously. Fun as sin to catch though. Monstrously strong.

[pumpkinfisher]

only say the first page of this post, missed the second. I see now.

[rushing]

They look like they can do alot of damage.

Illinois Bowfishers member Darin Opel shot a 92.5-pound bighead carp, apparently the second biggest bighead documented in the United States, from the Mississippi River near Alton on Sunday, May 4.

USGS scientist Duane Chapman found only one bigger bighead in the United States, and only a couple in the world: ``I only know of one larger fish captured in the USA, from a lake in N. Texas. It was, apparently, 93 pounds. There is a bighead carp over 100 pounds in a museum in Pakistan, and Fauna Sinica makes mention of a fish of greater than 45 kg, which would be right at the hundred pound range.''

[CarpKing921]

Wow, If them things get up here (hope not) I'm going to figure out how to catch em thanks for the pic

[carpmanjake]

carp king. there are ways to do it. 1 way includes many dangling hooks aroun a method feeder, and mashing a banana around the feeder. the banana will like release small particals slowly for a while and bigheads and silvers will come and feed on the particals. and with any luck one of those hooks will snag one of them

[leech~~]

You have to think for a fish to get 92lbs like that, it has to be taking a lot of feed from some native fish one way or another!

[OTBASSER]

great point....you beat me to it!