Looks like that shad can fit into the gar's mouth. But......is that longnose? The snout seems short. Still that doesn't mean they are efficiently to control carp populations.
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Yeah, it's a long nose. Of course it fit in it's mouth. I pulled it out of the gar's stomach. 
IMO, there isn't a native fish that provides "effective" control to carp, especially large ones.
IMO, there isn't a native fish that provides "effective" control to carp, especially large ones.
Yeah, it is my current Blanco river record at 46.5"
The only ones we have in there are longnose and spotted.
The only ones we have in there are longnose and spotted.
my condolences to you who fish and recreate the great lakes. those asian carp suck! tho. not as extreme 40yrs. ago muskies were mistakenly stocked into a canadian river that ran into maine. now hundreds of miles of pristine trophy trout waters are no more. only muskie. muskie aren't native to maine so our i.f and w put no limit to these fish but only managed to knock the numbers down. the muskie like the carp are here to stay. all we can do is use every way to keep their numbers in control as we can as theres no way to get them out once established. some up here are trying to get the muskie regulated but the bios. are afraid that someones going to spread them around to other native trout waters. either way we have to deal with them. unfortunately muskie eat everything so they don't coexist w/ any of the local fish. s. maine has the same problem w/ pike. pretty soon we won't have to go north and west for big pike and muskie.
If I am not mistaken but most trout species are not native to Maine and to my knowledge, majority of lakes has to be stocked with trout from hatcheries. Trout has been introduced everywhere on the earth and causing problems with the natives. Its funny that someone got upset that a predatory fish thats eating their favorite sport fish and not realized that their favorite sport fish are not even native. Many sport fish has been introuduced everywhere in United States.
http://www.theoec.org/campaign/asian-carp-lake-erie
the article, from the Ohio Enviromental Council about the sampling of the asian carp. Hell, if theres one species that eats them im sure it will help. People just need to learn to like eating them and we can wipe em out like everything else (sarcasm)
the article, from the Ohio Enviromental Council about the sampling of the asian carp. Hell, if theres one species that eats them im sure it will help. People just need to learn to like eating them and we can wipe em out like everything else (sarcasm)
There's few individual Asian carps have been caught in Great Lakes over years but no evidence of them reproduced in Great Lakes. http://nas2.er.usgs.gov/viewer/omap.aspx?SpeciesID=551 No known silver carp has been caught in the Great Lakes so far.
Also I should noted that grass carps are already reproducing in all Great Lakes but not Lake Superior for awhile.
^ I hope your right and they dont spread into it, i dont mind the grass carps, theyre pretty fun to fish for but i just dont want 20 lbs of gold fish on roids taking me out next time i go wakeboarding haha
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maine is the only state left that has native brook trout. in the southern part of maine, there are waters stocked w/ browns, rainbows but up north here our waters have never been stocked and are strictly regulated for the last pure strains of brookies left in the u.s. we are also the only state in the u.s. that has a landlocked population of arctic char called blueback trout. we've lost 150 miles of native brookie rivers to muskie as well as half a dozen lakes. so yes we know what we are talking about when it comes to invasives destroying the last stronghold of brook trout in this country. they're the 1st. species to go when the muskies were introduced.
