Know your Carp !!!

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angler's here in america find sucker fish trash and carp to be a challenge . carp also make good bait for large predatory game fish .. :D
 
It's quite common here in Asia & is a source of food. I must say besides being a all right fishing fish, it's not bad eating too if one knows how to prepare it.
 
I live in the U.S. all the carp we have here are invasive, truthfully...I don't want them around but I do like carp and their relatives all the same. We do have suckers though, they are pretty "carp-like" I guess, despite being from a different family. I like the Crucian carp, would not mind owning one of those some day, till then goldfish will do.
 
Don't forget about these bad boys! :)

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Ya, we have quite a few different sp. of carp.... I don't know them all...
 
fishrmann2;641846; said:
Ya, we have quite a few different sp. of carp.... I don't know them all...




I think you have but could be quite wrong

Common Carp
Mirror Carp
Grass Carp
Bighead Carp
Silver Carp
Black Carp

My favourite is the mirror Carp just love the things get out there with a rod in the summer and have a go and put that bloody bow away.:naughty:
 
We do also have those asians now too... grrr..

I'll pass on the carp fishing... but thanks! :) I'm a tournament bass angler.. ;)
 
fishrmann2;641874; said:
We do also have those asians now too... grrr..

I'll pass on the carp fishing... but thanks! :) I'm a tournament bass angler.. ;)



Don’t take the gibes about the bow fishing to bad you will get plenty more it’s an English thing;) Dan and I don’t have the joys of Bass fishing like you do :( but as you probably know Europeans take Carp fishing very seriously. But a good few Americans and Canadians are getting into it now.

http://www.canadiancarpclub.on.ca/

http://www.canadiancarpin.com/

http://www.carpanglersgroup.com/

http://www.carpamerica.com/forums/

http://www.americancarpsociety.com:8080/ACS/american_carp_league.jsp

http://www.americancarp.com/

The digs will go on like I rib Dan about being a Northerner and Dan ribs me for be an Essex lad to you we are the sad ones that love trash fish you well just like to kill them with arrows.:D
 
:D that I do! lol

You guys get some great pike fishing over there too! Do you know of a company called Pike Master Lures? I talk with those guys weekly and they buy a lot of our products.
 
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