Monster 16-Pound Bass Caught in California

[MN_Rebel]

So similar to what happens in northern lakes with introduced Gizzard Shad every spring then. Thanks for the info. I know carp reproduce fast but I've honestly never seen any of my local lakes with dead carp on the shore, I suppose that's just luck though.

Yeah you don't have any freezing winters that can turn lakes into an ice rink. The ice here is thick as 2 to 3 feet and if we gets snow on the ice, they cut off sunlight resulting in aquatic plants going die and the fish community is on the limited oxygen levels. When you add a huge school of big carps in the fish community, they used up all oxygen pretty fast.

 

[MN_Rebel]

I think my cat pays more attention to what I say than you do.

Anyways.....

MN must have the worst population of carp in the US, if not the world. I've never heard of so many die offs and everything you say about carp.

One would think in Europe with all the carp over there they would have the same problems as MN has. Seems like with all those over populated carp in MN they would have a kill on site, but they don't as they can be returned legally back into the same waters.

Why are common carp a regulated invasive species? Why aren't they a prohibited species? If common carp are so bad, why aren't they doing more about it?

Because Europe didn't have this problem thanks to their fishing regulations and they seldom have any issues with overpopulation of carps. But they raised different domesticated strains of common carps that is too fat to breed properly. That's why they needs to stock young carps annually. Their carps are quite different from our American carps.

As I already said, they have carp removal programs, hiring commercial fishermen to netting out the carps out. The reason why they are regulated species is because we do not want anyone to leaving dead fish on the bank. Prohibited species, means you cannot transporting the carps anywhere even if they're dead.

 

[krichardson]

Why don't we take Europe's example and hire commercial fishermen to do the same thing here?....and dead fish left on the bank benefits the wildlife,no?

 

[MN_Rebel]

Why don't we take Europe's example and hire commercial fishermen to do the same thing here?....and dead fish left on the bank benefits the wildlife,no?

It doesn't make any sense to funding on a less popular/undesirable fish to stocking them as a sportfish if they're not popular with MAJORITY of the public. No $$$, no hatchery. As for leaving dead fish, it will just stink up the fishing areas, especially at the public fishing areas and many dead fish are uneaten because there is too many dead fish to be consumed at once.

 

[JasonsPlecosCichlids]

Why don't we take Europe's example and hire commercial fishermen to do the same thing here?....and dead fish left on the bank benefits the wildlife,no?

MN has a Wanton Waste Law, I also realize not everyone abides by it. We need it in KY, you go to the KY dam and all you see is carcasses and the smell of carp, etc. with holes in them from the bow fishermen. Wildlife can eat it but when they are tossed on the bank where its a recreational area, that's not good and drives people away which then the state loses $$$.

 

[krichardson]

The game officials can clean up what the animals don't eat lol.....I kid, I kid.

 

[MN_Rebel]

The game officials can clean up what the animals don't eat lol.....I kid, I kid.

Unfortunately we have to clean them up to put a stop on complaints. When that happens, a conservation officer will starts to patrolling that particular area often and stop any violators. But there will always more new violators to replace the old violators

 

[krichardson]

This is true.

 

[spotfin]

LOL. I think there's always been that group of people who don't like them because they think they kill all the Bass. Just like the people who think Suckers eat each and every Trout egg. Both accusations are, of course, insanely false, and have been proven so through numerous research and studies.

I have seen suckers spawning with yellow perch and sunfish right behind them gobbling up the eggs.

 

[divemaster99]

I have seen suckers spawning with yellow perch and sunfish right behind them gobbling up the eggs.

And I've seen trout tailing Northern Hogsuckers and eat as many eggs as they can. It doesn't mean every egg is consumed as some always find there way to a crack in the gravel where nothing eats it. Same goes for trout eggs, there's no way that suckers or any other fish can eat every last egg or the stream wouldn't have a self sustaining population of them in the first place.