MoCarp

???? they have stocked green snakes?

just have to look closer, try a dumpster by most boat ramps on a early morning, don't have to get in just follow the smell

I have some friends that fish up that way Smalliebigs and do pretty well but those listed waters are exceptional, fish run huge in those listed CT waters... the conn river fish can avg well over 20# with a real crack at a 40#+ I'd love to post some big fish waters here, if I did they wouldn't be long.... but when we do this is what happens

For the 1st time in US history a state wide limit has been passed to conserve and protect common carp stocks, including formation of designated trophy trout waters. Connecticut Fish & Wildlife have just announced the following new regulations for the creation of trophy carp waters and limits on the taking of carp from all other state waters. COMMON CARP There is now a creel limit of 5 common carp per day, with no more than 1 fish greater than 30 inches in length, except in Trophy Carp Waters. TROPHY CARP WATERS Batterson Park Pond, Connecticut River (including the portions of tributaries open year-round), Squantz Pond and West Thompson Reservoir are designated as Trophy Carp Waters with a one carp per day creel limit and a 26 inch maximum length for Common Carp. we have several waters in the Ozark's that rival these waters back east, one day I hope we will see some of our waters protected.

sometimes they just tell you they are "catfishing"..just saying....

The Missouri River near KC has several cool species like sturgeon, also the Kaw river in KS blue suckers are more common there than anywhere

Heres a nice Grasser he caught in NY central park

More Mike Iaconelli in the UK

Looks like Mike Iaconelli is over in the UK doing some Euro-Style, Alan Blair is like the KVD of carping don't say I didn't tell you carping is exploding in the USA #carpfever

Sewage water gets dumped after treatment yet CACA water getting into the watershed via floods, septic systems anything put on a lawn or roadway ends up in the water, population growth has a price, I have studied this a lot in the last 20 years, goose poop, carp, too many weeds...all scapegoats to the bigger problem, wetlands and vegetated ground can mediate to some degree, yet for every rooftop and parking lot sends water carrying all sorts of nasties, low DO, algae, benthic critters dieing and less diverse...sometime Vegas on the lake (the landing) jet boat tours, and all those LOZ type lifestyle people and infrastructure will be the death our waters... https://www.mabiosolids.org/biosolids-classroom-blog/2017/3/25/branson-tri-lakes-biosolids-drying-facility

well call into work cause with this rain it will get hot FAST!

I never get those kinds of adds, but if someone looks at adult stuff you get adult adds,....data mining

That is a lot of work.....

I would like to fish this place

I remember when it opened, it was impressive, then fell of a cliff...I seem to remember a 13 pound bass taken there just under the state record

it is my understanding once the dams went in and forever changed the white river to a cold water environment Trout were stocked to mediate the loss of the fish that where in before TR dam went in IMHO it was a plus for man, taking advantage of a changed habitat The "bait Bucket Biologist" was the Federal and state governments and the destruction of habitat was by mans hand. the common carp was stocked to replace faltering native fishes that were at that time over harvested while we dumped our sewage unchecked into our waters. Commons are still stocked ,a few years ago 70k where stocked in tempe town lake AZ Commons where in the rivers long before the dams went in, yet the fishing boomed, all the while commons swam content in the new lakes we created, the explosion in wildlife followed with a new found appreciation of what we had lost yet with management of the harvest anglers and hunters started wisely using our wildlife resources, its called CONSERVATION, organizations sprang up in support of that groups favorite quarry, Ducks Unlimited, Trout Unlimited, Wild Turkey foundation ETC. I am old enough to remember when deer hunting was far harder than now and deer used to be re-stocked, I also witnessed the growth of wild turkey and remember in my youth it was a rare thing to see one, much less hunt them. Groups like Carp Anglers Group and American Carp society have sprang up just like others did in the past, I can debate the carp are not always bad issue till the cows come home, several states now manage for trophy common carp, and I am proud to help with research, and speak with fisheries biologists often and like most fish or wildlife can be an asset when properly managed man is the issue, and some say european settlers are the epitome of the term "invasive" and the natural environment would be better off with mans exclusion. this was a story about a giant black carp who's effect on our waters is not known, so in the year 2134 we can know how much back carp changed things...perhaps they have a taste for zebra and quagga mussels or perhaps they just don't have what it takes to live over the next 140 or so years. I or most of my fellow carp anglers are not pushing black carp any more than bass angler are pushing snakeheads Cheers! Mo

here is a monster from China, only fish we have that gets this big are sturgeon and perhaps paddlefish

these are not related to common carp, but one of the true "asian" carp that were used in carp pond aquaculture, they fear they may eat all the native mussels, the ones the shellers harvest to make buttons and the inserts that oysters coat "mother of pearl' in the cultured pearl industry that has over harvested our large native mussels....back in the day they had factories that made buttons, the industrialization and the mass consumption of native mollusks at the turn of the century is what devastated what was once massive shell banks in the big river systems, and again the massive floods of 94 washed them into our big river systems, these "carp" Mylopharyngodon piceus are not even closely related to common carp, crappie are closer related to LMB than common carp are to black carp, black carp get big bigger than any of the true asian "carp" they get 2.2 meters long thats well over 6 feet! the potential of them destroying native mussels is a probability....I am unsure how much "legal" shelling is done in the state anymore, or the impact of zebra mussels on them..its an interesting read.... I asked in our CAG group no-one has ever caught one yet, however the black carp look a lot like grass carp...to be fair our native mussels were getting hammered long before black carp got into the big rivers, how many are out there? no-one knows....I have a friend lives and fishes the Missouri was going to try and use a 1/2 oyster grit 1/2 dehydrated canned oyster boilies to temp one in the Missouri near KC, and up his gear to see if any monsters lurk there, he has been spooled a couple of times and thought it may have been logs floating deep in the current, now after this report he's not so sure (logs don't float upstream!).... https://steverobert.wordpress.com/mussel-bound/

I have never caught a black carp, I have heard of them spooling guys fishing in the Missouri,

Amen I understand that dachshunds seem to be that way, some are just fine , some are wacked in the head crazy Thats the toughest part of our fuzzy children Hmmmm prob needs a new wife.. Amen to that

killed stuff too...Trapped...loved squirrel hunting, had a ladners black mouth cur. best dog I ever had, kept the tails to send in to mepps

A fair LMB and a master angler chain pike and some huge yellow perch caught at lake of the woods, heck they were as big as small walleyes, at the time didn't know how big they were for yellow perch

here is a pic of some elk river SMB and an old fishing buddies 8 year old holding a nice marble eye

Thought I would share, fished for all kinds of species before I went euro, Here are a few better walleyes, Below Truman Dam and Bull shoals are still IMHO the best places to land a wall hanger in our area, every once in a while Stockton posted out a fish in the low to mid teens, but not sure if any of the native river strain is in that lake any more. I make fish look small, I am a tad bigger than most

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