MoCarp

Did you know lighting like this is not legal? Can not have any spotlight on while moving, unless you docking or loading/off loading also can’t obscure your “I’m moving lights”

Much anticipated new reels coming out 🤗

Here is an interesting fish, will be interesting to see this one a 50, sorry no bfing where this fish was stocked

Here is a member of our carp group (CAG) about 5000 strong now, 25 years and still kicking...he was nice to share bert

Recaptures are cool, chasing named fish in the carp world is an interesting phenomena, imagine if you saw a post with that smallie on a stringer all washed out dead, or worse on the end of a gig 😱 something we carpers experience too often. The old fish called parrot ( looked like a parrot mouth) last year of its life it was caught four times in 2017. It lived in Berkshire’s Cranwells Lake on the Wasing Estate, normally weighed in the 60# range, top weight was 68#. Many anglers wanted to fish there however requirements were stiff, It took over 2 years in advance if you passed the vetting process...pretty pricy as well. https://www.wasing-weddings.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Wasing-Fisheries-Price-List-2015-2016.pdf

Cool, fun way to see what’s in there......I got into it as a kid to catch live minnows for bait, then it was fun to see a bunch of different species....you can draw in different things chumming boiled rice, or crackers, chew a piece of white bread and a tiny piece on your hook, I caught a Topeka shiner that way...big riffles in shoal creek, didn’t know how uncommon they were till years later...

Love the bee keeper gear

Big ones like clear water better Biguns are a tad harder to catch, kinda like stocker trout vs 11 pound browns, though even small carp fight well

Carp get pretty savvy once the get a bit of age on them, the get to about 10 pounds or so by age 5 or 6....growth slows and a 20 plus can be very old, one shed in Minnesota was 60 years old to land a 30 usually takes some special tactics and some luck, in the uk fish ar far tougher than here small waters fish get caught many times in there life, they may go days for one bite, catch a big tough fish and you make the papers, think frank the brown trout same kinda think there... as far as eating fish I hate oily fish trout, carp, mackerel..., give me red snapper, walleye, sunfish, crappie , yellow perch.....then only every now and then

*yet ( in Missouri that is) already in others... by the way never met LD

If a pound of ground chuck is 1/2 as much as old Betsy gets then chicken houses and feed lots are doomed

Looks like this is the grandkids new reality pretty gross I think https://www.inverse.com/article/48581-get-ready-for-lab-grown-meat

I imagine it was gradual to the levels we see today, just like bass fishing’s growth during my lifetime, I assure you bassin in the 70s was far different than today...ZWOLLE baby! You can fish more, just don’t keep them, if you want to argue sustainability, take that up with the fish and wildlife folks that set bag and possession limits, I’m pretty confident that with CWD your venison limits will be generous in the future.

It was practices like that which devastated fish and wild life stocks here and in Europe... that brought about the modern era of conservation, substance living devastated critters all over the world, market hunting made passenger the pigeon extinct, deer, elk buffalo, wild turkey....lake trout in the Great Lakes, Brook trout in the east, many species of trout in the west...many areas of the USA became devoid of critters that are common today. brown trout and common carp were blamed for losses then, when in fact it was over harvest, degradation of habitat and source point pollution were the real reasons. Common carp and browns were much harder hard to catch ( Up until the 1980s carp were so hard to catch only the most detracted anglers tried, amazing that the $8 plus billon a year carp industry developed so recently https://www.anglersmail.co.uk/blogs/big-fish-thursdays/development-of-carp-fishings-famous-hair-rig-60807 ) along with there ability to live in polluted waters gave the appearance of them taking over. Too many carp are a symptom of a distressed water not the cause. Browns could live in much warmer water than native trouts here is some nice reading on conservation history...btw we still have people that flaunt the laws to subsist on fish and wildlife, if they didn’t or did so less fishing would be better! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_management

Yeah most guys that fish there toss a plopper tween carp runs

These were caught near a big carp spot...seems they get fat on baby carp

Brookies?

Some times you have to fish extremely shallow for lmb at night, but like anything fish will have times they get tough, slow down a very light weight plastic worm will catch when it’s like that... a rattle bead, a good dose of fish scent....or a bait that just pisses them off like a buzz bait...you can bend a buzz bait to run off the the right or left, let it ping pong off objects like a critter desperate to climb out of the water, big bass will bust that like nothing else some times...

https://news.ontario.ca/mnr/en/2019/06/ontario-proposing-multi-line-carp-fishing.html

I found the study where they did that but, they did far more than that to other test subjects...the whole test study will be completed in 2020 however they shared some of their findings, eye opening and disconcerting at the same time, https://www.kunc.org/post/bent-out-shape-part-4-next-mad-cow-disease

Looks like just under 170k deer hunting tags sold in 2014 newest numbers I’ve been able to find...add to that the standard license....way less revenue than the state tax https://mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/downloads/permitsales2014.pdf

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/10/15/warning-about-chronic-wasting-disease-stokes-fears-of-hunting-decline/

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/593001800/decline-in-hunters-threatens-how-u-s-pays-for-conservation