Big Heads in Bull Shoals????

[MoCarp]

man I hope thats a one off, anywhere asians get in the common carp and buff fishing crashes

[JohnP]

The fish has been handed off to the MDC Fishery Biologist this afternoon.  Thank you Mojorig passing on the info to Nathan, he emailed me first thing this and drove from West Plains to pick it up.  Had a good conversation with him before loading up the fish and seemed genuinely interested and concerned with the find andwants it passed on that if anymore are seen, caught, or shot to report it.

[mojorig]

Glad Nathan was able to get ahold of you and get more information.

[Fish24/7]

maybe the tiger musky in Bull eat those kind of carp? :0

never know what you'll run into there, like a 4 to 5 lb goldfish following a spinnerbait.

 

[JohnP]

5 hours ago, Fish24/7 said:

maybe the tiger musky in Bull eat those kind of carp? :0

never know what you'll run into there, like a 4 to 5 lb goldfish following a spinnerbait.

 

There's a few goldfish/koi swimming around in BS and maybe a few less ;).

[96 CHAMP]

I hear that they are in Kentucky lake big time, read a article about it a while back, seems there is no getting rid of them

[moguy1973]

I'm wondering if this was a discarded "minnow" that someone dumped in the lake after they were done fishing one day and it grew into this.  I want to say at one point big heads were sold as minnows in places.

Luckily they don't seem to be able to spawn in lakes.

[MoCarp]

1 hour ago, moguy1973 said:

I'm wondering if this was a discarded "minnow" that someone dumped in the lake after they were done fishing one day and it grew into this.  I want to say at one point big heads were sold as minnows in places.

Luckily they don't seem to be able to spawn in lakes.

if someone netted shad somewhere for bait its easy to get them confused, I am also certain I saw a thread somewhere with a bighead found alive in a ditch after some flooding near Branson, yet for the life of me I can't find it...it was speculated it came from a golf course or sewage treatment pond...as far as breeding all it would take is a flood year and some big creeks and they could get a spawn off...I also saw where the asian carp don't seem to be able to become dominate in water with healthy populations of other fishes...this was spoken about by some biologists on a recent might rivers show with jeremy wade on the Mississippi and how the bighead/silvers were not a problem in Iowa stretches of the Mighty Mississippi...(strong buffalo/gar/common carp/catfish populations ) and perhaps this along with better less degraded habitat allowed less biological niches for the interlopers to get a foothold

 

https://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/jeremy-wades-mighty-rivers/full-episodes/the-mississippi

[MOPanfisher]

I would think it more likely to have a grass carp in a ditch after flooding, but heck anymore I wouldn't be surprised if it were a pacu eating a piranah, inside a caiman that was found.

[JohnP]

24 minutes ago, MoCarp said:

if someone netted shad somewhere for bait its easy to get them confused, I am also certain I saw a thread somewhere with a bighead found alive in a ditch after some flooding near Branson, yet for the life of me I can't find it...it was speculated it came from a golf course or sewage treatment pond...as far as breeding all it would take is a flood year and some big creeks and they could get a spawn off...I also saw where the asian carp don't seem to be able to become dominate in water with healthy populations of other fishes...this was spoken about by some biologists on a recent might rivers show with jeremy wade on the Mississippi and how the bighead/silvers were not a problem in Iowa stretches of the Mighty Mississippi...(strong buffalo/gar/common carp/catfish populations ) and perhaps this along with better less degraded habitat allowed less biological niches for the interlopers to get a foothold

 

https://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/jeremy-wades-mighty-rivers/full-episodes/the-mississippi

The rumor is that the golf course is somewhere near Roaring River and had them in their ponds and may have washed out during last year's flooding.  May never know if that's where it came from or from someones bait bucket years ago.