This is how fish get into places you can't explain

[MoCarp]

 

[MOPanfisher]

Apparently they swim?

[bfishn]

aka, This is how fish with bones for brains end up as coon cuisine in a mud puddle.

[MoCarp]

or in uncle walts pond 3 miles from the road

[BilletHead]

            Uncle Walt's going to be mad some idiot introduced them some other place allowing them to get to his pond. Darned invasive non native fish, yep go ahead and say haters are going to hate. So posting this is going to show us soon carp will be everywhere and be hated even worse.

  BilletHead 

[MOPanfisher]

I have seen lots of common carp going "up ditch" into ponds after prolonged rain periods, used to keep a heavy casting rod rigged with a big treble to snag them with, gigged, dip netted, possibly even shot a few when younger.  Always said carp could move up a field drainage in a heavy dew.

[MoCarp]

6 hours ago, BilletHead said:

            Uncle Walt's going to be mad some idiot introduced them some other place allowing them to get to his pond. Darned invasive non native fish, yep go ahead and say haters are going to hate. So posting this is going to show us soon carp will be everywhere and be hated even worse.

  BilletHead 

one no-one "bait bucket stocked walt back 40 pond with carp, the video shows how easy fish can move in a "high water event" that one is in Texas, they have had a great deal of flooding of late, as far as more hate...the reverse is true....

[oneshot]

Use to like Bowfishing Flood Water.

 

oneshot

[Johnsfolly]

One summer when we lived in Florida, we had 16 inches of rain in 18 hours. Before the rain, the pond at work was pristine with great water clarity, big bass, tilapia, bluegill, blue finned killifish, flag fish... (I regret not being a microfisherman at the time)

After the rain, every creek, septic, and drainage ditch was connected. The water afterwards was murky and green, there were gar, green sunfish, walking catfish, sailfin mollies, other aquarium releases, exotics, etc. We boated down the road and had fish swimming across the road. As it dried up the walking catfish would be found crossing the roads.

[Terrierman]

Everything is everywhere that it can exist and compete.  It's nature's way.  We're pretty good helpers at mobility.