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Is this normal for a grass carp?
Posted on 9/8/12 at 10:59 am
Posted on 9/8/12 at 10:59 am
We have a sterile grass carp in my parents pond, and this mofo must think he's a shark.
Pretty much anytime you look out there you can see about 3 inches of his fin sticking out the water. Also, if you get up next to it in the boat you can just grab it and pull it out the water by his tail. The damn thing doesn't even care either. Are they supposed to be like this or is he just a "special" fish
Pretty much anytime you look out there you can see about 3 inches of his fin sticking out the water. Also, if you get up next to it in the boat you can just grab it and pull it out the water by his tail. The damn thing doesn't even care either. Are they supposed to be like this or is he just a "special" fish
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Posted on 9/8/12 at 12:40 pm to CP3
I put 3 in my pond and that's what they did all day.... Trolled the banks and ate the hell out of the grass! They can eat their weight in grass PER day!
Posted on 9/8/12 at 12:41 pm to CP3
Like this?
Fairly typical carp wake.
Fairly typical carp wake.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 12:44 pm to CoastieGM
They put a few thousand of those in Cross Lake this year and we haven't seen even a hint of the hydrilla this year that was miles deep last year to the point you couldn't even get through it in the middle of the lake on the west end.
Those puppies are badass.
Those puppies are badass.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 12:48 pm to CP3
Throw your grass clippings in the water to keep them fat. They will graze like cows on it.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 12:48 pm to faxis
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Those puppies are badass
And can ruin bass fishing in a lake in a few years.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 12:59 pm to rlp
That may be true, but when the hydrilla is so thick you can't get a boat through it in six feet of water and it filters the water to the point it's crystal clear, in LA, they're the lesser of two evils.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 1:09 pm to CoastieGM
Well they always made the wake. Now it swims around with it's whole top fin out the water.
Before we realized we could just grab them we would catch em on bread. They actually put up a good fight. Took one out with a bow also.
Before we realized we could just grab them we would catch em on bread. They actually put up a good fight. Took one out with a bow also.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 1:11 pm to faxis
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faxis
That's why we put them in years back. The grass in the pond was out of control. Now it's crystal clear. We still catch a decent amount of bass and bream though.
This post was edited on 9/8/12 at 1:12 pm
Posted on 9/8/12 at 1:30 pm to rlp
quote:no shite not many lakes that bring them in can't find the right balance to have a little grass
And can ruin bass fishing in a lake in a few years.
They'll turn a lake into a mud bowl
Posted on 9/8/12 at 1:44 pm to Devious
Grass carp are a useless blight on any waterway. They have destroyed many of our greatest fisheries, but the dumbasses who want to ski and look at the pretty water evidently have a friend in our DWF that caters to their every whim. Carp have destroyed Caney Lake. It was on the verge of being the next Lake Fork until grass carp were introduced and they destroyed the ecosystem. What do you think these beast raid once the lake is reduced to a mudpit? They destroy the nesting grounds of the fish. Do you think they avoid eating bass eggs on the bottom of the lake once all the grass is gone? Ask most biologist working for any other Wildlife Department and they'll tell you don't bring those damn Frankenfish to destroy our state fisheries. 
Posted on 9/8/12 at 1:48 pm to PinevilleTiger
And they aren't all sterile. They will reproduce.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 2:00 pm to rlp
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And can ruin bass fishing in a lake in a few years
They definitely screw up the bass fishing. Or at least force you to learn a new way to fish.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 2:03 pm to PinevilleTiger
Yep. The powers that be really fricked Caney. I don't understand why they didn't introduce a small number of the bastards instead of 12,500. Dumbasses 
Posted on 9/8/12 at 5:33 pm to windriver
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Yep. The powers that be really fricked Caney. I don't understand why they didn't introduce a small number of the bastards instead of 12,500. Dumbasses
Aren't all of the grass carp the same sex???
They will not be able to reproduce and will die out eventually.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 5:35 pm to ctiger69
Supposed to be. But a few slip by the screening process. They will reproduce eventually. We had carp of all different ages in a pond that had been stocked once.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 5:37 pm to Nodust
I know they did this to Crooked Creek Lake. It has worked great. I was told the carp were the same sex though.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 5:43 pm to ctiger69
99.9999% are. But all is takes is one bitch to ruin things.
Posted on 9/8/12 at 5:45 pm to Nodust
Posted on 9/9/12 at 7:39 am to windriver
They put in too many to start, because they want an immediate impact. One truck can deliver 12,500 fingerlings. A year or two later when they are 5-10# each, they eat a shite-ton more vegetation. Pretty soon there isn't a scrap of vegetation anywhere.
A reasonable amount of grasses or lily pads are great for bass fishing. Once gone the lakes turn into mud holes. Seems like they could go shock up some of the 40# giants out of Caney, Cleco or somewhere and use those instead of 12,000 small ones, for immediate impact.
A reasonable amount of grasses or lily pads are great for bass fishing. Once gone the lakes turn into mud holes. Seems like they could go shock up some of the 40# giants out of Caney, Cleco or somewhere and use those instead of 12,000 small ones, for immediate impact.
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