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im going there today but not for carp.... talk to me in a few weeks of warm weather i can tell you where i see the big ones... i regularly see schools in the spring in the only good spawning grounds getting ready to make beds i will see schools of 50 carp between 5 and 35-40+lbs the ones in the school are normally small but the really big ones cruise the outsides its really a site to see
Sounds good. Looks like I'll have to make a line of Carp Baits now. Any suggestions?
It's unfortunate they are in the Rogue, hopefully they will be caught and killed in the future. Carp are bad for coldwater and warmwater species in oregon.
What bugs me the most, is when people go into threads and suggest people kill their catch, it seems as though Xfactor appreciated his catch when he talked about making a line of Carp baits.
Live and let live BT (NOT TB LOL), you will make no difference in fish populations, I will make no difference in your opinion, we are beating a dead horse.
T I guess that was just another emotional rant on your part. Try facts next time.
I know you teenagers think you know everything, with your decades of vast fishing knowledge, but you don't.
Be that as it may, invasive they are not.
Carp are not native to the western hemisphere. They were introduced to the "new world" by European settler's during colonial times as a food fish. Only later were they to become villanized as a trash fish. Hell, some also thought of (and still consider) Lobsters as bottom feeding trash. Be that as it may, invasive they are not. Undesirable in the Rogue, got there by accident, yes. They are survivors. Able to live and thrive in waters unsuitable to many other species. Even though Carp are a warm water species, they are able to survive in rivers and ponds that freeze over in winter. Normally however, they do not inhabit very fast moving water. If we are lucky, they will not survive for long now the the dams are gone.
Having said that, Carp can be a hoot on a fly rod. They will take a variety of flies. Many of which you probably already have in your boxes. They pull like a Mack truck. A small five pound fish will easily run you into your backing. Too bad they don't jump.
look at the destruction grass carp have had on the Devils Lake fishery.
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