Headhunter
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Anyone seeing them, issues with them, etc. please let me know. I was contacted and have a friend who is going to the state legislature to try to get something done.
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ive got some video of this years spawned carp if you need it. there wasnt a spot from jville bridge to almost danville, on both sides of the lake, that they werent. they were pretty thick. a lot looked like last years spawn, maybe 3-5 lbs a piece and found some that were 3-5".
NumberOne":2y8knpvq said:
they will feed on them, especially gar and blue cats, which have been found to take on adult silver carp. bass seem to feed on big head more than silvers, according to research. but there are way too many carp.
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They are thick in all the creeks around Perryville. Juveniles to full grown onesHeadhunter":1g67umv1 said:
chunkandwind
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I wish your friend luck but the state legislature already know about the problem.
Check out https://www.waroncarp.com/
Check out https://www.waroncarp.com/
chunkandwind":1epg4for said:
yeah and sadly they have no idea how many billions this problem may cost down the road.
catman529
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I haven't had any issues with them yet, but have seen a few carcasses on the Cumberland river where I assume people caught or shot them. Also TWRA has shocked up a few in the duck river as far upstream as the Milltown dam in Marshall county, but they can't verify that they are reproducing up that far because they need more open flowing water for the eggs to hatch.
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catman529":2g7arsdx said:
discoveries in the last few years have concluded that silver carp do not need the current nor the size of a watershed they once thought. case study was the wabash river, about the same size and current flow as the duck river.
I was running probably 30 mph in the middle of standing rock (probably 16-20' of water) last Saturday night and had one come over the trolling motor and just missed the ole lady by a few inches. We wear helmets at night just to keep the bugs off, that's the first thing that went through my mind when I saw the flash. On a side note the helmets are awesome at night. She had a bat smack her last year if she wouldn't have had the helmet on it could have been bad.
I know if you put in on the lake side at the Springville pumphouse you better have your head on a swivel.
TRIGGER":g05ak7e0 said:
did you see any up shallow?
WTM":5tj2r0ep said:
Yes.It seams like there everywhere at night. Definitely more noticeable at night. When the water is like glass and no noises you can hear them jump all the way across the lake when something spooks them.
