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Fishing??? Is this REAL???

mmmarvel

mmmarvel

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OMG, they claim these are Flying Silver Carp up in Indiana. Can anyone either verify this or pooh-pooh it??

 
You aren't a real man until you fish in these waters (FLORIDA)

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mmmarvel said:
OMG, they claim these are Flying Silver Carp up in Indiana. Can anyone either verify this or pooh-pooh it??
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Yes, it is true. The carp are an Asian species that somehow got loose in the midwest waterways. I saw a piece about the fish being in the Mississippi River a few years ago.
 
Yep, it is true. I believe the carp escaped a fish farm during the big floods, I think it was the 93-94 floods.
 
The carp do rise out of the water, all! Never had one jump in the boat, see it all the time. A whole bunch of reasons why or at least I been told. Most Of the people I fined on the water tend to stretch the truth. Seems to happen late spring around here when oxygen level start to drop and water temps are on the rise. Last a few weeks then they move to deeper water and stay on the bottom the remainder of the summer.

The shark picture is great however that guy is never going to catch it with out his line in the water.
 
Use to see the schools of "spinner" sharks every year right off shore in the Atlantic side of S. Florida like the school picture. They are only looking for love in all the wrong places :)

The carp are up to the locks in Chicagoland and the Gov's of IL. MI. WI. OH. and NY have been trying to get them eradicated since they will take over the Great Lakes and kill off the Salmon and Trout. They are quite the bow fishing experience on the rivers now.
 
We used to shoot em with a bow, in the fall when the irrigation ditches would empty, there would be a couple weeks where they ended up in pools of water that didn't drain. They are NASTY fighters, that's for sure.
 
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