[mylife]

The silver carp, which can weigh 60 pounds, can leap high into the air and strike boaters. Its relative the bighead carp is even larger.

[mylife]

Big fishy pingeroony!!

[alancarp]

According to the rules set forth in my service agreement, I am not permitted to comment on this story.

[Joe 6-pack]

"THE ASIAN CARP, which feed primarily on plankton, were brought to this country in 1972 by a fish farmer in Arkansas to help deplete an overgrowth of aquatic plant life."

They just want to eat the low scum American fish won't eat...

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[martin_fierro]

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

These fish have started showing up in lake Ponchatrain, I once saw about 100 of these things charge towards the levee...the roar of them crashing into the water was loud as hell

[LibWhacker]

Ouch! Speaking of which . . . Does anybody know if anyone has ever been skewered by one of these guys while simply cruising along minding his own business?

[TADSLOS]

If he hadn't been sitting in a tractor seat with a solid back, it would have knocked him out of the boat."

If your tractor seat doubles as a fishin' boat seat...you just might be a redneck...

[mylife]

I was fishing in Texas for striper a few years ago when I noticed Sand bass hitting my lures.

The lures for the stripers were to large for the sandies, so I set up an ultralight with a smaller lure and was happily reeling in both fish.

Suddenly my ultralight doubles over and I think wow! I have a striper on this thing!!

I played him for an hour so as not to break the 4 lb line.

It was a 35 lb carp!!

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[DentsRun]

"They react to a boat and just go wild," said Benjy Kinman, the Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife director of fisheries. "If somebody bangs something or stomps on the floor of an aluminum boat — if they're up in a little creek mouth or something — they'll all jump out of the water like popcorn."

Well, that's when you pull out your 12 gauge and wing a few.

[michigander]

Let me state up front (for the record), exotic species suck and are usually a detriment when introducted into a non-native habitat.

However, while I've yet to hear of an account of silver carp activity in my home port, the thought of hooking into a fish with the size and fighting charatceristics described does present a certain appeal.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Slapped with a large carp. It happens all the time.