Thread: ID Carp

I'm not a carp fisherman but caught this carp Crappie fishing . What kind is it. It is a nice looking fish.

Kinda looks like a smallmouth buffalo
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Originally Posted by coastal bend

I'm not a carp fisherman but caught this carp Crappie fishing . What kind is it. It is a nice looking fish.

It's just a common carp. I've caught lots of them.

i was wrong after looking at the head/mouth.

Have a Donna Summers/Macarthur park type of day

Uh,yeah....riiiiiiiight!

man these things are a blast to catch at any size aren't they

also once i was fishing in the Ohio river when i was about 14 and we were catching alot of nice carp so i rigged up a empty bleach bottle with a leader coming from it and a hook on the end the next carp we caught was somewhere between 5 and 8 pounds give or take a bit so i hooked the bleach bottle in its mouth and turned it loose we laughed hard as it swam away we watched it for a long time finally it went behind a barge and stayed back there long story short the things you do when a kid i myself wouldn't do it now but it was funny then LOL

top pictures tail looks to bright red and body to silver to be common if it is that just goes to show how the same fish looks different in different places

2nd picture looks like a buffalo

but thats my opinion and im probably wrong

Definitly a Common Carp. He does have a strange color. Very Nice

Originally Posted by coastal bend

I'm not a carp fisherman but caught this carp Crappie fishing . What kind is it. It is a nice looking fish.

Looks like a common (German) Carp , most here are more yellow all over.(picture angle or light may make it look lighter) I catch them in gill nets trying to catch Catfish and Buffalo.