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Asian Carp
I have been fishing from my dock located in Jonathan Creek since 1997 and have never seen this before. I have a dusk / dawn light that attracts lots of insects that fall into the water some floating and some slowly sinking. It used to a drawing card for gills and and about every other fish to gather under the light after dark and feed during the night. That has now changed as now very large Asian Carp are showing up at my dock and sucking up all the fallen insects for themselves. I have been watching this for a week now and it happens every night after nightfall. Usually have some really large bass living around and under the dock and the feed on the smaller fish and baitfish that would hang around in the past. So far this year i have seen no bass hanging around. Lord help Kentucky Lake. Some of these carp I believe are close to 40#.
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Shoot em all in the head
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This is getting frustrating, and that pic, well that's like a horror movie. Scary looking is an understatement. I'd get locked up because I would take my dad's beautiful 12 gauge double and be very tempted to start WW3 on AC with that scene.
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At the meeting they said overseas they had the ability to catch them done to nothing and do. Said final stages of signing contract for fish house was in action. Also said kentucky/Tennessee keeps being denied federal money but Illinois gets 100 million a year to combat them.
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I have been to KY lake once. I loved it and hate to see this happening. Booked the same trip for this year. I might have to reconsider if I come back if these things keep getting worse.
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Are you sure those are Asian Carp? All the AC I have snagged had their mouths on the bottom of their heads. Those look like the mouths are at the front of their heads. I suggest you snag one and drag it up on the dock to make sure. Not that it makes much difference - carp are carp.
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Pretty sure those are AC's .... they're coming up at an angle, so their mouths "appear" to be high on their face (IMHO).Originally Posted by Clint
Not so sure they're after the "bugs" so much as being drawn to the plankton that's come to the light. Same reason Shad circle under the lights at night.
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By all accounts they are supposed to be good to eat. Might as well try and catch a few (probably would give quite a fight on the end of a rod) and eat them. Those should be easy to snag.
But that said I hate to see that picture. I have a place at Barkley I may have to try and get a green light at some point and see what it attracts. Hopefully not AC.
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They are Asian carp. They swim around in circles about 6 feet in diameter slightly below the surface with their mouths wide open filtering out the small insects that are slowly sinking. My pic shows all the small insects on the surface that have not begun to sink yet. They are like vacuum cleaners in their enviroment. I could spear every one at my dock and it wouldn't make any difference. I have seen schools in some of the bays on this lake at had probably a 1000 carp in them cruising just below the surface . This was five years ago. Far worse now. Man created this problem but I don't think man will solve it.
