Thread: Kentucky Lake Asian Carp

Originally Posted by perchjerker108

The Carp problem should be solved shortly if we trust all the information we get or get told. They don't reproduce, we have a barrier set up to stop any more getting into the lake and we still have commercial harvest of the current fixed population of Carp in the lake, so, just a matter of time before they are reduced significantly. Hope this is true. Will find out this year with the number of fishermen that show up and report catches in the lakes this year for game fish. Should be good fishing if he carp are having no affect on the population of these fish as we are told. Will be there in May to see what's going on.

Actually no, we won't learn much this year. The keeper fish we are fishing for are basically 5 years old for the most part and there aren't a whole lot left. Another full year to year and half or the 2021 season will be more telling about where we stand. There are big numbers of small fish in some places. I am hopeful with another good spawn and if bait holds up like recently, we will be more toward normal 2021-2022 and beyond.

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pab1981, thanks for correcting me on the potential outcome for this year on the carp. I was hoping the turning point would be this year. Sad to hear it will take another year or two to figure out if the situation improves. Feel sorry for the businesses there to have to wait out another 1 to 2 years. I guess we will all deal with the best we can for a couple years.