Thread: Got a bad feeling

I looked on my map. Where is Wolf Lake located?
If you saw hundreds of Asian Carp, you missed the other thousands.
Can count that lake as a goner.
I wonder if they will bite corn or peas?

John dont know about wolf but last time i was at butla only shad i saw was in the 4-6in range and not in schools.

Originally Posted by canebreaker

I looked on my map. Where is Wolf Lake located?
If you saw hundreds of Asian Carp, you missed the other thousands.
Can count that lake as a goner.
I wonder if they will bite corn or peas?

Wolf is an oxbow about 7 miles west of Yazoo City on hwy 149. I don't know about biting peas, but they're easy to hang with a jig longlining.

Yeah, Mr. Jim. I know the ones you're talking about. Usually by this time of the year, the gizzard and treadfin shad that hatched out in the spring are about 2" in length and travelling in large schools on top of the water. They're not there, now. The fishes I've caught don't have any fat in'em like they did last year and years past. Females don't even have egg sacs. Thatls bad.

Hate to hear that about Wolf, you could usually count on catching a pretty good mess there in the past.

One of the problems if the carp are there is they feed on the same algie that the shad do and could have the food supply deminished to the point shad will die off. Another problem has been low water and heat. If the river gets in there you have missed out on the natural replenishment you would get with flooding from the river. Sounds like another sad situation in regards to the carp.

It's called asian carp ! The oxbo's are doomed if they don't find a way to slow them down .

Every bioligist that I have talked to says there is nothing they can do. I read a report where they took over 8 tons of them out of a oxbow down south somewhere and they said that didn't even knock a dent in them.