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?
about one of my favorite fishing lakes. I've commented on another post about the absence of shad in Wolf Lake for this time of year. I'm no marine biologist, but it seems something has happened to the lake. I fished it pretty hard yesterday, all the while keeping my eyes peeled for schools of shad. I saw none. I pulled up into the shade of a cypress to eat a snack and was just gazing around and noticed a school of minnows swimming by. They were shad about 3/8" long. Very unusual for this time of the year. The shad should be about 2" in length by this time of the year. ????????????????????????
Another thing that disturbed me was the Asian carp swimming around on the surface of the water feeding. Never say any large ones, but saw hundreds about two feet long just tooling along. I'm not preaching doom and gloom, but I have the feeling I need to start finding a new lake to fish.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Charlie Weaver USN/ENC 1965-1979
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.
I have spent most my life fishing........the rest I wasted.
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Wish the state lakes would get crappie serious to off set lost crappie waters . Magnolia crappie may be the future savior of our sport .