Thread: Silver Carp- Sardis Lake

Originally Posted by coolerfull

Trust me if they get in the big 4 it's over. I don't care what they taste like Hope Game an Fish are on top of this?

I'm afraid that it is inevitably gonna happen. Sure wish someone would come up with something to rid us of these things.

MDWFP needs to prohibit using baitfish from the rivers and lower lakes in the main lake. All we need is a few fingerlings in there to kill our fishing! Enforcement would be the problem though.

living up here on the banks of the mississippi river i can tell you guys they will ruin crappie habitat quickly. one thing ive noticed is when we catfish the river in the summer we use throw nets to catch shad. most of the time the young silvers are mixed in with the shad. if you aren't paying close attention you can easily get them mixed up especailly if you catch a mess in one throw. flatheads seem to prefer live shad so we try to weed out the silvers and kill as many as we can but it makes no difference. point i'm making is if a catfisherman goes to lower lake to catch shad and then take his haul up to the main lake it could just snowball from there.

"If bait is captured below the spillway, it should only be used in that spillway," Riecke said.
Now if MDWFP will pass this rule.

Originally Posted by armyman

MDWFP needs to prohibit using baitfish from the rivers and lower lakes in the main lake. All we need is a few fingerlings in there to kill our fishing! Enforcement would be the problem though.

Shad are netted and dipped in the spillway every day for main lake bait. I would guess that it might be already too late to talk about prevention or enforcement.

Its inevitable, eggs from a crane's leg, transferred from your boat when you decide to try the main lake after fishing in the spillway, live bait caught below and brought into the main lakes, it will and like Pops said, most likely has already.

Originally Posted by Pops

Shad are netted and dipped in the spillway every day for main lake bait. I would guess that it might be already too late to talk about prevention or enforcement.

Sad to say, but you're prolly right, Pops. When we see the first one go sailing in the main lake, then we'll know for sure! Sad........Sad.

Was watching a guy fishing near engineer point today. He got hung and hit his TM on high to back off. About that same time, I saw a large 4-5lb or more fish jump fully out of the water behind him. Could have been a bass, I guess. The sun sure did glimmer off it's sides though.