Thread: Asian carp on Chickamauga

Sorry to hear that. Sad

What’s up stream from there? It’ll be next.


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Watts Bar then Ft Loudoun are upstream from Chickamauga.

Best I can tell, there's no stopping these things. Guess its time to start looking for a good helmet to wear when headed up and down the lake

Originally Posted by M GO BLUE

Best I can tell, there's no stopping these things. Guess its time to start looking for a good helmet to wear when headed up and down the lake

I was thinking I need to replace the wind shields on the consoles the previous owner took off.

If y’all haven’t experienced these things in the wild , I can enlighten you lol. We’ve been dealing with them in West Tn for 10 years now.

As far as getting hit at speed, I’d say 99% will jump behind the boat. Every now and then one will jump ahead but it’s rare. Don’t follow behind another boat in its wake, if you do you’ll regret it. Taking off and slowing down in shallow water is the worst in warmer weather. I have been hit at speed once in 10 years, turkey hunting and running boat to spot before daylight. Luckily it just hit my arm. They don’t eat crappie or their eggs. They eat plankton, which is what shad eat. One of these will eat what 1000 shad will eat. No food for shad, no shad, no crappie. There’s no getting rid of them, hopefully the new things they are trying at Ky lake will help. They’re actually really good to eat. I think it’s better than catfish. Real mild and firm. Get a bow and shoot them , it’s fun. The picture was in my old 16/48 Jon boat. I’m guessing it weighed 50+ lbs.


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Yes, the carp tastes ok. The West Sandy is mostly void of boats. Useta be 100's in the spawn season. I still fish here, mainly because I stays here and don't haveta pull a boat. Age has a lot to do with this or maybe I have gotten plum lazy. Take ur pick.

Doesn't sound good for fisherman, the fish populations or the local economies