i dont know the technical name for these fish, but on the mississippi river they call them chinese jumping carp, they put up a crazy fight
45# and 35#

Nice fish! Those are Silver Carp, I believe, though actually quite unrelated to the common carp that's naturalized here in Texas. I'd have to ask Fishlady for the scientific name lol. Supposed to be good eating though, they oughta send net crews out on the river to try and get as many as they can, and have a giant fish fry hehe.

well the commercial neters on the river have been trying to sell them at fish markets in mississippi, but not doing to good.
i fileted one up one time, way too boney, did not seem worth the meat, and i think they are plankton eaters

Did you guys bowfish them?

Yeah how did you catch them?

Never knew those existed. Great pics!!! How did you catch them?

a lot more of this needs to happen




this is what you call a "target rich environment"

These fish were stocked in pond to control weeds and filter the ponds. When the Mississippi river flooded they got loose and exploded in population

i say we need to exterminate these fish as quickly as possible

Agreed. This is a very good example of an invasive species as opposed to a naturalized species. These are definitely invasive.

Thats pretty scary

they will eat tiney jigs, we caught them right next to a wall beside a damn, very good fight i might add. all though they are not very easy to catch cause i think that they plankton eaters, not to sure though

i have snagged some too, cause they are everywhere

booooom c4

Nice!

Looks like a great supply for protein feeds and fertilizer. Plenty of them there!

When I lived in MS I had them jump out and hit the boat and land in the boat. Those things are a big problem.

I bet those do fight

i had one jump out and hit me in the head doing 50mph, it hurt like hell

there should be a bowfishing tourney there every day for these things

Yeah but what should you do with them? According to many over in the rough fish section, it is illegal to kill a fish if you do not intend to eat it or use it for bait. If you kill as mnay of them as needs to be killed, you would not be able to eat them all.

MesquiteMan lets not start this. Big Ted is a carper and so am I and we have already posted in this thread. This is an "invasive species" and it does not exist in Texas. Lets not hijack this thread.

Jason,

This was a serious question. There are a number of folks that insist that the law does not diferientiate between types of fish. That was brought up in a different discussion. It either does or doesn't. My question remains...what should one do with a bunch of silvers that they have tried to erradicate from a river system if they have way more than they can eat?

If it wan indeed serious here are your answers:

It isn't "some people in the rough section" that say it is against the law to waste edible fish, it is the State of Texas.

Furthermore, the waste of fish laws and the invasive species list are separate.

Even furthermore, the laws of Texas do not apply to the Mississippi river.



All that said, the human race has shown great ability to deal with this sort of stuff inn the past.

I have not tasted these fish, but they *can* be eaten. If nothing else, animal feed, fish sticks, etc, etc.

I suspect that we couldn't tell the difference from these fish and the cod that are ground up and pressed into weird shapes. Just a thought.

They are trying to use them for feed at the zoo's. Have not followed the project but it sounded good. I think that nature will find its own way of killing them off, though a HUGE BF tourney and fish fry sounds good to me! Sooner or later they will find a natural balance. Lets just hope its before we lose any other species. Invasive as hell and compete with bait fish and fry for plankton.

They can kill a man.