Ugly northern fish (beware scary)

Well I'm I'n Illinois visiting the I'n laws had to get away so I found some ponds that looked good and I caught this weird looking fish around 20 lbs and 3 1/2 to 4 foot long. Here's the pic.

Asian carp?

Looks like good cut bait!!!

Yep
http://sportsthat.blogspot.com/2010/07/asian-carp-invasion.html

I'll try to get one tommorow and try it fir cut bait I cut that one open and it had 2 crappie I'n it? That article said they are like paddle fish??

Must have been hungry!

Weird... I wonder what the heck it is?

Asian carp and invasive.

You did leave it for the critters...yes?

you should also probably contact tpwd and tell them where you caught it.

I don't think he is in Texas.. So not tpwd

It's a bighead carp

is this the same kinda fish? ... this was caught at ft phantom several years ago ... don't know about now but it usta hang on the wall in a bait store on ambler street ... i'm pretty sure this one was over 50#

i used to live off of ambler! didnt ever see a bait store though, mightve been gone by the time i lived there. looks like the same kinda fish tho, shape of the mouth and head, tail, wonder how it survived down here, dont they have a hard time in the heat i thought?

The newest world record blue cat was caught on cut asian carp.

As far as it eating crappie instead of plankton... On the new season of river monsters they had this fish that was attacking men's dangley parts in the water and they didn't know what it was. Turned out it was a pacu, normally it is a vegitarian but it was an invasive spieces to this particular river and since there was not enough fruits and nuts falling off trees into the water it had turned carniverous.

Those Asian Carp are the ones that jump out of the river 10 feet in the air when you run your boat down the river. The sound of the motor throws 'em in to a panic.

I am fairly certain I saw a big one of these mixed in with some big mouth buffalo down from Denison Dam.

Looks like an Asian Carp to me. they are an invasive species, and spreading like wildfire.

Hope to god you are wrong about that draggin.....

Asian carp no doubt and very dangerous, they get big, once had one jumpout of the water over a Lund walleye boat and knock my friends 5 yr old daughter almost out of the boat on the Mississippi river, so to any that venture up that way make sure you wear your life vest when headin to and from the fishing area seriously a 30-50 fish can jump up and hit you and you could be dazed and or fall out of the boat and in the Big Muddy its over without a vest

That's crazy I left it to the birds but it did fight hard on my 9 foot crappie rod. Lol

I bet that was fun to catch!!

kill em all they are great bait and are destroying the fisheries

And get you one of them bass fishing helmets!

there are or were 2 bait stores on the corners where the road tees into ambler that leads to FM 600 going north ... feller named eddie ran the one on the east side or at least he did 4 years ago

Woops.. .Well contact somebody then...anybody.

looks like a minnow

Texas held the world record bighead carp for a while. In 2000, a fella caught a 90-pounder from Lake Kirby in Abilene. There was also a big one caught from Fort Phantom Hill. I think that was the one mounted in the bait shop.

Yep, also call them Silver Carp. They are a major pest and have been introduced in a number of northern waters.

Very likely. The Red River is a trib to the Mississippi and they are common in the Miss.