How many of you have these?

mofish · Post by **mofish** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:41 pm

How many have these things where you fish? Had two of them jump in the boat the other day when I went fishing. Snagged this big guy when I was crappie fishing

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ronlehman909 · Post by **ronlehman909** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:01 pm

What kind of fish is that? Never seen them out west.

johnnie crain outdoors · Sat Mar 27, 2010 12:42 am

Looks like an Asian Bighead Carp. Bad news for boaters and anglers. They school in huge schools and jump into boats when spooked by outboards. very dangerous. They seem to be spreading everywhere.

brendanc · Post by **brendanc** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:45 am

If that is asian bighead carp... that's not a good thing. Check this out:

George Cawthorn · Post by **George Cawthorn** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 4:51 pm

Haven't seen any of those where I fish at Castaic yet.

I wonder why they all jump in different directions. Looks like a boil at sea, or striper on a lake when the go into the feeding frenzy.

swimbait101 · Post by **swimbait101** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 11:42 pm

there pretty much invading the Mississippi River and its tributaries because thats where the farms where they escaped from where. im pretty sure they were brought over to each algea in small ponds. the the Mississippi RIver flooded and they escaped.

if one appears in castaic then somebodyy released it on purpose

mofish · Post by **mofish** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 1:25 pm

Thats what it is Asian Big Head Carp. They are in the river that I fish. Man when you go through a school of them you really have to watch out. They will jump right in your lap! Luckily I don't run very fast in the river or you could get hurt pretty bad if one was to hit going fast. This one was the biggest one I have seen myself. Most of the ones that jump are 6 inches or so. Sure bad to see things like this get into a system and you can't really do anything about them.

swimbait101 · Post by **swimbait101** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:40 pm

they look fun to catch....

mofish · Post by **mofish** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 9:10 pm

Oh he put up a good fight but he never jumped one time. Guess I didn't scare him enough! He also had a Lamphry (I guess that what it was) on his side you can see the red mark just below his gill were it was attached. It however slipped though the net when I brought it in, or I would have took a picture of it too!

swimbait101 · Post by **swimbait101** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 10:10 pm

wat u catch them on