Thread: Big stripers!!!

Can they help with the asian carp problem?

Originally Posted by Amartinbio

KDFWR did stock stripers into the lakes last year. (Hatchery had extra). Looks like those are from a much earlier stocking though. Hopefully they survive well and grow up. Some reservoir fish can get huge.

Yes, they will help, but only when/if we have small Asian carp in the lake again. Vast majority of fish are around 20 inches or more right now which is tough for most of our predators to take down. Even predators that are large enough to eat them may not choose to. It depends on whether there are easier, more energy efficient prey sources available. For instance, a really big blue cat could eat one, but they might instead choose to eat the more abundant and easier to catch zebra mussels (we've seen lots of reports of this from anglers cleaning cats).

The stripers were stocked to improve the striper fishery, and not to control the carp. Same with alligator gar. Both of them could help the carp problem marginally however...

Originally Posted by BIGBADDAD

Can they help with the asian carp problem?