Fishing for Asian Carp

I was just wondering. Just for thread conversation, has anyone ever tried fishing (not shooting) Asian carp? I would imagine they would put up a huge fight and would be a lot of fun (and messy). May be another way to help with the carp population? Maybe have fishing tournaments for them in addition to the bow hunting and netting tournaments? Just a thought. I imagine people consistently fish for and catch them in other parts of the world versus the occasional fish caught here on a crankbait that some (not me) have experienced. Only time I have caught them is when they have jumped in my boat on few occasions. Got to be some type of bait the would catch them consistently. Any ideas? Might be fun, especially if you have a jon boat you could spray off when finished.

Baits won't work for Asian Carp as they are filter feeders. That is, they swim with their mouths open sucking in plankton. I have caught them casting large spoons below the dam. Some hooked in the mouth when they swam into my line, but the most exciting was when I snagged one (by accident) in the dorsal fin. It went 18 pounds, and I thought I had snagged the bottom until it started swimming up-stream. Heckova fight.

Yeah, my fishing buddy from work snagged one in the dorsal fin as we were pulling cranks for crappy. This was last year on Barkley. He kept saying he was hung up on the bottom, but every time I trolled over to where his line was the line would move off. After he was convinced he had a fish on it took him quite a while to get it alongside the boat. He said it was a huge catfish. I said if its a cat he shaved his whiskers off. After getting it up close to the boat it took off again. He tried to get me to fight it for awhile. I said "you snagged the darn thing you get him in". We laughed and laughed the whole time, but when he got it alongside the boat the second time it broke free. The carp took his crank.....minus the lip.

Hooked just outside the mouth on a double minnow rig today on Barkley. Pulled my glass boat about 50yds and fought it for an eternity it seemed like, they are definitely sporty on crappie tackle.Attachment 357655

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Scott Martin (FLW Pro) has a video on YouTube from a year or two ago where he and his partner are fishing around Paris and found a school of Asians and they put on a big treble and had pretty good luck snagging them.

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Originally Posted by Bstinnett

Scott Martin (FLW Pro) has a video on YouTube from a year or two ago where he and his partner are fishing around Paris and found a school of Asians and they put on a big treble and had pretty good luck snagging them.

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I don't know about TN but Im pretty sure snagging from a boat is illegal in KY ...

Rickie

They have no stomach to digest anything solid or larger than microscopic plankton. There is no bait to catch them, they are filter feeders.

If you want to catch one on rod and reel, tie on a 7/8 oz War Eagle jigging spoon from the Walmart fishing section, or similar. Cast it below the dam into current and you're sure to snag one on the retrieve. Spoons are about the best way to get one, the big 9" Nichols Ben Parker spoons that were hot on KY Lake there for a while caught a bunch of Asian Carp, including the 106 pounder that Bill Schroeder caught in the canal.

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Unofficial Record 106-Pound Asian Carp Caught On Kentucky Lake [PICS]

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I don't know about TN but Im pretty sure snagging from a boat is illegal in KY ...

Rickie

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If you are "obviously" snagging using a HUGE treble hook and a weight, yes that is illegal. However if you are throwing a large spoon with a single treble hook while fishing for stripers and "accidently" hook a carp, that is OK.

I hooked a huge Bighead in the dorsal fin a few weeks back. I was using a Pico crank on 80 feet of line behind an Off Shore planer board with 100 feet of line from the rod to the board. I thought I was hung up tilll it all started running sideways. It took minutes to get the board to where I could take it off the line then fight the fish alone. All I had with me was my Jenko Big T net so dipping it was out of the picture. I winched it all the way to the transom before the crank came loose. That thing looked like it was 4 feet long.

Here’s one a buddy of Finiman (Justin) caught fishing with me. It was foul hooked in the side. It ripped off 300 feet of line on it’s first run. Attachment 357701


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I had no idea they got that big. Wow!

Hope we never see them in our lakes

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

I had no idea they got that big. Wow!

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2 types of Asian Carp - the bighead and the silver

The silvers are the ones that jump and thankfully don't get as big as the bighead. The bighead have been in KY and Barkley for much longer than the silvers, people just didn't pay much attention to them because they aren't the ones that jump.

on a crank yesterday. both sets of trebles in mouth. Attachment 357803


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on a crank yesterday. both sets of trebles in mouth. Attachment 357803

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Nice! They don't eat shad, and even if they tried to they do not possess a true stomach to digest them. They swim with their mouths open sucking up anything in the water, run it over their gill rakers, and whatever isn't plankton gets expelled out. That's why it's not uncommon to hook one in the mouth, because the bait happened to get sucked in.

With no true stomach, that's why they feed continuously, on plankton.