Grass carp

[Guest]

Had one hit a bass popper yesterday.  They are active again. They’re bad about easing up and grabbing the feathers and not the bug/ hook. Sposed to just eat grass. Nada! Had one once slam a streamer but mostly very picky and very spooky. They’re bout 5-8#. Funny how this time of year they are attracted to poppers but never take. Have caught a few in the past on lil midges and green squrmmy stuff. Got lil box together gonna rig some 4X stuff and give ‘em a try on my evening dog swims at local lake.

Managed one on the floater bug. 
They are tough spooky! 

 

 

[niveker 0]

Nice  fish. Nice dog 

[Capt Bob LeMay 0]

The bug folks use down here is tied specifically to resemble a red to purple berry that drops off of trees into canals where grass carp feed on them this time of year.  There was a local guide who came up with it years ago…. All you had to do was find  one of the trees and you’d find the carp eating the berries ( but darned if I can remember the name of the tree…).

[Guest]

M’sipi Fisheries puttem in the state lakes for weed and black algae control.  They do their job too well. They put too many per acre.  Problem is they had no end plan.  We vigorously complained to the biologists and they finally agreed to let people blowfish them.  The lakes are void of vegetation!  When I catch one I stomp him in the mud!

[mikechell 0]

Up north it the Mulberry Trees that would draw the carp in.  That or the white blooms falling off the Catalpa Trees. 

I've never seen those Ficus trees around Central Florida, denduke.  Are they too "tropical" to be this far north?

[Guest]

I know of a handful of mulberry trees.  The chances of one over a body of water that has GRASS carp is prolly in the lottery realm.   Ran across this.  Not sure it’s a grass carp though?

[Capt Bob LeMay 0]

The grass carp down here in south florida get quite big - much bigger I'm guessing than up north... Pretty obvious when they're feeding on berries - but like our big black drum in saltwaters... they pull a bit then come to hand... You wouldn't believe how we get 20 to 40lb black drum to take a fly...