you can step on 20000 cockroaches but they are still comin back. they are coming from the miss. thats where they need to be targeted.I heard that the special 3 week's of fishing for bighead carp below the Carlyle Lake Dam was unreal. I heard there was a goal of 16,000lbs. to be removed and that was done in two days. I never did get the final tally of how many of those bighead's were netted but hopefully this is something that will continue.
I agree there has to be someway of marketing them as it is so easy to catch tons without really trying.
The only problem with that is they aren't spawning exclusively in the Mississippi anymore. At anytime and any place those things can be removed will help. Will it fix the problem, no but if nothing is done the problem just gets worse. To think that pulling them out of anywhere in the river systems that connects to the Mississippi doesn't help isn't thinking of the big picture. I would say that these carp are more concentrated in the Illinois and Kaskaskia Rivers. The past two years I find it more dangerous on these two rivers than the Mississippi.keep on catchin em in the spillways, it wont make one bit of difference. they are coming upstream from the miss. they will spawn every season just like any other fish. catch a million in carlyle spillway and it wont matter. we have to target them in the miss. you cant keep weeds outta your garden by cuttin off the leaves.:sad2:
I did alot more running on the Mississippi River last year than the Kaskaskia River...guess which I had more problems with jumping carp. I still think the Illinois is the worst of the three.I am scared of the Mississippi... and I had plans on fishing the Kaskaskia.. now you are going to make me more scared to fish the Kaskaskia with comments like that! :crazy: