Boat registration may go up due to Asian Carp Invasion

[Moveon]

I haven't seen a single one, snagged one or had one of those carp to jump in my boat yet, and I've fished the ky river, Ohio river, Ky lake, Barkley lake, Dale hollow, Cherokee, Norris lakes in tn, Weiss lake, Guntersville lakes in Alabama, Sardis lake in Mississippi, and santee cooper in SC. makes me wonder if the carp problem is as bad as the tax collectors are saying it is..

I've not see any either. Maybe we smell bad and they stay away from us? Note: I'm just poking fun and don't mean any disrespect. But there must be a reason why you and I have not seen any yet. My reason is that I don't get the boat out on the water much in the last two years so there is no way I'm going to see them if I'm not out on the water anymore. They are definitely in the Ohio River and KY and Barkley Lake. I guess in a few more years they will be there in much greater numbers if we don't figure out a way to get rid of them without killing all the other fish as the same time. If not we are going to have to kill all the fish from here down to the mississippie river where it dumps into the gulf of Mexico in order to rid the USA of these beastly fish. I fear that they are here to stay and we will just have to learn to live with them as the Asian people do. They came from Asia.

In school we were taught that it was best to keep foreign species out of the USA on land and water. As we don't have natural predators for these foreign species to help control their population when they are brought into the USA. Take the Starling that fly around in huge flocks these day. They over populated our skies and poop on our vehicles by the hundreds. They were brought over here by someone from Europe or Britain. And they have expanded their numbers greatly just as the Asian Carp have. Then there is the plant called Kudzu which grows out of control in the Southern Regions of the USA. We have some of that growing on Red Bank Road on the West Side of Evansville, IN.

We have large constrictor snakes that have invaded the everglades in Southern Florida and they are working their way up north slowly but surely as did the Asian Carp. Yet no one has a way to control them. People are finding their small dogs missing and then seeing a Burmese Python with the dog inside it. They even have been fishing the vicious Rock Pythons in Florida and some experimental data shows that these snakes can survive in North Carolina and South Caroline as well as in the Everglades.

The cat is out of the bag now. So grab your baseball bats and batman shield or Captain America Shields and have someone use them up at the front of your boat while underway to fend off these heavy and solid flying fish from hitting you in the face as your going down the lake at 60 mph. Or slow down and be more careful until we figure out how to get rid of them.

Like I said the only good they do for us fishermen is that they also jump out of the water and hit those Water Rats (jet skiers) that fly all around the lake in the hot summer months and disturb our fishing holes. And the water skiers that send waves into our boats as we fish at anchor also have to slow down or potentially get a fish in their face going 30 mph behind the ski boat. I use to water ski but could not wear my eye glasses or my contact lens while skiing. If I fell and went into the Water Face first the contacts would pop out and I'd lose them. And back then there were expensive to replace. These days I don't have to wear eye glassed to see at a distance anymore. Only when I'm using the computer screen or reading a book do I need those cheap reading glasses to see the fine print. But when I did water ski I could not see much out in front of me. I could not see the facial expressions of my friends in the ski boat and that took a lot of fun out of skiing for me. So I ended up driving the boat a lot more than actually doing the skiing My wife and daughter too the fishing away as all they wanted to do when camping at Patoka Lake or Barkley is water ski.. I got very little fishing time in when I was still married.

So we need everyone to figure out a way to rid the waters of these new exotic and please don't allow anyone else to bring any more exotic species to the USA anymore. The consequences of doing that can be disastrous.

[smashdn]

They seem to be the most apt to get in your boat when you are at what I would call a fast idle. About 5-8 mph they get rowdy.

Had one jump in the boat while hunting backwater this year. bounced off my passenger and ended up on the batteries in the bilge area. He popped the terminals of the searchlight i was using off and left us in the dark. It was the first time the guy I was hunting with had experienced them and freaked him out.

I always forget about them until the first start jumping. One of them baseball bats with barbed wire wrapped on it would be fitting for them.

[waterdog101]

I've not see any either. Maybe we smell bad and they stay away from us? Note: I'm just poking fun and don't mean any disrespect. But there must be a reason why you and I have not seen any yet. My reason is that I don't get the boat out on the water much in the last two years so there is no way I'm going to see them if I'm not out on the water anymore. They are definitely in the Ohio River and KY and Barkley Lake. I guess in a few more years they will be there in much greater numbers if we don't figure out a way to get rid of them without killing all the other fish as the same time. If not we are going to have to kill all the fish from here down to the mississippie river where it dumps into the gulf of Mexico in order to rid the USA of these beastly fish. I fear that they are here to stay and we will just have to learn to live with them as the Asian people do. They came from Asia.

In school we were taught that it was best to keep foreign species out of the USA on land and water. As we don't have natural predators for these foreign species to help control their population when they are brought into the USA. Take the Starling that fly around in huge flocks these day. They over populated our skies and poop on our vehicles by the hundreds. They were brought over here by someone from Europe or Britain. And they have expanded their numbers greatly just as the Asian Carp have. Then there is the plant called Kudzu which grows out of control in the Southern Regions of the USA. We have some of that growing on Red Bank Road on the West Side of Evansville, IN.

We have large constrictor snakes that have invaded the everglades in Southern Florida and they are working their way up north slowly but surely as did the Asian Carp. Yet no one has a way to control them. People are finding their small dogs missing and then seeing a Burmese Python with the dog inside it. They even have been fishing the vicious Rock Pythons in Florida and some experimental data shows that these snakes can survive in North Carolina and South Caroline as well as in the Everglades.

The cat is out of the bag now. So grab your baseball bats and batman shield or Captain America Shields and have someone use them up at the front of your boat while underway to fend off these heavy and solid flying fish from hitting you in the face as your going down the lake at 60 mph. Or slow down and be more careful until we figure out how to get rid of them.

Like I said the only good they do for us fishermen is that they also jump out of the water and hit those Water Rats (jet skiers) that fly all around the lake in the hot summer months and disturb our fishing holes. And the water skiers that send waves into our boats as we fish at anchor also have to slow down or potentially get a fish in their face going 30 mph behind the ski boat. I use to water ski but could not wear my eye glasses or my contact lens while skiing. If I fell and went into the Water Face first the contacts would pop out and I'd lose them. And back then there were expensive to replace. These days I don't have to wear eye glassed to see at a distance anymore. Only when I'm using the computer screen or reading a book do I need those cheap reading glasses to see the fine print. But when I did water ski I could not see much out in front of me. I could not see the facial expressions of my friends in the ski boat and that took a lot of fun out of skiing for me. So I ended up driving the boat a lot more than actually doing the skiing My wife and daughter too the fishing away as all they wanted to do when camping at Patoka Lake or Barkley is water ski.. I got very little fishing time in when I was still married.

So we need everyone to figure out a way to rid the waters of these new exotic and please don't allow anyone else to bring any more exotic species to the USA anymore. The consequences of doing that can be disastrous.

yes, I know we have them in our rivers and lakes, I've seen enough videos that folks have made of them jumping out of the water, to know we have them, I just said I haven't seen any myself, we have them, are they as bad a problem as the tax collectors say they are, I don't know, I don't believe every thing people tell me, when they are trying to get in my wallet, some leaders will cartoon you, if it will profit them, remember a few years back, some leaders even went to war, over people stretching the truth about weapons of mass destruction, the ones that were in the know, were so sure they were there, but they just vanished like a puff of smoke.