Quote Originally Posted by jfw View Post
So they cannot get in via the head waters?
No .... they'd have to travel up the Green River, then up the Rough River .... and then they'd be stopped by the dams in either case.

The only way they could get to the "head waters" of Rough River Lake is to have been transported and dumped into those waters or any of the creeks/rivers that empty into the river headwaters.

Now, I'm not saying they "aren't" in those waters (or the lake), but IF they are ... they didn't get there by themselves. That's the main reason the KDFWR says to not catch "Shad" in one body of water & transport it to another. The fry of the Asian Carp look a lot like a Shad. (same reasoning for not dumping minnows into the lake, because you really don't know if every minnow in the bucket is what you think it is)

Asian Carp spawn several times a year, but they have to have a certain amount of flowage speed in the waters before the eggs will live long enough to develop into fry.