Quote Originally Posted by Fishin is life View Post
The Corps cleans out the splash box right below the dam ever so often...I was talking to one of the people who were cleaning it out and they said there was one single Asian Carp in there....Lets hope those things dont make their way into the lake
If they are in the tail race of green....scary. Some folks net shad below the dam at Green and take them to other bodies of water like Dale and Cumberland and the Cumberland River.

Check out this Bill Dance video regarding the issue of people netting shad in one body and transferring to another. He says and shows that small Asian Carp (Silver Carp) are very hard to distinguish from Gizzard Shad...so it would be easy for someone to actually put the Carp in a lake where there were none before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkMtISRbvGg

That's how the Alewives got into some of our lakes. That changed some things for sure but provide a different set of forage. Asian Carp would really change things and have totally devastated some oxbow lakes along the Mississippi.

I have been concerned with people netting Gizzard Shad in the Ohio River where there are Silver Carp and using them in other lakes and unwittingly stocking those lakes with Asian Carp. Never thought of the tail races of lakes as being a potential source for the accidental stocking of Asian Carp.

What to do about this?

I guess there is an upside to every thing (a stretch). They are actually finding ways to use the fish and I have been reading they are pretty good to eat. There a move to feed the hungry with them. Need to get Mikey to try one (remember the commercial). They say the only thing lacking is a large scale way to collect the things. I just don't see myself as an Asian Carp hunter as of just yet.

The commercial fisherman in the video below from Illinois (Dewey Lake) says, "We either fish for Bigheads (Asian Carp) or nothin"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJDVg...eature=related

http://www.fishin.com/forums2/showth...ght=asian+carp