01-03-2007, 07:59 PM
From what I've seen of Utah Lake with the carp, they're not going anywhere. I'm not afraid to say my first fish at the tender age of 9 months old was a big old ugly carp by Saratoga. And look at what it's done to me since then.[
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The only thing, in my oppinion, that would help reduce the carp population would be increasing the white bass and other major predator populations. Kind of a catch 22 in terms of the June Suckers. When you have a white bass population large enough to decimate the numbers of carp that are surviving from fry to adulthood, the carp numbers go down. But, that would mean more fish eating the suckers.
There's no easy solution to this mess. The key is the carp, though. And I personally believe the key to the carp are the white bass. I could be wrong(I am a lot more than I'm right), but that's what I think.
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] The only thing, in my oppinion, that would help reduce the carp population would be increasing the white bass and other major predator populations. Kind of a catch 22 in terms of the June Suckers. When you have a white bass population large enough to decimate the numbers of carp that are surviving from fry to adulthood, the carp numbers go down. But, that would mean more fish eating the suckers.
There's no easy solution to this mess. The key is the carp, though. And I personally believe the key to the carp are the white bass. I could be wrong(I am a lot more than I'm right), but that's what I think.
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