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[#0000FF][cool]Yeah, right.
Actually, the 100 pound 8 oz. fish in the top picture was caught in France. It was released and caught again a few days later...weighing a bit over 99 pounds...in the same lake by a different angler.
[url "http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/excursions/post/world-record-carp/"]LINK TO STORY[/url]
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What a fight that must have been!
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Wow that would be some big tugs....Bet it would be hell to perform the normal surgery before release. That is one big carp.
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[quote wyoguy]What a fight that must have been![/quote]
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[quote fish_fear_me2]Wow that would be some big tugs....Bet it would be hell to perform the normal surgery before release. That is one big carp.[/quote]
[#0000FF]Couldn't/wouldn't/shouldn't kill a carp in France...or most European countries. That would probably get you a trip to the guillotine...or worse. They worship carpkind over there and almost always release the ones they catch.
Anyhooters, I would never even try to rassle one that big into my tube with me...so that I could perform the complimentary gillectomy.
My biggest carp ever was about a third that size and it was plenty big for me...especially on light gear.
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Not to harp on carp, but that monster brings up a query: are carp like pigeons? Because you never see a baby one.
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[cool][#0000FF]Au contrere, mon pere. There are hordes of carplets in the harbors and around the shallows of most carp lakes within a month of spawning. But the little buggers grow fast. They are 4 to 5 inches long by late summer and even bigger by early fall...quickly growing too large for all but the biggest predators to eat. Yearling are well over a foot long and keep growing rapidly, depending on available food supplies.
Not sure if they eat pigeons but I have seen big carp slurp in baby ducks. They ain't all strict vegetarians.
Now the reason they get so much bigger in some waters...like the prime habitat of some European ponds and streams...is that they have plenty of food and there is a balance with the predators...like pike and zander (huge walleyes). I also suspect they plant plenty of smallmouth fry for food...but don't tell bassrods.
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I cant imagine even attempting a 30lb carp in a tube.... Might be able to water ski behind it.
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Please take this down before the lunitic from the "save the carpz foundation" see's this.[sly]
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hahahaha that made me spit coffee
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We will hear about how we need to dedicate a fishery to just carp and have a world class carp-ery in Utah.[crazy]
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Haha Pat if you tried to land that in your *modified* tube you would be in trouble! I think with the mods and extra weight you'd become a low rider LOL.
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[quote TyeDyeTwins]We will hear about how we need to dedicate a fishery to just carp and have a world class carp-ery in Utah.[crazy][/quote]
Maybe we should pitch in for a one way ticket to France for him. [
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[#0000FF]That amount of extra weight aboard would probably sink me fer shure.
Moby carp? The great golden whale?
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Some of u guys just make me LOL. As if I care what u think of me.
On a serious note, how come it was about a pound smaller when recaught? Slowly losing weight/dying?
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TD, if carp grow so fast that all you ever see is bigun's, then they are perzackly like pigeons. And don't forget that both carp and pigeon are prized table fare in the Old Country. Another parallel.
(I've eaten both. Fixed right, they're fine to darn good.)
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