Killer carp approach Great Lakes

[Hartley18]

Originally Posted by scottyt

hartley people do shoot em. here is a link with people bow hunting them, not bow fishing. i have seen a vid of some guys with shotguns but i cant find it

A shotgun is what I'd suggest... If they're as thick in the water over there as they are here, loaded with grape you'd get 2-3 in one hit!

Not sure what you'd do with them afterwards though - there are no fenceposts at sea to hang them on. Your neighbours mooring perhaps? Or the local Councillor's driveway??

Good hunting!

[philsboat]

We have huge carp at our club and we have them working for us.Every summer when the weeds get bad we buy 100 lb. bags of corn and spread it around the harbour.The carp come in and pull out the weeds to get the corn.
The ducks love it too but they won't pull the weeds.

Phil

[Diva27]

Originally Posted by philsboat

We have huge carp at our club and we have them working for us.Every summer when the weeds get bad we buy 100 lb. bags of corn and spread it around the harbour.The carp come in and pull out the weeds to get the corn.
The ducks love it too but they won't pull the weeds.

Phil

I'd never heard of that weed-cutting strategy. Very clever. But at our club, I suspect scattering corn would cause the Canada geese to multiply like anthrax.

[Diva27]

Originally Posted by Hartley18

I believe our ancestors were responsible for our problem too - that's way no-one kicks up much of a fuss.. It's like the cane toad problem - a problem you live with until someone finds a solution.



Huh?!? You're Americans! Can't you just shoot them??

Well, speaking for myself, I'm Canadian, and up here in Soviet Canuckistan, I'm pretty sure there's some pesky ordinance forbidding the discharge of firearms into public waters. (Bow hunting sounds promising though...) Actually, a couple dingbats in Saskatchewan just made headlines by filming themselves shooting ducks for kicks while the birds were paddling around in a pond (illegal) and shooting at them from a vehicle (ditto). They posted it on YouTube, were ID'd, rounded up, and slapped with big fines and bans on owning firearms for a couple years.

[Bene505]

Originally Posted by Diva27

Well, speaking for myself, I'm Canadian, and up here in Soviet Canuckistan, I'm pretty sure there's some pesky ordinance forbidding the discharge of firearms into public waters...

There's rules against putting lead shot into the lakes, so you have to use steel shot.

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Back to the original post, I submitted the story to the drudgereport.com site. Since the TV news channels use dudgereport to spot interesting stories, it may get some online and tradition "press" that way.

If anyone has a moment, got to DRUDGE REPORT 2009®, go to the bottom right and paste the lead there for them to see. Better if more than one of us does it, I'd think.

Regards

[SEMIJim]

Originally Posted by Diva27

Well, speaking for myself, I'm Canadian, and up here in Soviet Canuckistan, ....

LOL! I'm gonna have to remember that one .

Originally Posted by Diva27

I'm pretty sure there's some pesky ordinance forbidding the discharge of firearms into public waters.

Probably just as well. The flying attack carp would be bad enough. Now add a lake-full of boaters with shotguns trying to take 'em down on the wing. Somehow seems like a "what could possibly go wrong?" moment.

I wonder... "news" items say they seem to be provoked into jumping at the sound of a power-boat. So... sailboats don't rile them? They attack only stink-boaters?

Hmmm...

Jim

[bobmcgov]

New sport: Carp Skeet. It's unsporting to shoot them in the water. Bunch of hunters on a raft (wearing, what, cloud-pattern camo in a fetching blue?); underwater speakers blare powerboat sounds; shoot em as they leap, boys and girls!

We'll need a new breed of retriever, specifically to fetch the dead and wounded (winged? finned?) carp. The Soo Setter? Canadian Koihound? Michigan Yellow Carper?

Oh sure, this seems like a crisis today. In twenty years, it'll be just another obscure Olympic event dominated by Canadians -- like curling. Did you know curling (sliding heavy granite stones across the ice with tremendous accuracy) was invented to control beaver populations? True fact. Evil little gnawers stick their heads out of a breathing hole ... THUMP.

[Diva27]

Originally Posted by SEMIJim

LOL! I'm gonna have to remember that one .

Jim

I wish I could take credit, but "Soviet Canuckistan" was uttered by the irrepressible Bill O'Reilly on Fox in response to something or other the commie Canadians had done. Like speak French or have public health care. I can't rightly recall, but I'm determined to keep the label alive.

[Diva27]

Originally Posted by SEMIJim

LOL! I'm gonna have to remember that one .
I wonder... "news" items say they seem to be provoked into jumping at the sound of a power-boat. So... sailboats don't rile them? They attack only stink-boaters?

Hmmm...

Jim

It does seem to be engine noise that gets them all freaky. I was hoping sailboats would be immune as well, but of course the moment I fire up my Atomic 4 (aka the Atomic Bomb) I'm sure the water will erupt.

[Diva27]

Originally Posted by bobmcgov

Oh sure, this seems like a crisis today. In twenty years, it'll be just another obscure Olympic event dominated by Canadians -- like curling.

I admit, we only are medal threats in two broad disciplines. One is hard projectiles on ice (curling and hockey) and the other is anything involving sparkle lip gloss and mascara (synchronized swimming, men's and women's figure skating).