When they finally got the fish onto the mat and onto the scales, it was confirmed that Zenia had landed the biggest carp of ...

Expecting the action to continue into the night, Shane kept applying bait into the swim, but as darkness fell over the lake, ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. — Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp. Over the last five years, agencies ...

WINONA, Minn. – A fishing company just netted a record number of invasive carp in part of the Mighty Mississippi. Anglers made the catch in the river near Winona earlier this week. They reeled ...

A commercial fisherman in Illinois caught a 109-pound bighead carp last week while fishing in the Illinois River's backwaters. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages ...

Carp and buffalo are the primary targets, but the crew will also net sheepshead (freshwater drum). The nets they use are large enough that most of the game fish are not caught.

Linda Beck holding a carp. Credit: Devan Schwartz . By the 1950s, carp were recognized as an ecological wrecking crew. Carp are an aggressive species that eat almost anything: fish eggs, insects ...

That means if small numbers of Asian carp lurked among tens of thousands of fish, odds are they would never turn up in a net or float to the surface if shocked. Asian carp also have a tendency to ...

The 2003 storm that wrecked Ivar’s Mukilteo waterfront restaurant made a star out of an 8-foot wooden carp that went missing for two weeks. So, in the newly rebuilt restaurant, the fish has a ...

"We use these fish as a traitor fish and set the nets around this fish," she said. Four different species are considered invasive carp: bighead, black, grass and silver.