A New Plymouth angler has set a new state record after landing a massive grass carp while bow fishing on the Snake River.

Riley Farden's grass carp set a new state-record, smashing the bowfishing record and easily outweighing the rod-and-reel ...

For many anglers, the common carp is a trash fish, literally. They think of carp as living in the mud, something they catch by accident, and when they do, it ends up in the trash or compost pile.

The carp vary in color, although they are mostly brown to black with a bluish-gray to white belly. Their scales are large and overlapping with dark edges giving them a cross-hatched appearance.

(Text added by Euro-Aqua) Photo by Euro-Aqua, via Facebook Roughly 20 minutes later, they had the huge carp in the net, and the owners came out to help weigh it. Their scales registered 47.8 kilos ...

Over at Newton-Le-Willows on Sunday saw a very competitive set of anglers joining up for Sundays open on the canal at Newton.

NEW PLYMOUTH, Idaho — A New Plymouth angler has set a new state record after landing a massive grass carp while bow fishing on the Snake River. According to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game ...