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[Rodney]

Those are not grass carp. This is what a grass carp looks like:

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=79

Those are bighead carp, an invasive species that has taken over the eastern freshwater bodies and poses a danger not only to the native aquatic lives but also the lives of boaters:

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=275

They are in fact a popular fish in Chinese cooking, very delicious from what the times when I tried them.

[BwiBwi]

Those are silver carp.  Ther were introduced into irrigational canel for farm polution control.  As silver carp 'eats' (filter) plankton and algae and the reason they were chosen is because they don't eat small fish.  Bighead carp is similar but bighead carp doesn't jump. 

[Rodney]

You're right. They sure look similar. Here's silver carp:

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=274

Both bighead and silver carp are invasive species in the Great Lakes.

[liketofish]

They shoud put the Silver/Big Head carps in those English carp ponds and run Fish Omania shows with those carps. That will make the long & boring WFN show much more entertaining if the carps are all aerial jumpers instead of those silly head-tuckers, all two hours of them.   

Let's stock them in a local lake where the bass are and run the motor thru. HeeHaw! Ok, you can't shoot them by reg., but you shouldn't get a ticket if they jump into your boat? Right?  They don't prey on other small fish, so they don't harm fish stocks like the bass do. What the heck! Most local lakes/ponds have carps there already 

[liketofish]

Small green fly or green wool will be a greak bait for an algae eater. Flossing for silver carp? Bring them on. 

[younggun]

That is so dangerous! Two boats side by side,two guys with a bow and arrow side by side in each boat, and if u noticed they were shooting across the otherguys body, imagine what could happen. that is just stupid! In one part u can see the shooter hit a fish that is directly inline with another boat, good thing they didn't miss.

[newsman]

I'm with Steelhawk definitely a target for us big game fly anglers. That would be a trip to target them in a canoe or pontoon, what you say GolfMan.

[liketofish]

Some body should call the phone # of the fishing operator and ask them what other methods can work on the fish. If fly fishing is great for them, ask them particularly on a good fly pattern and speed of retrieved. If this works, this place will be a mecca for big game flyfishers who like to see these incredable jumps in their fish like they are flying kites. 

[speycaster]

Pretty hard to tie a size 76 plankton fly,  plus the 46x leader would not last long. Even the guys that net some of the rivers hate them as they tear up nets like seals. If you do as search on utube there is a video of a section of river where they electro shock to see numbers of fish. There are hundreds if not thousands jumping at once. Guys in the boat are ducking like crazy. We definetly do not want them in our water systems. Ontario is the only province to make it illegal to posess live silver carp. The people who come from the carps native land believe it is good luck to release them.

[Britguy]

I wonder if they are using barbless arrows
if they were to be used in the Lower Mainland with our weather they could call it Rain-Bow fishing
 

[adriaticum]

This is the asian carp problem in the Mississippi.
During Katrina pools full of these fish overflowed and they populated the river.
The biggest worry here is that they are going straight for the great lakes and could decimate all fish stocks in their path.

[Steelhawk]

I thought they don't eat other fish or smolts, unlike Bass.  Ya, you can say they eat up the green algae, but I thought algae boom is also deadly for fish, sucking up all oxygen in the water. So what is wrong with this fish? Good eating, great leaping, and quite a size too. Bring them to a bass lake or Ladner sloughs where carps belong.