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It's carp diem

Most 'rough' fans know only one fish can seize their day

06:35 PM CST on Saturday, March 18, 2006

By RAY SASSER / The Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN - It's a laidback fishing deal at Emma Long Metropolitan Park on
Lake Austin. The lake is really a wide spot on the Colorado River.
Million-dollar mansions are elegantly perched on live oak-covered hills
surrounding the urban oasis. It's the sort of setting that makes the
hills of northern Austin an uncommon place.

Mark Villanova and Donnie Hutchinson are fishing for common carp in this
uncommon place. They've driven down I-35 from their Dallas-area homes
and spent the weekend lounging in camp chairs, playing with Villanova's
two children (Jordan and Jasmine), waiting for the high-pitched alarm
that signals a bite from the rubber-lipped queen of the rough fish.

"Bugle-mouthed bass" is one euphemism for carp. If you look closely at
Cyprinus carpio, you'll understand the description. These Asian imports

They were imported from Europe.
"The first live carp ever seen in North America arrived in Boston in 1877.
The 345 fish were accompanied by Rudolf Hessel, a scientist with the U.S.
government's Fish Commission who had been sent to Europe to collect and
bring back the prized game fish. Hessel stocked several ponds in Boston's
Druid Hill Park with his specimens, and he was thrilled to find that the
fish had no trouble at all surviving on this continent. In fact, Hessel's
carp were soon crowding their ponds."

http://www.acnatsci.org/education/kye/hi/exotics.html

The black carp. grass carp, bighead carp, all of which while members of
the
carp family but don't exactly look like the carp we know are more recent
imports from asia.