Carp and bass

Anyone know the affect carp have on bass?
What about a whole lot of carp in a lake or pond?

SHRED© wrote:

Anyone know the affect carp have on bass?
What about a whole lot of carp in a lake or pond?




Carp can and do wipe out a small pond or lake of everything,, I
understand they go around sucking up everything from the bottom, when
coming across a fish bed,, they get all the eggs, they get the eggs of
everything, including the bass's food fish,, like blue gill and shad

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Anyone know the affect carp have on bass?
What about a whole lot of carp in a lake or pond?

Some of the effects that carp can have on a lake or pond.

They can decimate the weedbeds in a lake, causing loss of habitat for forage
fish, fry and fingerlings.

They can cause excessive silt dispersion in the water from their rooting in
the bottom. This can cause fish to relocate to other areas of the body of
water. This increase in silt causes the water to darken, which absorbes
more heat from the sunlight, raising the temperature of the water. The
siltation of the water also reduces available sunlight for the aquatic
vegetation, hindering the process of photosynthesis.

They can eat the eggs of other fish in the lake, reducing natural
reproduction.

They compete with other native species, reducing available food.

They are extremely prolific breeders, growing fast under less than ideal
conditions. Once beyond a certain size, there is nothing to prey on them.

Other than that, not much ;-p
--
Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
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There are lots of factors that play into this question. In the worst
case, carp stir up so much sediment they turn the water turbid -- which
leads to more algae blooms, cuts the amount of light in the water which
restricts plant growth and reduces the amouth of little plankton and
such.....in a bad case it can virtually kill all other species. However,
there are a lot of factors that contribute to turbid water and many
attempts to control.

Your local DNR will ahvve some ideas and guidelines of the acceptable
biomass of carp per acre.

Here's a link on some carp control studies

http://www.hort.agri.umn.edu/h5015/00papers/baldry.htm

QUOTE:
Cyprinus carpio (common carp) are regarded as one of the most important
freshwater fish in the world, considered prized food in Asia, Europe and
the Middle East. When introduced into ponds in Washington D.C. in the
1870?s, they were believed to be so valuable that the ponds had to be
guarded (Eddy and Underhill 1974).





In coXxc.26720$tI2.7932@fed1read07 SHRED© wrote:
Anyone know the affect carp have on bass?
What about a whole lot of carp in a lake or pond?

SHRED© wrote in message
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Anyone know the affect carp have on bass?
What about a whole lot of carp in a lake or pond?

I don't know what the carp actually do to affect bass, but I do know that
the presence of carp doesn't necessarily preclude a good bass population,
because in many bodies of water both small and large, carp and bass seem to
co-exist quite nicely.

Very true Marty, I've even seen bass intermingling with carp on
severaloccasions.

Warren

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SHRED© wrote in message
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Anyone know the affect carp have on bass?
What about a whole lot of carp in a lake or pond?

I don't know what the carp actually do to affect bass, but I do know that
the presence of carp doesn't necessarily preclude a good bass population,
because in many bodies of water both small and large, carp and bass seem
to
co-exist quite nicely.