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Absolutely right. Thanks for clearing that up guys.
Here in South Africa there has been a huge move in targeting the various Yellowfish species, especially on fly . Shortline nymphing has been a particularly successful method of catching them. Traditionally we have fly fished for trout which are of course alien here. Yellowfish are a formidable quarry and considered a serious tackle buster. Believe me they are. Its funny you should mention how carp is considered as trash in US. Over here it is the same. Even Bass are considered trash by some of the "fly fishing purists" over here. I too was schooled in those ways until I discovered lures and bait which opened up a whole new world for me. Now I do it all and life is great. "JohnK" wrote in message ... "Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers" wrote in message ... "mr&ms" wrote in message ... Yup...a grass carp Nope, not a grass carp at all, but a totally different fish. A Clanwilliam Yellowfish is "Barbus capensis" and a grass carp, also known as a White Amur, is "Ctenopharyngodon idella." -- Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers True, a different fish. But still a member of the carp family of fish, and the physical resemblance is remarkable, except of colurse for the distinct golden color. I find it interesting that all over the world, common carp is respected and in some places even prized , while in North America we consider it trash. Then, there are a number of other fish in the carp family, which in their own countries of origin are not considered or called "carp", we attach the "carp" suffix to it and automatically reduce it to a trash fish. That is besides the issue of being invasive foreign species that we foolishly brought here. Most of us fishermen now think these new Invasive Asian "carps" are the same barbelled mud diggers we brought here from Germany in the 1800s, which they are not. I'm all for eliminating the name "grass carp" and just calling it White Amur. BTW in Asia they are just called "grass fish". |
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