Anyone see the lake Mendocino carp this last week?

This guy found them!

Love that pic. Can't think of a better use for carp. I remember my dad in Canada used to love them for fertilizing his trees. In England they were considered quite a catch compared to the Perch, Bream and Roach we would catch in the canals. When I lived along the Corte Madera Creek in the 70s we used to rail em.

cool pic!

Aren't grass carp illegal to fish in CA?

If I remember correctly (an iffy proposition), the only way to posses a grass carp legally in CA is to buy tri-ploids (sterile) from the Imperial Valley irrigation district (read - Not cheap),

AFAIK they are not wild in any CA waters, but they are used extensively to remove weeds from irrigation canals in S. CA, so maybe that's where they are illegal to fish? Hugely prolific, they are causing havoc in the Mississippi where escapees from catfish farms are spoiling habitat for native fish.

Top secret carp bait and techniques????? Really?  I can see protecting your large Ab beds, LMB and SMB haunts and special "knock them dead" techniques, but Carp?   

Next week, we will hear about the super secret squawfish techniques.  I'll give you a hint, it involves a nightcrawler and a spark plug.

Seriously, they are a lot of fun to catch and a hook full of corn has always worked for me in a pinch in non-trout waters.  When there was absolutely nothing else to catch that is........

I went out today crusing the lake and finally found the carp. They where crusing right  underneath my yak. I anchored and dropped corn down and nothing they went right by it.
I am processing my secret carp bait that will stop those babys in their tracks, its just not done yet so i had to use corn.

And yes i keep it quite. When i first starting seeing the carp at the south boat ramp eating the bread people where feeding the ducks, I would bring my 6 year old daughter and her friends fishing for them. They had a ball for two summers, screaming kids big fish lots of pics and all C&R.
then i made the mistake of showing an really nice old timer how to fish for them using bread. He tells me a couple of days later that he caught 10 of them the next day one after another and gave them all to a Mexican lady, telling her how to catch them. I took the kids there the next day and the Mexican farmworkers where linned up shoulder to shoulder fishing for them. There was no room for the kids to fish....And its was shoulder to shoulder every year since when the water was high enough.

Those dang Mexicarp are elusive! 

Those dang Mexicarp are elusive! 

Ya they ruined my fun. I get a kick out of taking kids fishing and crabing. that was a perfect spot and fish for the kids. Around ukiah we have quite a few Mexican farmworkers that live year round at the winerys.

While they are all really nice hardworking people they have no respect for the enviroment and catch and eat everything they can. They put fishtraps in the Russian river when the salmon and steelhead run and would do a number on the carp if they knew how to chatch them. Luckly the old hook and weight doesnt work well.

Its a shame we dont have winerys around the eel river they would do a number on the squawfish.

Wow dude--some of those comments are extremely offensive.
Blanket statements like, "While they are all really nice hardworking people they have no respect for the enviroment and catch and eat everything they can" are completely unfair and biased.

I'm sorry that your carp spot was over-exploited by some unethical anglers. I've had similar experiences after sharing my secret fishing spots. But when I returned to find my spot overrun w/litter and fishless....I didn't blame an entire race (dang Germans!). Instead, I blamed the individual anglers who were responsible, including myself.
PK   

(dang Germans!)

I blame Cheney   

Wow dude--some of those comments are extremely offensive.
Blanket statements like, "While they are all really nice hardworking people they have no respect for the enviroment and catch and eat everything they can" are completely unfair and biased.

I'm sorry that your carp spot was over-exploited by some unethical anglers. I've had similar experiences after sharing my secret fishing spots. But when I returned to find my spot overrun w/litter and fishless....I didn't blame an entire race (dang Germans!). Instead, I blamed the individual anglers who were responsible, including myself.
PK   

didnt mean to offend...Ok how about the people that eat carp around here have linned up shoulder to shoulder catching and keeping everything once they learned to fish for them with bread in that one spot on the lake.
I dont want those people that are catching and keeping all the carp they can, finding out how to get them to hit as easily as a bluegill hits a worm. See i think its a blast catching 7 to 25lb fish one after another with an occasional channel cat thorwn in.

Oh and the people that eat carp also tell me that they love to eat the squawfish. Its a better tasting fish, lots of bones like the carp. I give some carp eating friends a bunch of squawfish when i take the kids fishing at Pillsbury.

same thing happens with people who eat shad in the sac and american rivers, except you cant narrow it down to any one race.  there are just people out there who look to catch and kill everything that they can.

Wow, do we need a link to "How to get yourself banned?"

Michael