Re: Carp fishing
Originally Posted by
Steelpulse
I release a lot in mostly contained carp swamps, but have also stacked a few on the bank with a bow before and it is a lot of fun. I actually think it’s probably fairly popular opinion that the carp should be fertilizer at least with most of the people I have spoken too.
I will do more to kill everyone in the okanagan for sure. Most are in salmon and trout streams and a big carp can Hoover some serious egg during the spawn and really pack on the pounds.
How long can anyone remeber them being here? Any of you older guys remember them as kids in any lakes. And how they got to the okanagan? I imagine swimming up rivers from America over the years is one way. I suppose someone could have just dumped a few in one day 40-50yrs ago.
another thing, what is the maximum capacity of carp in these lakes. With a lot of cold water season their spawning and growth is limited vs waters where they can grow and spawn year round. How much can they actually expand and destroy habitat. What is the damage they have done so far or how many trout and salmon are killed because of the eggs being eaten.
All of this just for the sake of conversation. Maybe. Should go back to school and study the carp in BC haha
I go back a little longer than that in the lower Okanagan and they were right plentiful back then.
When school was out for the summer, I used to go with my dad when he worked on the Okanagan River channel dredging from OK Falls to Osoyoos Lake. Carp were in great abundance.
The low land area along the channel from Oliver to Osoyoos Lake was always subject to flooding during the spring runoff. This particular year, the dredging and subsequent dyke trapped many different fish species behind the dyke. The most prolific species were bass and carp with carp exceeding the bass. We packed many carp home to fertilize the garden.
One of the fellows I knew along with his brother used to spear fish them using snorkel and mask. I remember that one of them got towed around for half an hour before he managed to get his carp. This was north of the SS Sicamous.
Another good area, especially for bow-fishing was in the bay on the north-east corner of Vaseux Lake. This area may not to be so good now as I understand that Shuttleworth Creek slit load has pretty much made it into a very shallow marsh area.
Did I mention that pheasant populations were pretty good throughout that zone?
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