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Originally Posted by butts0907
Man...seems like a great day for sure!! You definitely did better than I did! I spent the weekend up at KY Lake and, although we did find a few fish, the wind was a big factor and kept us off a lot of places we wanted to fish.
Also, and I guess a general question, we saw more asian carp up there than I've ever seen in my life. Luckily, they've contracted some sort of disease that's causing them to go crazy and die (saw several jump out of the water onto the bank and had one swimming in circles beside the boat and would actually run into the boat about every 30 seconds or so). But why are these things to dangerous? Do they eat eggs? What do they do that causes them to ruin a lake? I talked to several other people up there that made it sound like they'd just lost their favorite family pet, but never got an explanation on what they do that's so bad. Can anyone educate me a bit??
-Paul
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They outcompete our native fishes for plankton as they are filter feeders and one female can lay 1 million eggs multiple times a year vs a bluegill which lays only 10-40k