05-08-2013, 04:06 PM
[cool][#0000FF]Au contrere, mon pere. There are hordes of carplets in the harbors and around the shallows of most carp lakes within a month of spawning. But the little buggers grow fast. They are 4 to 5 inches long by late summer and even bigger by early fall...quickly growing too large for all but the biggest predators to eat. Yearling are well over a foot long and keep growing rapidly, depending on available food supplies.
Not sure if they eat pigeons but I have seen big carp slurp in baby ducks. They ain't all strict vegetarians.
Now the reason they get so much bigger in some waters...like the prime habitat of some European ponds and streams...is that they have plenty of food and there is a balance with the predators...like pike and zander (huge walleyes). I also suspect they plant plenty of smallmouth fry for food...but don't tell bassrods.
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Not sure if they eat pigeons but I have seen big carp slurp in baby ducks. They ain't all strict vegetarians.
Now the reason they get so much bigger in some waters...like the prime habitat of some European ponds and streams...is that they have plenty of food and there is a balance with the predators...like pike and zander (huge walleyes). I also suspect they plant plenty of smallmouth fry for food...but don't tell bassrods.
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