04-02-2014, 08:34 PM
[quote wormandbobber][quote utahgolf] I've caught some fat carp on 3-5 inch perch lures that I throw early spring. but I've also had biologists tell me pike won't eat carp, so it doesn't surprise me what I hear.[/quote]
I have spent a lot of time at Yuba the past 6-7 years….I have caught carp using many different plugs both in size an color. Just because I caught a carp on a rainbow trout colored jerk bait, though, doesn't make me believe they are preying on rainbow trout.
Start opening up some of those carp and look in their stomachs….you show me a carp and its stomach contents full of perch, and I will believe you. IN fact, I will come on here and gladly admit I was wrong. I have seen lots and lots of schools of carp in Yuba--big schools of carp--but, I have never seen them preying on other fish….not in May, June, July, August, September, or October.[/quote]
I can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull's rectum but I'd rather take the butchers word for it!!!!!!!!!! carp eat perch fry and small perch! I bet I could also clean a few carp and not find a worm in there stomach, but I know they eat worms.
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I have spent a lot of time at Yuba the past 6-7 years….I have caught carp using many different plugs both in size an color. Just because I caught a carp on a rainbow trout colored jerk bait, though, doesn't make me believe they are preying on rainbow trout.
Start opening up some of those carp and look in their stomachs….you show me a carp and its stomach contents full of perch, and I will believe you. IN fact, I will come on here and gladly admit I was wrong. I have seen lots and lots of schools of carp in Yuba--big schools of carp--but, I have never seen them preying on other fish….not in May, June, July, August, September, or October.[/quote]
I can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull's rectum but I'd rather take the butchers word for it!!!!!!!!!! carp eat perch fry and small perch! I bet I could also clean a few carp and not find a worm in there stomach, but I know they eat worms.
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