Fish ID help

[ksmitty]

Found this fish in central Alberta. Is it a carp

[THEREAPER]

Found this fish in central Alberta. Is it a carp

That my friend is a prussian carp! kill it! and report it!

[ksmitty]

It's dead. Report to SRD?

[THEREAPER]

It's dead. Report to SRD?

Yup
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[ksmitty]

Thanks reaper.

[pinelakeperch]

Prussian Carp. Big one at that.

[ksmitty]

About 11" long and 6" deep. The Red deer river is in trouble

[Brandonkop]

About 11" long and 6" deep. The Red deer river is in trouble

How did it fight?

[Newellknik]

I think ,did you find more than one .

[ksmitty]

It was trapped in an opening of the river with a couple suckers. I just grabbed it by hand. Not too glorious

[Flieguy]

lemme at em with a triple nymph rig this summer :fighting0021:

better yet go tell all the googans keeping Tiger trout that Prussian Carp taste 10x better.

[waterfowler]

They are starting to take over our lower reaches of watersheds. The systems that are said to have them are the oldman up to the dam, Bow up to bearspaw dam and the Reddeer system up to Dickson dam.

[huntsfurfish]

They are starting to take over our lower reaches of watersheds. The systems that are said to have them are the oldman up to the dam, Bow up to bearspaw dam and the Reddeer system up to Dickson dam.

Not good!

[EZM]

lemme at em with a triple nymph rig this summer :fighting0021:

better yet go tell all the googans keeping Tiger trout that Prussian Carp taste 10x better.

lol ....... googans ..........lol

I haven't heard that since I lived on the east coast in the US ...... lmfao

[wildwoods]

Pardon my ignorance. Where did this crisis originate? Bucket biologists? Do they multiply like rabbits? Fill me in

[goldscud]

Private ponds....into irrigation ditches/humans transporting....they are getting everywhere and very good at reproduction

[Dale S]

From someone who spends pretty much every weekend on the Oldman River. I still have not caught or seen any being caught.
Anyone from AO ever catch any in the Oldman.

[Tom Pullings]

Never heard tell of such things in the oldman.

[LanceL]

The only water shed that ive heard that has them is in the Reddeer. Honestly F&W have known of them in there for the last 3 years that I know of, and really the only thing they've done is put up signs.
I think some more drastic methods are going to be needed to clean up this mess.

[huntsfurfish]

The only water shed that ive heard that has them is in the Reddeer. Honestly F&W have known of them in there for the last 3 years that I know of, and really the only thing they've done is put up signs.
I think some more drastic methods are going to be needed to clean up this mess.

Impossible to clean up now.

[Flieguy]

there is no way to get them 100% out, and as long as there are some left they will breed.

Best bet is to keep bonking as you catch haha. Just make sure that you can tell them apart from quillbacks and the like!!

[Jonesy]

Blood Indian Reservoir as well has them now.

[James Henry]

My nephew and I got 25-30 pounds of 1"-4" carp at a slough by Bieseker. We were in the reeds and there were thousands of them. We scooped them up with our hands into a black garbage bag. Some ended up as bait and the rest fed a bunch of happy magpies and crows.
Jh

[huntsfurfish]

My nephew and I got 25-30 pounds of 1"-4" carp at a slough by Bieseker. We were in the reeds and there were thousands of them. We scooped them up with our hands into a black garbage bag. Some ended up as bait and the rest fed a bunch of happy magpies and crows.
Jh

Just a heads up, not legal as bait anywhere in Alberta!

[huntsfurfish]

From the regs:

Fishing with Bait Fish

Bait Fish means any of the following:

suckers (family Catostomidae)
sticklebacks (family Gasterosteidae)
trout-perch (Percopsis omiscomaycus)
Iowa darter (Etheostoma exile)
minnows (family Cyprinidae), except carp, goldfish and the western silvery minnow.

Note: Pet store fish (tropical fish) or crayfish cannot be used as bait fish.

[James Henry]

Yes, thank you. Will feed more birds!

[Fishslayer99]

The only water shed that ive heard that has them is in the Reddeer. Honestly F&W have known of them in there for the last 3 years that I know of, and really the only thing they've done is put up signs.
I think some more drastic methods are going to be needed to clean up this mess.

These things have been around Alberta for over 10 years now, as far as I was told from SRD they originated in the Rosebud River, likely from a bucket brigade or flooded pond.

They are in almost every water body in the South and East of Calgary due to the WHD canal system. They are also in the Red Deer river, the Bow river, the South Saskatchewan river, and the Oldman river.

SRD has openly admitted they can not or will not do anything about it...very sad situation, best thing to do is kill them if you catch them. They can not be eliminated and are here to stay and will get more and more abundant. I started a thread that is up right now called Invasion of Prussian carp for some more info.