Posted: November 15, 2025 | Last updated: November 15, 2025 We're on the rocky shoreline today with Catch-a-Carp bait pockets stuffed with corn fishing for common carp! Sometimes it's the simple ...

What do you do in private life after a public-sector stint trying to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes? You catch as many of those flapping fish as you can and ship them to the Atlantic coast—as ...

Carp are an afterthought to many anglers, but their massive size and elusive behavior make them a fun species to target with rod and reel. Jordan Rodriguez Many local fisheries are loaded with carp, ...

In the United States, carp are mostly considered “trash fish.” These non-native bottom feeders were introduced to our country centuries ago and have adapted and thrived so well that they exist in ...

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game might pay commercial fishermen to remove an estimated 5 million pounds of invasive carp from Lake Lowell. The carp could be sold as food in China or India, or ...

Want to know what carp eat? Believe it or not, carp have one of the most diverse palates of all freshwater fishing swimming in the United States. They’re herbivores, and while they dine on a massive ...

On a vast stretch of the Mississippi River, Kayla Zankle drags a trawl over the front of an aluminum fishing boat. A custom metal frame clangs loudly as the net swings into the water below, where ...

News of the impending Asian Carp invasion of the Great Lakes is sobering. But I have a solution. Are you listening, Maine Lobsterman’s Association? These fish have been clogging waterways and ...

This story was published in the April 2008 issue. CARP FISHING is like soccer. The rest of the world is stark-raving mad about the sport “football” to the other 6.3 billion people on the planet), and ...

How do you feel about common carp? No doubt, they have their zealots in the U.S., some of whom chase them with fly rods, while others use bite alarms, boilies, and specialty rigs adopted from the ...