Asian Carp at Fort Madison

My buddy B.C. is in Fort Madison practicing for Divisionals this week….while he was idling around he had this guy jump into his boat…..Not good….

Not good at all!

I hope he reported it to the DNR…and didn’t throw it back.

Why bother reporting it? They’ve been there and on our pool which is one up for several years now.
Nothing new.

Why? b/c the more it gets reported the more they realize it’s something that needs to be addressed…If they choose to do nothing about it then so be it….

Nasty. It’ll ruin somebody’s day when one decides to jump ahead of a 70-mph bass boat.

See? Bottom dweller fishes are kinda like the hillbillies of the river. What makes ’em less photogenic ain’t so much the whiskers as the missing teeth.

Don’t worry Slop, the DNR and everyone else living on or near the river down here has known this since they first showed up. Like I said, it’s nothing new here.
In the beginning of this invasion the DNR actually thought it would be stopped at the Keokuk hydroelectric lock and dam because they wouldn’t be able to breach the spillway and there was too much fall at the rollers.
Of course nobody give a thought of those fish locking through with the towboats. and other means of transport by way of water birds.
Might take a few more years before you guys see them jumping up there, but it will happen. You already have the fish, just not a large population to be considered a problem yet.

I agree herb, nobodys seen them around here yet but it dosen’t mean thier not here yet, its only a matter of time.

I heard the Blue Cats made it all the way up to the ford dam