This 18×32 Bugle boy smacked a Flu Flu jig tipped with a minnow in 4fow. The daughter told me I was snagged, I reply with…nope, just hooked a submarine 
The 2lb line and crappie tackle made it necessary to chase this rascal around for awhile before I could get him to commit too saying cheese for the camera 
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The daughter told me I was snagged, I reply with…nope, just hooked a submarine
That is quite a BRUTE Bret 
bret, thats one healthy looking carp! 
You gave up on what piece of water to catch what! Healthy and good shoulders. 
I can only image the fight these brutes put up on light line. Had to be a lot of fun. They may not be eater, but they are still a blast.
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I can only image the fight these brutes put up on light line. Had to be a lot of fun. They may not be eater, but they are still a blast.
They are a great fight but you would be surprised if you ate one. The meat is firm and much like tuna. One of my buddies lives near lake mead and harvests them to can them and use in place of tuna. I smoke them out of clean waters and there is never enough when I bring it to a gathering.
Two of those smallmouth buffalo? Took my nephew to this one spot twice and when the cats would not cooperate, he through out a crawler. Both times he caught a smallmouth buffalo. If there is a slimier fish, I don’t know about it. Got slime on my shorts that wouldn’t wash out.
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A couple of roughies I caught fishing for walleyes on pool 2. Tail hooked the carp. Boy do they fight when you tail hook them.
Looks like 2 quillbacks, a redhorse and a common carp?
Yeah, they are quills.
sorry should have put this in the picture text
1- Carp
2- River carpsucker
3- redhorse
4- smallmouth buffalo
Dude, I’m pretty sure your River Carpsucker and your Smallmouth Buffalo are both actually quillbacks.
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Dude, I’m pretty sure your River Carpsucker and your Smallmouth Buffalo are both actually quillbacks.
Dude, The buffalo is a buffalo I know that fore sure. You could be right on the river carpsucker.
Looks like you’re right on the buffalo… hard to say about the carpsucker/quillback, though, without being able to see the dorsal fin better.
This is a really cool page for the sucker family:
http://www.epa.gov/bioiweb1/html/photos_fish_freshwater_suckers.html
I have enough problem IDing under utilized fish that I generally call either a carp or a sucker and now I learn there is a fish called a carpsucker? WTF!
…ok, I knew there was a carpsucker, but that statement rings true for me. It’s either a sucker or a carp.
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I have enough problem IDing under utilized fish that I generally call either a carp or a sucker and now I learn there is a fish called a carpsucker? WTF!
Hey, someone needs to keep the carp clean! 
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I can only image the fight these brutes put up on light line. Had to be a lot of fun. They may not be eater, but they are still a blast.
They are a great fight but you would be surprised if you ate one. The meat is firm and much like tuna. One of my buddies lives near lake mead and harvests them to can them and use in place of tuna. I smoke them out of clean waters and there is never enough when I bring it to a gathering.
I’d be interested in learning how you smoke them if you don’t mind sharing.
While I’ve never caught a carp that wasn’t out of the river, I could look 
Fillet them out like a normal fish? Brine/seasoning?
Ok, Sorry to pull this thread off track.
Here’s a buffalo I got several years back
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I have enough problem IDing under utilized fish that I generally call either a carp or a sucker and now I learn there is a fish called a carpsucker? WTF!
I hear ya, I think someone just made that one up 
So if Carp are like tuna, does that make them the chicken of the river
Oh come on! Appreciate the diversity! I love fishing the river specifically for the fact that I can catch pretty much anything and am pretty stoked when it is a species I don’t see too often.
Also, smoked carp is really good.
Here is one from today while walleye fishing on the river. Just shy of 31 but very thick probably the biggest one I have ever caught. The second picture is of a buffalo I caught last week on a crank bait also probably a PB for me.
This one my be my biggest ever. It was a 2 hander Caught on a tube jig. She measured 34″ and I’d guess in the mid 30 lb range. I took her to the National Eagle Center to feed the eagles. I suspect she feed em for a week.
John
Nice Fish 
Not my biggest carp by ant means but Pretty she’s is Tasted good on the smoker my PB carp was caught off wall in spring at lock anddam 9 Measured 43″ and weighed 37.5 wish I had a picture 25 min battle snagged in the tail 6lb test on UL 6ft St Croix was pure luck 3 times made a run that left me with 1 wrap on 1000 shimano hard to beat the fight these fish put up and powerful too
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