More troubling, finding the less-aggressive grass carp in the Great Lakes watershed is “an indication that other species of Asian carp — silver, bighead and black carp — might be able to reproduce ...

Fly anglers are figuring out that carp is not a fish to look down your nose at. They are challenging, strong, accessible, and most importantly, flat out fun to catch on a fly rod. You don't have to ...

I leaned over the bow of a speeding boat with a long-handled net in my hands. The muddy water of a tributary of the Missouri River splashed my face. A fat, silver fish, as long as my arm, leapt out of ...

“Trash fish” inhabit a wide variety of environments, and the right carp bait will depend on the type of water and current conditions. These much-maligned creatures have long been treated as nothing ...

There are two perceptions of common carp among anglers in the United States. One group believes that carp are dumb and that nothing could be easier than going after them. They believe that learning ...

The sight of thousands of fish being washed out to sea from the rivers in Australia has spurred on calls to eradicate the invasive species by using a strange method: releasing a herpes virus.

DETROIT – Care for a plate of slimehead? How about some orange roughy? It's the same fish, but one sounds much more palatable than the other. The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service gave the ...

The June Sucker Recovery Implementation Program has gone to great lengths to reduce the population of invasive carp in Utah Lake and restore the once endangered June sucker fish to its native habitat.

Asian carp are invasive fish that grow fast, jump high and have taken over large swaths of the Mississippi watershed. And now, state and federal governments are worried the Great Lakes are next. On ...

As an experienced angler and tackle retailer, I've spent countless hours testing and recommending the best carp feeder rods ...

Once a simple food fish, koi have transformed into living jewels, with some fetching sky-high prices in the global luxury market. Here's how this happened. In the world of high-end pets, few creatures ...

Americans can be picky about their fish, and if you ask a typical seafood lover if you can eat carp, you might get a puzzled look in return. This isn’t because carp aren’t edible. They definitely are, ...