{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Mossy Creek

Check out this lunker sucker from a few weeks ago. 6x. disco midge. 

On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 11:52:28 AM UTC-7, Ashley Frohwein wrote:

we all know the real test: if it put up a fight, it was a carp.

On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 12:00:09 PM UTC-5, Justin Schiavone wrote:

That looks like a carp to me.

Right Misha? I've certainly had difficulty in distinguishing these fish in the past, but I think I have a good understanding now. Here is the way I tell the difference and why I believe it is a carp:

Looks too golden for a sucker/ fall fish. And has an arching back. Turns out these fish ARE NOT in the same family. The easiest way to tell; however, is the barbels that protrude from a carps mouth, but NOT from a suckers. This is not able to be seen in the photo, but you can corroborate if they were. The mouths also differ in that carps are more centered, whereas a sucker is completely downward.

SUCKKKKASS.

Hope this helped.

Justin

On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at 12:23:23 PM UTC-7, Misha Gill wrote:

Paging Justin Schiavone.... He's caught carp in Beaver Creek Md I know for a fact.

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