I fished Ted Shanks on Monday. In about two hours, got 18 really big common carp, lord knows how many buffalo, one smallish longnose gar, a drum, several silver carp, and 7 big bigheads. Biggest two bigheads were males and they were both under 40 pounds, but not by much. If they had been females they would have been well over 40. The females we caught were packed with eggs.

This was all in a net of course. The work god has declared that Carptracker will get no bowfishing in any time soon. But I have been salivating over getting up there to bowfish. Unlike the river Asian carp, these Asian carp are fat and sassy. A bighead from here will weigh double what one of the same length would weigh on the Missouri this year.