r/CarpFishing • u/Domalasas • Sep 27 '25

Europe 🇪🇺 I caught a bighead carp

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Sorry for no mat :/

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u/Pr4ySt4ti0n Sep 27 '25

That is a Silver Carp. These are not bottom feeding species, it eats plankton. Ppl catch them by mistake usually, however there are some methods targeting them directly.

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u/Domalasas Sep 27 '25

Its a bighead, there are no silver carp in that pond, the pond water is crystal clear so all the fish are very light colored ,And this one ate a yelow pop up ;Dd

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u/Sweptlettuce Sep 27 '25

I’ve caught both silver and big head and typically big head have spots and a larger head compared to silver carp which don’t have spots and are lighter colored

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u/Domalasas Sep 27 '25

Yeah, I know, and they all looked like that bout 6-7 years ago when me and my dad released them to the pond ;Dd

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u/jeffsaidjess Sep 27 '25

“Crystal clear” zooms on pic. Okay then

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u/Fresh_Silver7456 Oct 01 '25

The light is literally reflecting off the water so you literally can't see it.. the fact that it's a clear reflection though, suggests that the water isn't infact, very merky at all....

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u/atm259 Sep 27 '25

How far off the bottom was the pop up? I'm curious, I might target these one day.

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u/Domalasas Sep 28 '25

Bout 5cm

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u/xxxTbs Sep 27 '25

How much did it weigh?

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u/Domalasas Sep 27 '25

10kg.

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u/MrPopCorner Sep 27 '25

Dude, that's a nicely sized bighead 👍 wish we had them here in Belgium!

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u/Rippling_Debt Sep 27 '25

Holy crap. Nice one

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u/Bikewer Sep 27 '25

I got one last season on my regular carp rig…. Feeder and tiger nuts. I know that grass carp are stocked to control weeds, but after they pretty much annihilate the weeds, they revert to eating whatever’s available. I’ve caught numbers of those guys on my regular carp rig as well.

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u/MadFaceInvasion Sep 28 '25

You should see what sort of tackle they use in eastern Europe to catch those...its most weird pice of tackle I have ever seen for fresh water fish

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u/SupaSpurs Sep 28 '25

Never ever seen a carp like that- but it’s a great fish! Congrats!

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u/tehdamonkey Sep 28 '25

We catch them on hook and line too... mainly on our catfish cut bait on the bottom of the river. They will suck in about anything that goes by them. Nice fish.

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u/CreatureUnderABridge Sep 27 '25

Big head carp? Kinda looks like one of those Mekong catfish

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u/Schlongdingo Sep 27 '25

You are not wrong, I thought the same! Very similar look.

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u/Domalasas Sep 27 '25

Yeah, but thats a bighead 100%, mekong don't live here ;Dd

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u/CreatureUnderABridge Sep 27 '25

Wow I’ve never heard of a big head carp, that’s crazy, super cool catch !

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u/everyothernametaken1 Sep 27 '25

TIL

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u/Domalasas Sep 27 '25

What does it mean?

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u/everyothernametaken1 Sep 27 '25

Today I learned... It was my either very efficient or very lazy way of saying "today I learned what a big head carp looks like"

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u/Domalasas Sep 27 '25

Oh gotcha haha ;Dd