TRI-LAKES AREA — When summer temperatures peak and days become searing and sultry, it's often difficult to catch fish of any sort. Hot water with low oxygen levels often gives bass, crappie, walleyes ...

LAKE WYLIE -- Early next month, 500 sterile Asian grass carp will be dumped into Lake Wylie. Why? Because, for more than a year, Lake Wylie officials have been working to identify and eliminate ...

Our triploid grass carp must be happy. All the rain we had in December made lake levels rise, submerging stretches of grassy shoreline in shallow water. The carp, which eat only plant matter, have ...

A field test that quickly determines whether Asian grass carp, a threat to the Great Lakes, are sterile or can reproduce has been developed by scientists. Ohio and neighboring states prohibit sale of ...

Invasive carp are not yet common so far upriver, and the agencies hope to keep it that way. The floating feeders will dispense food four times a day, then commercial fishers will go out to the feeders ...

Although the exact cause of Candlewood’s aquatic plant shortage has yet to be determined, a recent survey confirmed that grass carp have been hindering the growth of vegetation in the state’s largest ...

New research reveals the progress scientists at The University of Toledo are making in their ongoing efforts to capture and remove invasive grass carp from the Great Lakes. Researchers based at the ...

Lydia Lohrer’s Dec. 18 column, “Searching for truth about Asian Carp in the Great Lakes,” caused needless confusion regarding grass carp research in Lake Erie. While focusing on the Michigan ...