Year-Long Utah Lake Carp Hunt

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I too am skeptical about the potential for carp numbers to be kept lower strictly through angler onslaught. Most other species in Utah Lake lay eggs in the hundreds...or maybe thousands.  But each carp female dumps from several hundred thousand to over a million eggs per spawn.  Multiply that times the vast number of spawning female carp in Utah Lake each year and it is easy to see why carp populations grow so quickly.  Here is a picture of a female carp of only about 3# in weight...and the visibly huge number of eggs she didn't get to spawn.  Bigger carp have even more eggs.