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[Long_Cast]

As you may have heard for the longest time, big carp at Deer Lake eat baby ducklings, but I never managed to witness it myself.

Here's proof that carp does eat baby ducklings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9kgauLeXSE&feature=related

[NiceFish]

thats terrible we need to kill every single carp

[Zanna]

Next time I fish carps I'll use a rubber ducky as bait

[1son]

Next time I fish carps I'll use a rubber ducky as bait

LOL

[buzzbomb]

I've seen pike do it but not carp.  It's surprising to me that I haven't seen that vid before since it's been up a few years.  There was a myth/story about some guys using baby chicks from the hatchery for pike, but that's just so rude it's hard to believe.

[Every Day]

New idea for a carp fly 

[cutthroat22]

I was thinking a small rubber ducky on a spin caster.

On a side note I've seen small and large fish alike absolutely hammer those red and white cheap plastic bobbers.

[bunnta]

Next time I fish carps I'll use a rubber ducky as bait

lol................ lots of hungry carp.

[milo]

While the video leaves little doubt of what transpired in that pond, a carp swallowing a baby duck is an aberration, not a common feeding pattern. If it were, hardly any ducklings would survive a swim in a pond full of hungry carp.

My take on what happened is that all of them (car and ducks) were in a feeding frenzy (perhaps those who were filming had previously tossed food in the pond). I would bet dollars to doughnuts that the carp inhaled the little yellow duckling mistaking it for a large piece of bread bobbing on the surface or something along those lines. The little duckling was doomed due to its colour and fluffiness.

[buzzbomb]

I saw a film once of a largemouth bass coming straight out of the water and grabbing a blackbird off a cattail, and a lot of the old bass poppers were painted to look like red winged or yellow winged or headed blackbirds.  That seems more of a stealthy, targeted attack than a feeding frenzy though.  I got real excited when I found trout would come right out of the water too.  About 30 years ago a friend and I were fishing in a stocked dugout on his sister's farm, and the wind was blowing grasshoppers off the weeds into the water and the fish were smashing them.  I tied on a real dustmop of a fly so they couldn't miss it and when I cast it out, as it came down a trout jumped about a foot into the air and grabbed it before it could land. Do you guys in BC get that often or is it a little special?