The Truth Behind Spawning Carp - Simon Scott 

This is an old video

Still love it

@@MattConyard And? does it's age invalidate anything covered?. Anyways It's from ~2018/2019, it's not that old.

Well the issue there is that carp quite often spawn beyond the end of the traditional close season, which is why on most carp lakes it was done away with. Many will close the lake when spawning starts for differing periods of time. For our native species which are diurnal(which basically means they react to the length of day to trigger spawning) the closed season covers that almost perfectly, it's only tench that can spawn outside that window.

Plenty of “carp lakes” have roach Rudd break perch pike in them.have done for years,never heard of carp wiping a lake out of smaller fish.it’s normally the owners who take other fish out.

@@lachojski2005 I am only speaking of my personal experiences. My favourite lake used to hold a big head of quality tench, some big bream, so many roach of all sizes, plus crucians to specimen size. About 20 years ago, someone decided to introduce 250 small carp. Since then, the carp have grown to over 30lb, while it is now impossible to catch even a single fish other than carp. My experience lead to my comment, although I know commercials are awash with silvers, my favourite lake is now the domain of carp anglers only. Tight lines.

They’re not an invasive species but equally they could be classed as non-indigenous as they were introduced to the UK several hundred years ago from Eastern Europe. As the previous commenter, I’ve never heard of carp wiping out silver fish,tench or bream but as he said fishery owners often remove them because nobody wants to fish for them. In fact the syndicate where I fish there are shedloads of tench and most are 7lb plus……catches of 20 to 50 tench are not uncommon.

Not really as different spawning times.

No! They're lakes that can afford to really look after the fish.