{"id":6356,"date":"2011-07-30T04:12:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T03:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=6356"},"modified":"2013-11-19T01:17:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T00:17:42","slug":"do-grass-carp-really-clear-weed-in-a-carp-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/do-grass-carp-really-clear-weed-in-a-carp-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Grass Carp really clear weed in a carp lake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Grassies doing their thing\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026an update!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>In June 2010 we introduced 20 small Grass Carp to Joy Lake, to help combat a growing weed problem.\u00a0One year on and we\u2019re pleased to say the measures have been a great success.<\/p>\n<p>To show the difference they have made take a look at the photos below, showing the Brace swim last year and again this year (trust me, it\u2019s the same swim!)&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There have been numerous sightings of the Grassies themselves, and boy have they grown!!! They\u2019ve obviously been doing some serious munching, as the ones spotted by visiting anglers are now between 4-6lb, not bad considering they were stocked at around 12oz only a year ago!<\/p>\n<p>They should provide some great sport in years to come, especially if they keep on growing at this rate&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Neil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6357\" title=\"Combating weed in a carp lake\" alt=\"Combating weed in a carp lake\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/07\/large_The_Brace_swim_-_summer_2010.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/07\/large_The_Brace_swim_-_summer_2010.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/07\/large_The_Brace_swim_-_summer_2010-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/07\/large_The_Brace_swim_-_summer_2010-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>The Brace Swim in summer 2010 before the Grassies got to work&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6358\" title=\"Combating weed in a carp lake\" alt=\"Combating weed in a carp lake\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/07\/large_The_Brace_swim_-_summer_2011.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/07\/large_The_Brace_swim_-_summer_2011.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/07\/large_The_Brace_swim_-_summer_2011-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/07\/large_The_Brace_swim_-_summer_2011-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>and here it is in summer 2011&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grassies doing their thing\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026an update! In June 2010 we introduced 20 small Grass Carp to Joy Lake, to help combat a growing weed problem.\u00a0One year on and we\u2019re pleased to say the measures have been a great success. To show the difference they have made take a look at the photos below, showing the Brace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[966],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carp-lake-management"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}