Carp! One word makes the fisherman's heart beat in delight, and the soul to tremble! In fact, for the Amateur fishing carp remains coveted, often impossible dream. How many anglers can boast that they experienced the happiness of the tireless struggle with this strong fish, this is a mighty fighter, clad in Golden armour? And anyone who has ever had the good fortune of the fight with the carp, and to this day looking for new meetings with the coveted trophy.
Carp is a large fish of the carp family, actually, this is carp, but only one river or "wild" form. In contrast to the domesticated carp, carp has brushvale, an elongated body, adapted for fast swimming. Scales from the carp are large, the size of a 5-penny coin, Golden brown, back dark olive-gold. In the dorsal fin there is one hard serrated beam that can injure a fisherman. The head of the carp is large, the lobes, the lower mouth adapted for foraging from the bottom, with a strong fleshy lips, on the sides of the mouth two pairs of whiskers, two on each side.
Carp is a domesticated carp, farmed in ponds by man. Carp has many varieties (ramaty, mirror-like, leathery), is very different from carp, above all, that leads a sedentary lifestyle. Carp compared to carp has a more elongated body, a dark bronze color and bright red fins. . Carp lives in a natural environment in rivers and lakes, while the carp in artificial ponds.Carp chooses for its dwelling place deep and quiet, prefers the snag pits with a soft clay bottom. Likes sudden changes in depths, in shallow water to the Bush herbal plants or to the edge of the reeds went out at night and early morning. Summer often rests among the reeds, pondweed and water lilies at a depth of not less than 2 metres. The carp spawning occurs when water temperature rises to 18 degrees. For spawning carp come to the spills, spawn eggs on last year's vegetation, flooded grassy meadows. First spawn of small individuals, then the middle and only in last turn – the largest. Spawning pack, it turns into a very spectacular merrymaking when the water is literally boiling from the fish bodies,Feed the carp are young shoots of reeds and other vegetation, eggs, spawning fish, larvae of aquatic insects, molluscs, worms, crabs molting, the fry of other fish. Carp is growing rapidly, this is due to its omnivorous and gluttony. Ichthyologists believe that the carp can grow to an impressive size – up to 40 kg and above. But, it is clear that such a giant fish on a rod would be a big success.