G'day everyone, no photos today but thought I'd share something with you all. It's common knowledge that carp are a tough species but what happened the other day impressed me as to just how tough. We have experienced a bad heat wave which has resulted in the creek water levels dropping down to the point where the carp struggle to move around freely. I went for a late afternoon walk & had failed to see any fish. After walking 2kms I decided I'd had enough so I headed back to the car. Along the way I came across a section of reed beds where a month ago I had shot a close to 3ft carp but lost it at the waters edge. As it got off & swam away it was bleeding heavily & parts of its internals were hanging out & figured it would simply die from its wounds. I saw a big rig that was working the bottom stirring up the mud in that same spot. As I waited for it to surface from a hole of murky deep water I noticed it had a large black/navy blue patch on it & what appeared to be a white lump sticking out of this dark patch. Waiting waiting bang! Right behind the gills & was dead by the time I had it on the bank. As I pulled the arrow out of it I was inspecting it as it was a big healthy fish then worked my way down to the odd looking dark patch on its body then it occurred to me that it was the fish I'd shot & lost a month ago. The dark patch was scare tissue from the exit wound & much to my surprise the white lump was actually one of its internals that hadn't got back into the body cavity but the fish amazingly had recovered & survived. It's no wonder carp are the number 1 fish vermin species in the planet
