I was curious about that myself, no idea. I do believe these damn flying carp help to feed these lunkers, seems like they are all fat as a tick and full when you catch them. We use the nasty suckers for bait btw, cruise around in slow water till we get a bunch that jumped into the boat, filet them out and can them in chunks, with the skin on, not sealed in jars, just put the lid put them and set them in and old fridge and let them rot. cat fish love it.
I've been told that once a blue (& flatheads too) reach 5 lbs in weight that they can grow up to 5 lbs per annum. Assuming a 5 lbs fish is 3 years of age at top growth rates, a blue growing this fast could be as young as 18 years. I imagine that some grow faster while others slower than that 5 lb figure. But this estimate may be within 3 or 4 years of the actual age.
Really great fish, gehajake. Thank you for posting the photo.
Last edited by jpsdad; 02/26/2405:14 AM.
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