Let me make one brief point on the water quality issue.
One time I was ice fishing with a well known Nebraska fisheries biologist on a five acre pond which was somewhat shallow.
Since there was ice, the water quality was extemely good. I could see all the way to the bottom easily in five feet of water. I was looking down the hole and a dozen or so catfish swam by. I could see 'em clear as day. As they passed I caught one and the others swam on. Well these few fish made the water so turbid during that one pass that the water clarity dropped to a few inches and stayed that way for over an hour.
So my point is, I think several hundred carp in a shallow cove with fine particle clay substrate could cause immediate turbidity and I can imagine that the converse would be true that removing them would allow for increase in water quality shortly thereafter.
Good job, guys.
Holding a redear sunfish is like running with scissors.
