Crazy Carp Encountered In Portlandville, NY [Video]
Early Saturday morning, since it was so beautiful out, I decided it was a good morning for kayaking. I made my way to Portlandville and put in there to just paddle around a nice cove up river.
I was expecting a nice, quiet, calm cruise around the cove and what I got was quite the opposite. I was just paddling along and when I rounded a bend in the river that opens up into the cove, I was greeting by large splashes in the water everywhere! What the heck?! I found out what those giant splashes were being caused by...spawning carp! Geez they were big, averaging at what I thought looked like 18 inches! I thought they were going to knock me right out of my kayak, they were jumping so aggressively! I must admit that it rather freaked me out and I quickly sought out calmer waters nearby, at what I considered a "safe" distance.
Below is a video of spawning carp. The amount of carp I saw wasn't as thick as this video depicts, but I can say that there were quite a few fish, though they were spread out in different areas of the cove.