Exposing Quebec's Underwater Threat | Grass Carp Expedition Unveiled

In the heart of the picturesque province of Quebec lies a mystery lurking beneath the tranquil waters. A fish that has confounded scientists and sent shockwaves across social media platforms, igniting a frenzy of discussion and speculation amongst the public. Having heard stories of a specie of fish that could destroy entire ecosystems, I would have never imagined coming face to face with this plant devouring titan. This marks the unveiling of a captivating tale, one that revolves around the enigmatic presence of the grass carp. An invasive specie that has infiltrated Quebec’s pristine waters, previously shrouded in mystery but now officially documented, heralding the dawn of a new era in Quebec’s aquatic ecosystem."
Join us in this race against time, where every discovery brings us one step closer to unlocking the secrets of the elusive Grass Carp.
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[@steb3536]

awesome colab ,im proud

[@gnome8873]

Extremely high production quality. Excellent work to the film crew

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Haha I love that! Thank you so much. The film crew consisted of one guy 😆 Im very pleased that I gave off the effect of having a crew! 🙏🏼

[@carbondioxide6395]

Crazy too think about how these fish could ruin Quebec's water if they were too breed.

[@olicorrivo3289]

Gouvernement du Québec fait une bonne chose, ça mérite un like. Vraiment bon vidéo aussi. 👍

[@c-rodfishingmontreal7025]

The government should put a cash bounty on these guys or theyll become 50% of the biomass in the St Lawrence and great lakes in a couple decades. Really great video guys thanks for raising awareness.

[@seanlandsman7516]

This is a great story of collaboration and shared values. Congrats to Darian and Zach for their willingness to help the QC fisheries folks (I too can never remember their agency’s acronym ha!) but also a MAJOR kudos to the QC fisheries folks’ willingness to work with local anglers. You could hear genuine gratitude from them toward Darian. Congrats to all!

[@savagefishing8133]

Thanks a lot, Sean! Your kind words mean a lot to me!

[@fishonlinecanada]

Awesome job creating this video! It is so important to get more information about where these fish might be reproducing and the steps we have to take to stop this invasive species. It was such a useful idea to use a drone to discover them. Great job! Please keep us updated.

[@JohnViinalass-lc1ow]

toute un projet...bravos et bravas...des resultats de haute valeur!...merci a vous tous.

[@ericgather2435]

Vraiment bon !! Merci pour les bon vidéos !

[@ernandgignac]

I grew up in Vaudreuil, I instantly recognized the concrete dock in the beginning of the video. Great job guys, love these videos !

[@benoitdemers1900]

Malade, belle job! Super vidéo.

[@jeanvaljean1475]

Greetings from Romania ! For those of you who want to fish them with a rod, they are crazy after fermented corn! You can find plenty different recipes about how to ferment the corn on you tube and how to use it afterwards.

[@brainfreeze1925]

Wow, the quality of this video is documentary standards...very professional. A great story is best told in this manner. Congrats man!

[@ttvitskiitana]

this made me so emotional seeing how excited everyone got 💀 it’s so awesome. i visit my boyfriend in Fort Chambly and i’m absolutely obsessed with seeing the fish in the rivers whenever it’s calm during the weekdays because they are huge sometimes. i can’t wait to go fishing here for the first time

[@savagefishing8133]

You know who to contact if ever you need a guide! 😉 good luck on the water!

[@carolann5338]

I can t get over the size of these fish in Lake of Two Mountains....... BRAVO to the crew that did all this amazing work.....!!!!

[@m.plancton3769]

How is this channel don’t have more followers, these videos are amazing

[@gofio123456]

Awesome video man, i'm glad something is being done to protect our waters from these invasive fish. Thanks for raising awareness also !

[@Faz99Master]

Bravo! Incredibly informative and extremely well made!

[@aR0ttenBANANA]

I defo did not expect to see a gov. collab on KZbin. Great work

[@joseenoel8093]

Some people are not part of the problem ❤! Phew!

[@RaymondVsBass]

Incroyable cette vidéo les gars!

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Merci mon beau 🫶🏼🙏🏼

[@JFHoupert]

Great video, if you get any news regarding the fish, whether or not they were sterile or not and where they originated from that would be a great update! Thank you both for all the hard work

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Thanks JF! We'll make a follow up once we get more info!

[@justlp3266]

Love this video❤️ This fish is one of a kind I dream about catching one!

[@gardenspicemb8731]

wow,first video i see of yours,in my backyard...thank you thank you thank you for your effort to make this known and working with the authorities to help them see the problem.Merci! new subscriber here

[@ericpaquette5975]

Wow, crazy to see this. Thanks for sharing. I had a feeling carp species (both evasive and natural) have been spreading north and clearly that is the case

[@applejack120]

Just Brilliant!

[@bayouboy1399]

that was absolutly incredible...well done you guys are rockstars

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Thanks man 😎

[@joseenoel8093]

Hi from Pte-Claire, I fished there with my dad and bro yrs back, you're awesome, I'm a chick forest technician, worked up in LaTuque and for the cities, great work you're a natural!

[@olocippicolo]

Jsais pas pourquoi votre vidéo m'a été recommandée, je ne regarde pas ben ben des vidéos de pêche ahah Très informative la vidéo et superbe production! Merci de protéger nos écosystèmes ^^

[@savagefishing8133]

Merci pour les gentils mots! Nous sommes très content que notre vidéo t'as trouvé!

[@isaackizzz5254]

the filming needs to get a shout out, super well done production on that video .

[@savagefishing8133]

Zach is the goat!

[@adamzguy]

Excellent video, so happy I got to see this. What a hero! Love the whole story and good on you for your excellent work. This is a serious and threatening issue and education is a huge part of it. Keep up the great work

[@savagefishing8133]

Thank you very much for the kind words!!

[@CanadianSledDog]

A fascinating story and a chilling discovery! Great work and also great documentary.

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Thank you so much! 🙏🏼

[@francisouellette7856]

Thanks Fishing OD for the discovery and a fish that i never saw before! Merci FOD pour la video, premiere fois que je vois ce que cet espece peut engendrer comme dégâts! Keep on

[@Balgus_]

well done boys. Great vid and super interesting story to tell. Looking forward to finding out where they are from

[@HenriVineFishing]

Great work to the whole team. This was an amazing video!

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Thanks a ton!

[@simonbuszard]

I have seen these fish in the lachine canal. Monsters

[@lauraragusa4173]

Amazing!! Truly captivating✨ Well done👌🏻

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Thanks mama 💕

[@rb5337]

I fished for huge carp in a weir beside the Welland Canal as a kid. Every day they would make their way up to the weir bridge to feed. You could easily see them. Doughballs with worms worked best. I would trade the fish for pizza and DQ treats with the Americans who came to fish in Port Colborne. You needed 20lb test to land them, the biggest I caught was 4ft. I had one fishing pole ripped out of my hands when a Sturgeon took the bait. Excellent video.

[@mayhem035]

That's super cool, man! Le fait qu'ils ton contacté et ton impliqué dans l'operation est veaiment cool! Congrats ! That's a super nice vidéo. Thank you for helping our fishery ! I live in the revoere des milles iles area in laval. I am 50 now. When i was a kid , leaving the shore, you had to row the boat at least 20 to 25 feet to get across the lily pads and water grass. Now, there's no vegetation around the shore of the intier laval island! Dont know if it has something to do with those carps.. It's really hard to find bass when there's no vegetation !🤷‍♂️✌️👍👌♥️🐟🎣

[@richarddickson7243]

Good man! Proud of you brother... Et gros merci a Quebec avec le rapid response, Super. Je me sous... (Easter egg).. I'm just down stream, S.s.mtl... I'm going fishing..

[@mr.send_it]

Excellent episode. Your DOP is insane (because yeah, at this level he's more like a DOP than a simple Cameraman).. His images and colors are perfect !!! Keep up the good work & thanks for this episode🙏

[@savagefishing8133]

Zach is the best in the game! Glad you enjoyed, hours of work were put into this film!

[@jean-philippebouchard1195]

Superbe, qualité d'un documentaire professionnel ! Bravo !!!

[@jessyreptiles4547]

19:29 your quebecer language came out hahah. Amazing story and collaboration, first time I see your channel. Subscribed now!!

[@savagefishing8133]

Sometimes I gotta bust out the "québécois" to communicate to the team! 😂 thanks for the feedback! Appreciate it!

[@T-SizzleLikeBacon]

Awesome video bro. Love local content. Would be cool to see a video on the gobys

[@Eveseptir]

Nice production! I may have seen one in the Chambly canals. It was so big, dark and gnarly I thought it was a snapping turtle at first. Confirmed it was giant carp and watched as it just lumbered around the surface.

[@babajaiy8246]

Didn't watch the whole video - how good or not are they for eating?; Compared to Bass, Walleye, etc.

[@AlexLégaré-e6e]

Awesome video !!! Keep it going

[@vincefreeride]

Merci pour ta contribution face a une espece invasive. Awesome video

[@WillTheFrozen]

Incroyable! MERCI BEAUCOUP

[@therealjplavoie]

i live 1 hour away from Vaudreuil. This is very interesting. excellent production as well!

[@dericklachance9756]

Crazy to think there’s grass carp in Quebec what a massive fish to! Good job this was an awesome video. 😊

[@pedrole7036]

Montreal Support !!

[@guy-michellebel8740]

Great lil documentary, your french and English both sound very good 👍😊

[@savagefishing8133]

Thank you Hahaha. English is definitely more comfortable!

[@thomaspigeon9678]

keep up the good work brother ! Amazing video

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Thanks, will do, means a lot!

[@ianpatterson3061]

Conservation efforts are being made like this, Michigan on the other hand allows speargun harvesting of game fish in the Great Lakes.. not all conservation is equal . Thanks for the hard work on our ecosystem guys!

[@makwafishing]

What an awesome footage! Good job guys!

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Thanks for watching!

[@andrelabonte2294]

Good job. Merci☮️🇨🇦

[@calebchilds472]

Amazing video I love learning about the province I live in!

[@moon_boon]

Vraiment cool

[@harvey2390]

Incredible documentary! GJ y’all!

[@mlevesque33]

Nice job guys. I'm as happy as you for catching them.

[@allantulli5546]

Great Video, loved it. The color of the fish looks like one of the triploid "golden" grass carp they used to sell at aqua Tropical and other stores ( I had one in my koi pond that i euthanized when it got too big). The disconcerting thing is there were more than one of them , can't wait to hear scientific results. Invasive species are a problem - I'm pretty sure I've seen at least one Wels catfish in the Lac St. louis area of the St. Lawrence river. It was way too big to be one of the local species and it looked like what i saw on the TV show river monsters.

[@savagefishing8133]

Very interesting observation. Thanks for your input! Luckily here it gets cold enough to get rid of most invasive species that get dumped but of course some survive.

[@giuseppepandolfo4815]

Nice wheel buddy

[@savagefishing8133]

Thanks!!

[@Rickristian]

Congrats for this great video. Very good.

[@savagefishing8133]

An experience that I'll never forget!!

[@david8691]

In retrospect, I think I have seen one of these in the Lachine Canal. I fish there a lot and there was one carp that I saw several times that was larger than the other carp, darker, and had that upside down face. This was in 2021 or 2022 but I haven't seen one since then.

[@kurtisrogerson]

Where was this exactly?

[@savagefishing8133]

Filmed in Vaudreuil, Quebec

[@charliefishin]

Hey Zach! I’m looking for a new braid reel (thick cover jigs,froggin,toowater) reel and I’m not sure which one to get. Can you please send me some examples! Thanks

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Hey! It all depends on your budget… my favourite is absolutely the Shimano Bantam 150mgl. For a cheaper alternative either the curado 150mgl or the tranx 150

[@charliefishin]

@@FishingOD_OFFICIAL thanks Zach! I’m probably gonna get a Curado mgl!

[@aranykert]

If they grew so big, then, they are in the local waters for very long time. The grass carp present will suppose that the Big Head = Asian Silver Grass Carp is also in the Ontario-Quebec water system. It will be hard to get rid of them! They infested the European and North American waters in a few decades. The only food competition is for Sucker and Carp. Asian Carps are very delicious fish, with white flaky meat!

[@Donreptiles514]

I live in Quebec (eastern townships ) and ive seen one where i live. Can they hybridize with other carps?

[@savagefishing8133]

I doubt it. I've never heard of that but I'm not 100% sure, you'd have to research it.

[@sylvaingroulx4407]

Très beau vidéo très bien film le sons est parfait merci pour ce vidéo 🤠

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Merci Sylvain!

[@TheTankss]

Incredible video

[@upatthefarm6888]

Great job by all, thank you!

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@easternkayakangling7972]

Amazing work!

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Thanks a lot!

[@NOVAsteamed]

Thank you for helping preserve the great fishing in Québec

[@jasonbruno3483]

Great work guys!!! Wow! 😮

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Thank you!! 😁 Lots of work went into this one!

[@jordan390a]

I would RF tag a few and observe where they go and how they get there...I think they are still used in the NE U.S. to control plants in ponds and smaller bodies of water...Are they coming up the Richelieu River, or from the Lake of Two Mountains direction...?

[@savagefishing8133]

They are climbing lake of two mountains so they'd be coming from the st lawrence. Up or down, who knows.

[@simondepatie6963]

Nice job!! Where did you guys catch these?

[@savagefishing8133]

Lake of Two Mountains

[@Djieff]

Super documentaire! Est-ce que cette variété de carpe est comestible?

[@savagefishing8133]

Je sais pas s'ils sont bon mais oui!

[@SwingScott]

We know they are here in Ontario waters as well; only a matter of time until they are everywhere.

[@Ben-by1hp]

Great job guys ! 💪

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Thank you 🙌

[@Ben-by1hp]

@@FishingOD_OFFICIAL Great filming and super editing !

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

That means a lot!

[@pi286]

Just saw 4 MASSIVE 20-50 lb Asain carp together in Georgian Bay at 2am while out on my paddleboard.. 5 years ago, there were tons of pike, gar, bass and dogfish... This year I only saw carps, and 1 small musky and dogfish in 3 days of scouting the shore (I caught the musky with a net lol) I had one of the massive carps in my net but it escaped before I could bring the net up.

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

You sure it was asian carp?

[@pi286]

@@FishingOD_OFFICIAL Ive never seen them before, they were Gray, huge and had lots of fins. What stood out to me the most was the fins on their sides.

[@ale050505]

ya un barnak de couper 19:28 xD Belle job !

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cs9436]

Congrats and wonderfully done! Would love to know the exact spot so we can fish!

[@cs9436]

There have also been sightings of grass carp in the Chambly basin.

[@savagefishing8133]

I've seen them in multiple bays on Lake of two mountains.

[@seannnfranco]

dope vid zach and darian !!!!

[@savagefishing8133]

Thanks boss ❤

[@matthewturcotte3847]

Hey there! I have been bowfishing all that area for the last 6-7 years and now that their presence is confirmed I can say that I am 100% sure I have shot a bunch of them. I knew they were found in Chambly's bassin but didnt really thinking they would be in Vaudreuil at all. The first carp that caught my eye was propably summer 2019. At first I thought it was just a really big carp...

[@savagefishing8133]

You have pictures? You should be submitting them to the government.

[@hannaheric634]

Holy moly, I didn't expect the fish to be so big

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Massive!

[@philippeautodidacte]

Thank you quebec for being serious with grass carp i dont want them in our rivers 😢 i like our butiful rivers

[@viktor34567]

great vid. keep them out of our waters.

[@jaxsfiset6922]

Quality video👍

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Glad you think so!

[@1313144]

Amazing !

[@patrikritter198]

In which water you can catch these monsters back in my home country i was catching tham and it is fun fight but never got that big one i can help to get rid of few of tham if i know where to catch tham

[@savagefishing8133]

These ones are lake of two mountains

[@krazymarmot]

on peut avoir la suite ???

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Éventuellement c'est certain! Nous avons pas de nouvelles encore.

[@guillaumefontaine2023]

Très bonne vidéo 🎥

[@ced-demers]

qualité de fou !

[@sylvainthompson1264]

Si vous voulez attraper des carpes c'est à baie du febvre centre du Québec chaque année des milliers de carpes viennent freiller dans les prairies mais depuis l'installation de digues par canard illimité ce n'est plus pareils

[@xxlittledanielleexx]

Wooow who knew! Nice find 🤞

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Thank you Dani 🥹

[@CRos-y9t]

Wtg awesome job ev1!!!

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@testimonium6596]

The main question remains how can we intervene in order to forbid this invasion ???

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Thats for the government to decide! Still awaiting updates!

[@robertbenard8634]

What a moment boys !,

[@FishingOD_OFFICIAL]

Once in a lifetime!

[@JustinSaladinoBand]

Unreal