Common Carp
Cyprinus carpio
There is no minimum length limit or daily bag limit for common carp.
Identify your catch
Barbels near the mouth help distinguish common carp from native buffalo.
Habitat on Worth
Standing timber, boathouses, docks, piers, rocky shoreline and brush provide habitat.
Fishing approach
Lake guide guidance: TPWD describes bass near rocky banks and boathouses, crappie near reed beds and dock brush, spring white bass upriver, and catfish throughout the reservoir.
Fishing guidance describes documented approaches, not a promise of fish activity today.
Women of childbearing age and children younger than12; four-ounce meal: At most 1 meals per month; 4 oz per meal. Women past childbearing age and males12and older; eight-ounce meal: At most 2 meals per month; 8 oz per meal.
Harvest permission and eating restrictions are separate.
General species guide
An introduced fish that feeds on the bottom in lakes and rivers.
General Common Carp profile →Sources & lake evidence
TPWD lake guide and reviewed fisheries evidence establish the listed species or group. Historical survey records do not establish current abundance.
Lake harvest rules ↗Eating guidance ↗Lake habitat & fishing guide ↗Fisheries survey · species evidence ↗Species identification ↗