Rohu
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Name: Rohu (yissok tet, rahoo carp). |
To fish for our rohu use the same tactics as for Julian's golden prize. We recommend you fish the bottom of the margin shelf and bait up with small pellet or maize feed little and often, float fishing or a light lead is best for these shy feeders its sometimes worth trying a small pop up try moulding some sticky rice around your hooklink then pulling your hair rigged pop-up into the rice ball.This method makes a deadly combination of a pop-up sitting
over a small patch of rice. As with all the non-predatory fish in our
lake, you need to create your own feeding area, and the tighter your feeding
pattern the more fish you will concentrate in one area. This member of
the carp family has a small mouth with sharp cutting edges for feeding
on water plants, but take care when playing these fish though as they have
very soft lips. This carp will also jump when hooked, sometimes
attaining heights of two metres! When targeting these fish you will
also catch Julian's golden prize carp, Siamese carp, plus all our other
carp species, along with the Mekong catfish. A lot of our anglers use
one rod with maize on their baited area, then fish with a fish bait on
the outside edge of the baited area for predators who have come into
the food zone attracted by the small bait fish feeding on the groundbait. The rohu is not as hardy as the other carp species, so please take
extra care when handling them, get your camera ready beforehand, then
snap off a couple of quick shots before placing them back in the
landing net to recover. As with all our fish, use barbless hooks and
only photo in the water.
General facts on rohu:
The rohu is a member of the carp family cyprinidae. They are distributed
from Thailand through Myanmar to India and Pakistan. The rohu looks
similar to a common carp with a scaled body and non-scaled head; the
main difference being their protruding lips. They are a light
brown colour with a pink tinge outlining their scales and fins. As fry
they feed exclusively on zooplankton composed of rotifers and
cladocerans, but as they grow they start to feed on algae then water
plants. They do not develop a taste for maize or other food items till
they reach maturity at two years old. In the wild they spawn in the
shallow margins of flooded rivers, preferring grassland, but the rohu does
not spawn in still water. They are farmed throughout Asia where they are
artificially spawned and stripped of their eggs. They are considered a
delicacy in India, especially their roe, and their white, non-oily flesh is
cooked deep fried in mustard oil. They are also farmed here in Thailand
as a sporting fish, and their popularity comes as a hard fighting fish on
light tackle, which makes spectacular leaps when hooked. The rohu has
been recorded jumping up to three metres.
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