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Oh, that's tolstolobik, isn't it? It's a pretty common fish here. Like all carps, it has lots of bones and smells faintly of muck, but you can make gefilte fish or just keep only the largest specimens, like 7lb+.
You can fish from the bank, you just need a rocky shore, this fish doesn't like grass. Do not fish during algal blooms, the fish will not be hungry enough. Midnight is the best time. We use "technoplankton" to catch it, but all English-language links are machine translations of Russian sources. It's a dense block of finely ground bait that slowly dissolves in the water, forming a cloud of food around the hooks. You need a tackle that looks like this: https://www.amazon.com/Fishing-Feeder-Inline-Coarse-Terminal/dp/B09244F54V
They are filter feeders, so all other bait or tackle will be much less effective.
Yes, I think it is that fish. Asian carp or silver carp is what it's called here. The Illinois River is absolutely full of them and the authorities have been troubled by this fact for years. That's great advice on how to catch them, makes perfect sense. That's probably going to end up a lot cheaper than a kayak.
I've certainly never heard of "technoplankton" and none of the fishing threads I looked at on reddit seemed to have any inkling of anything like "technoplankton". Perhaps Americans don't catch this fish much and don't know how to catch them? Do you make technoplankton yourself or do you buy it? What do Russians think of the fish? The people here (rural Midwest) think it's a trash fish. Man, glad I made the original post, how fascinating.
YouTube autogenerated subtitles are fine if you want to watch some actual fishing guides. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qe69lsqX3u0 or just paste "ловля толстолобика" into the search box.
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It's native in the Far East, but it's been introduced across the whole former USSR. It's considered better than most other forms of carp because it grows big enough there's enough meat between the bones.
You can buy technoplankton, but some fishermen make it themselves, especially when they are short on money. For some of them fishing is not a hobby, but a source of protein. It's basically a mixture of various flour, some sort of binder (like sugar or powdered milk) and optionally a source of strong delicious smell (I've seen ready-made ones that smell like strawberry, honey, baked milk, aniseed, garlic and... fleas). You mix all this into a barely wet dough and press into a dense block (about 2 ounces) that fits onto the tackle (or inside it, if it has a cage like the one from Amazon). It slowly dissolves in the water and forms a tasty cloud that the silver carp will try to slurp.
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