I have listed in the table below the species featured on this page. To jump to pictures of a particular species, click on the name.
 

 

Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio)	Asp (Aspius vorax)
Shaboot (Barbus grypus)	Mangar (Barbus esocinus)
Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)	Stinging Catfish (Heteropneustes fossilis)
Wels Catfish (Silurus glanis)	Barbel (Barbus barbus)

This page is a sort of running rogues gallery of fish pictures from Iraq.  I have tried to group them by species when I can.  Enjoy!

Fresh fish - the most recent pictures right off the water.


This is one HUGE mangar, caught by SFC Douglas Anderson. 
It has to stay at the top of the gallery for a while...

   
Brian (left) and Joel (right) show off some nice asp

   
Brian hefts a nice Wels catfish while Joel (not me) shows off a dandy common carp - great fish!!!


Scott once again shows he is deadly on asp

   
Jason with some fish he nailed on his fly rod. Keep it up!

   
I got these pictures of Wels catfish in from SFC James C

   
SPC Kyle with a big mouth carp - first one of those for our gallery, thanks Kyle!


Dennis shows off a fat carp from the canals.

   
Jason shows off a couple of his first Iraq fish - nice going!

   
Christopher caught what appears to be a shaboot down in the International Zone.

   
Here is another big mangar, but I don't know who the angler is.

SFC James C. and SFC D.W. try with a couple of nice asp from Camp Slayer:
   
The lakes on Camp Slayer were always a favorite of mine - looks like they are still top producers.

Asp are biting around the Victory Base Complex
   
This asp fell to a Wooly Bugger                         and               this Al Faw asp fell to a topwater bait.

Another asp that couldn't resist a topwater bait.

       
Chris caught this carp and asp on Camp Slayer - the asp was caught in a sand storm!


   
Jim caught these HUGE mangar over at Lost Lake - they are some great fish!

Jim also caught this big asp and nice shaboot in Lost Lake


Another nice asp, caught by SFC Mike G. in Camp Slayer's lakes March 30th.


MSG Greg shows off a nice asp from Camp Slayer

 
Fishing around the Al Faw Palace paid off with these nice asp for CW04 Scott H.!


And they are hopeful....

First fish - shots of folks with their first fish in Iraq, or on a fly rod, or for some ever!!! 

Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio)

Asp (Aspius vorax)

Here are some of my arm's length photos of asp::

Shaboot (Barbus grypus)

Mangar or Bisz (Barbus esocinus)

Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)

Barbel (Barbus barbus)

Stinging Catfish (Heteropneustes fossilis)