Over 11 years the Inland Fisheries Service Tasmania has made concerted effort towards controlling and eradicating common carp, Cyprinus carpio, from Lakes Crescent and Sorell. Remarkably, carp have been contained with estimated carp numbers reduced to <10 and <100 in lakes Crescent and Sorell respectively. However removal of last few carp has been a challenge necessitating additional integrated management strategies. During the summers of 2005-2006 and 2006-2007, field trials were conducted using reproductively primed odour donor female fish to attract and trap wild free- ranging carp of both sexes. This was based on premise that fish including cyprinids produce reproductive pheromones that can attract and recognise conspecifics. The ability of the odour donor female carp to attract conspecifics was measured by recording the movement of radio-tagged male carp as well as the number of fish recovered from traps located at vantage points. Trials conducted in 2005-2006 were particularly successful in attracting and trapping from as far as 4 km away. This work demonstrates the feasibility of deploying odour donor carp to assist in trapping and removing wild free-ranging carp under field conditions. However the molecules (pheromones), mechanisms of chemoreception and the influence/interaction of environmental factors remain poorly understood.