Anyone familiar with Heards Pond in Wayland?

[FishermanTim]

I have been kayak fishing there since last summer, and started again this month an I have a question for any regulars to that pond.
I noticed that the back part of the pond, where it connects with the Sudbury River, is growing back and filling in again. Before this, I was fishing there last week and had a couple of good fish hit my rubber shad and frog lures. I also noticed quite a few (dozens) of carp rooting around the same area.
My question is this: Are the carp a regular part of this pond, or were they recent immigrants from the Sudbury as a reslut of the spring floods? I ask because they are so numerous in this back water section of Heards Pond that they are interferring with my chances to attract bass or pikerel to my lure presentations.
Picture paddling up to a nice quite, flat piece of water only to have a half dozen carp freak out and rocket away like a torpedo! It churns up the water and spooks any other fish that might have been in the area.

If the carp are not a normal part of this waterway, and decide not to leave, then this pond may be doomed. The carp will do a number on the pond bottom, and may interfer with regular angling habitat.