Carp Shooters

[Autumnarcher]

Originally posted by John Nail:
send them to Gitmo. Good enough for teriorists.

I think we should getto shoot them cowards we got caged up in Gitmo with a carp arrow too, and feed them to the carp. Talk about an invasive species! I'd rate them stinkin carp way higher than some flea infested Al Quaida piece of human garbage.

[knd2970]

I have a farmer that lets me throw them in his speader. He mix's them up with the manure. Shoots them in the field's.
Also a great way to obtain hunting rights on a farm.

[kybowman]

Hey Mike,  I sure hope that sinkhole is downwind of the house!!!!  Because I know you are not exagerating the ammount of carp you actually shoot each year. You are a one man invasive species erradicator!!!!!!!!
8^p pee ewwww  haha

[Mike/Columbia Basin]

I would suggest that whatever you do with the carp just make sure that you DO NOT leave them on the bank where shot. That ruins the carp shooting for the next guy. There is a local stream that gets hit pretty heavy here and it stinks bad after few days.

[sweeney3]

Originally posted by John Nail:
send them to Gitmo. Good enough for teriorists.

                      :clapper  

[sweeney3]

And oxnam's and autumarcher's too.  I missed those the first time through!

[kybowman]

Maybe we can bring the Gitmo guys to Mikes sinkhole!!    

[Possum2]

I'm not a animal activis by all means I've taken my share, but why would you shoot something and then just bury. Gar, common carp, bighead, silvers and asian carp are all consumable and very tasty if fixed right. Specially when they are smoked! Gar you can boil it and dip it in butter and garlic and I swear your eating lobster!!!

[Gehrke145]

Talk to local farmers, when I lived in WI we would shoot thousands a year.  You can only get so many under the garden lol.

[LoweBow]

Possom2...like I said...we eat plenty, but there I could feed my county w/ the amount of fish we shoot in a summer.  I will not allow guys to shoot paddlefish if they do not intend to eat them.  Most all have figured out how delicious these are.  We shot 47 bigheads one night on the Ohio river....have shot more on the Tennessee, but of these 47 most were over 40# w/ 28 over 50#.  Yes...over 1 ton of fish.  My boat is a 2070, but won't carry that poundage....nor will my tandem axle trailer w/out taring something up.

[Stone Knife]

I don't eat them myself, but I have given many away to people that do. I use them in the flower garden or for coon bait during trapping season.

[Izzy]

After I slap one of my cousins across his mug with the carp tails I toss them in the weeds on an island and they get eaten by coons, turtles,crows,guls and eagles.If not on the island I just put them back into the river.The slapping part is a custom my 2 cousins and I started a while back.The first man to shoot a carp gets to slap the other 2 fools and keeps doing so until each man gets a fish.If you miss alot you will keep getting carp slapped again and again and again.I hate when Im the fool getting slapped but when Im not I laugh til I cant breathe.  :rolleyes:

[pintail_drake2004]

we dont eat them, but there is a certain "group" of people fishing the area who will buy them everytime. The ones we do keep we cut up into 1" squares and use them for trapping coons. We can get about 150-200 sets out of a decent sized carp.

[Mark Kronyak]

I get them mounted...

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[oxnam]

Wow Mark, I didn't realize that anyone would ever have them mounted.  Looks like some big carp.

[bretto]

Wow Mark, do you know the weight of those fish? Great looking mounts also.

[Mark Kronyak]

The bottom pic on the wall with the rocks was a 59# 12 oz Grass Carp  the only reason i mounted it was because it was a new state record.. I was sure I would never mount another... well the next year I shot a 65# even grassie.  It was lil over 5 pounds bigger than the one I shot the year before... making it a new state record grass carp..

More incredable... a week after I took the second Grass carp I took a Common Carp ( middle pic) that weighed 43# 14 oz. that fish was 1# 13 oz bigger than the previous state record that stood for 21 years... Lucky?... I'll say.

But I promise I'll never get another carp mounted..maybe