What do you do with the carp?

[J. Cook]

All the threads on bowfishing really have me wanting to try it.  One question -- What's everybody do with the carp?

[centaur]

Coyotes gotta eat too!

[Dean Lintz]

They make good fertilizer for flowers or bushes.

[Bowferd]

When I was a youngster my Dad had an old friend that pickled'em.
Just like pickled Herring. They ate them on crackers or Pumpernicle Rye.

[joe ashton]

Pickled carp      Um,  I like the coyote idea...

[EricW]

There's a place in Oamaha, Ne that is famous for their pickled carp.

[McDave]

Makes me want to run right up there to Omaha, Ne and get me some pickled carp.

[ChuckC]

Carp is edible.  Not that bad actually.  Problem is, Wisconsin has a bunch of better tasting fish swimming around.
ChuckC

[Jeff Strubberg]

Eat 'em.  Anything over four or five pounds makes fine fillets.  The smaller ones we pick and make salmon patties.

[Shedrock]

Pickled carp is good. Canned carp is ok. Fried carp is ok.

Joe Tess, I believe, is the place in Omaha that is famous for carp.

[swampbuck]

Catch and release LOL I've burried them in my garden and how bought sending them to the white house LOL no don't do that but it would be funny

[Ragnarok Forge]

Find some local Russian immigrants or Chinese immigrants and they will take every one you shoot.  I call the ones here locally and they meet me at the ramp.  I have had up to 45 carp emptied out of my boat in less than 5 minutes.

Check your postings for hazardous chemicals in fish tissues before eating Carp.  Locally they carry PCB's and other places, Mercury, etc....  Some are safe, some are not.

[Butch Speer]

I've had smoked carp. Was pretty tasty.

[rainman]

Use the skin for bow backing if it is grass carp.
I just finished a bow with Grass carp skin that is in the bowyers bench undere horn belly sinew backed holmgard.

[elknutz]

One thing I'm certain of, they do not make salmon patties. Maybe in MO but not in the rest of the world.

[Stone Knife]

I give them to anyone that wants to eat them, then they make good trapping bait. The rest go into the manure pile for food plots or gardens.

[twitchstick]

They make great stink bait and bait for bear. I did eat carp at a chiness restaurant once I just had to know,it wasn't bad. Carp are an invasive species that can kill off a good fishery quick so I don't mind killing carp and throwing them on the bank. Check out on the bowyers bench Rainmans horn belly Holmgard backed with sinew and carp skins over it,now thats cool!

[bofish-IL]

I can tell you one thing not to do with them. Friend and I were shooting some fish and stopped at a Fish Market. They had carp jerky. Friend bought some to try.

I use to commercial fish some with nets and once in a while a carp would get wedged up under the boat seat. The jerky tasted like one of these carp that had been under the seat for a few days in the sun.  

Bad thing was we both kept belching all day long and would have the taste all over again. He took it home and tried to give it to his dog. The dog would not touch it.

   

[James on laptop]

I practice catch and release just like the bass fisherman do.Got some huge turtles around where I bowfish.