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Author Topic: what do you do with carp?  (Read 946 times)

Offline Stump73

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what do you do with carp?
« on: August 31, 2014, 03:18:00 PM »
Ive been wanting to try bowfishing, but not sure on what to do with the fish you kill? Never ate it so dont if I would like it. I dont want it to go waste because I was raised dont kill what your not gonna eat. If I had a garden I would bury it for fertilizer. I hear gar is pretty tasty. Just wondering what you do with your carp? Do you eat it? Do you bury it? Do you donate it? Do you leave it to feed other critters? I guess it would be good for coyote bait. Just wanting some ideas.
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Offline Caboo

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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2014, 03:22:00 PM »
Ask a farmer if he would like some free fertilizer.

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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2014, 03:30:00 PM »
When my wife was young, they didn't have much, so they made fried carp balls, like you would make salmon croquettes.  Of course, they ate coots too, so they must have been pretty hard up.  I would imagine the main problem with carp would be cleaning them, more than the taste. Why don't you experiment and let us know what you come up with?  Maybe fried carp balls will be the next big thing
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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2014, 04:00:00 PM »
There's a woman who lives close by where I do most of my bowfishing. She smokes them and eats em...says it's delecious. I haven't tried it though. If I kill a decent mess a keep them on ice an give em to her. If I just kill a couple I throw em out behind the house for the coons.

I don't leave them laying around my fishing holes. I hate it when other people do and I have to be around the stinking carcasses.

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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2014, 04:26:00 PM »
My dad said he tried smoked carp years ago in Chicago and it was surprisingly good. Give it a whirl and let us know.
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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2014, 04:44:00 PM »
Coon bait for trapping season.
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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2014, 04:46:00 PM »
Fertilizer....
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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2014, 04:48:00 PM »
Ditto on the fertilizer.
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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2014, 05:01:00 PM »
1: plant them and see if they grow

2: trap bait

3: slit their air bladder and sink them so the turtles have something to eat.

I used to have a lady down the road that loved for me to bring her some. She's in a nursing home now so that option is out.

I've eaten it twice in my life. fixed once by the woman down the road and it was as good as any fish I'd eaten. Second time by someone who had no clue how to fix it and it was the worst fish I had eaten!!

Lots of choices as to what to do with Carp. We had some local Bowfishing tournaments and they put a add on Craigslist. I saw over a 1000 lbs of fish hauled away on more than one occasion by very happy people.

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Offline Archie

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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2014, 05:13:00 PM »
Sell them to McDonald's.  I believe that they use them by the semi-trailer load, for their McCarp, er, Filet-o-fish sandwiches.  

I used to love those sandwiches, still eat them sometimes, rarely.  But when I read that they were made of carp, I curtailed my consumption of them.  I remember watching a bunch of teens hocking loogies and spitting in a pond, and watching the carp fight to eat it.  Kinda turned me off of them.
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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2014, 05:18:00 PM »
Gar is some fine eating!
Buffalo is some good eating!
Ordinary carp is ok for eating, smoked and canned is really good. People are lazy and just don't want to work at it and pick at the bones.

Asian carp, silvers and bigheads are good to eat, mostly clean white meat but they do have some large extra bones too. This is a silver carp

 

All carp make excellent catfish cut bait!!! Google it tons of videos on YouTube, We have been using carp for fish bait since I was in high school but its really catching on now. The Asian carp are our favorite because of the small scales white meat the cats and stripers/wipers really like them. Couple blues caught on carp!

 

 

We catch a lot of wipers on carp too!

 

 

Just fillet your carp and leave the skin on it, if its large carp pop the large scales off leave the rest alone. The skin is what makes it so good at holding on the hook, cut up in chunks use it on your pole or hang it on your trotlines cats love it. The fresher the better but we have used frozen many, many times and still done just as good the meat is softer is all.

It is sure a lot better then throwing them in a ditch and wasting them or if you know any trappers like myself we can use them on are traplines too. If you think it don't work here's a couple nice blue cats caught around here this year at catfish tournaments on the river I fish that were caught on Asian carp and released live to be caught again. Maybe!   :D  

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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2014, 05:36:00 PM »
Use carp for catfish bait or trapping bait. Also, Asian people tend to know how to prepare carp to eat, since that's where carp come from, so you might try your local Chinese or Korean restaurant to see if they want them. Just be sure to keep a cooler of ice in your vehicle or boat to keep'em fresh.

Carp are an invasive species that compete with our native fish species for food, nesting sites, space, etc., so I don't have a problem whatsoever in donating them to native turtles, crawfish, catfish, and other scavengers to feed on.

If people weren't willing to kill carp because they don't eat them, then carp would definitely be an under-harvested, invasive fish species.
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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2014, 06:00:00 PM »
I haven't eaten at McDonalds in 20 years. After hearing this I hope it will be another 20.

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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2014, 07:17:00 PM »
Carp is decent cleaned and fried whole.  Then just pick out the bones.  Tastes a lot like Mullet.  Good for smoking too.  Go for the gar too, take out the backstraps.  You'll need a sharp knife and a good pair of tin snips.
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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #14 on: August 31, 2014, 07:32:00 PM »
Carp don't taste so bad.  My father in Law used to eat it all the time, which mean we did too when we visited.  But I live in WI and there are SO many other fish that taste a bunch better.

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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #15 on: August 31, 2014, 07:58:00 PM »
Glad to hear there are people who recognize that these fish have some potential. I think most people hear from other people that heard from some other people, that carp isn't edible. Just isn't true.

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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #16 on: August 31, 2014, 08:10:00 PM »
Considering what stuff flows in our rivers around here, I get a gag reflex even eating walleyes out of them.  We have been hit by the jumping carp and everyone is saying they are good to eat.  I do not think the entire area population could eat enough of them to put a dent in their numbers. A good way to shoot them is to drive your jon boat up against a bridge abutment, rev up the prop and shoot them before they get a chance to jump in your boat. Never shoot a jumping carp that is already in your boat, safety first.

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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #17 on: August 31, 2014, 08:48:00 PM »
I have tried carp before. first few times I didn't know what I was doing and left the Bi lateral line in. They were terrible.

Growing up, I used to Haul them into the Asian Food stores. The Hmong people loved them. I heard they would buy them but we just gave them away.

I wouldn't consider eating any fish out of the water here because of the pollutants. I have buried them in the garden and baited turtles.

I also used to take them to a Mink Farm. The farmer fed the mink dead things, he said the carp were good for the coats.

I wish the water was cleaner, I would love to try smoking them.
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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #18 on: August 31, 2014, 09:17:00 PM »
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Re: what do you do with carp?
« Reply #19 on: August 31, 2014, 09:18:00 PM »
Back when I shot a lot of carp I did some research of what to do with the carp. Bottom line is they are bottom feeders and a non native destructive fish. They atleast in my local waters are FULL of mercury. I dang sure didn't eat them so I use to bury them in my garden till I realized I was just burying mercury and all the other pollutants in my garden. Just food for thought.

Even game fish here have enough mercury in them you are advised to eat only so much a month and these are not bottom feeders. And the larger the fish the more the pollutants. So when you eat one eat a small one. So I have no problem shooting, cutting the air sac and letting them go back for turtle, coon food etc. You are doing a favor to the native fish in your area to keep the carp thinned down.
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