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
Just missed the state record by 4lbs!
Tracy