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No Lifer
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Have you never known anyone from China, Korea or eastern Europe?
Not really. I knew someone that was Burmese, but his family didn't eat carp, or much fish at all from what I remember.
Have you never known anyone from China, Korea or eastern Europe?
The only way I've ever heard of them being edible was from smoking them.
Bread/dough ball or bow fish.
I love catching carp. they are fun fish to catch. i go down to my sisters house (she lives on a man made lake with a damn) and go down to the damn. they are huge!
we use a bread/dough ball with a splash of cola and some stink bait.
they go for it all the time. its cheap and fun.
I think the trick is also to feed them over a period of time in the same spot so they get used to what you're gonna be using as bait. Corn should work well for that.
The crazy thing is they are not a native species. They were specifically imported and bred to be an eating fish, and now no one wants to eat them.
scattered entrepreneurs began to import the prized fish, hoping to provide a familiar, profitable food staple to the rapidly growing nation. Julius A. Poppe was one of the most successful, expanding a stock of five common carp imported from Germany in 1872 into a thriving California farm by 1876.
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While tons of free-swimming carp were being harvested from area waters, they were comparable in taste to neither the selectively bred pool-cultivated carp of Europe nor, it was believed, to many of the native "game" species, and were thus useless as a food source.