Help a fellow fisherman out: Carp!

[lxskllr]

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.

 

[d4a2n0k]

The only way I've ever heard of them being edible was from smoking them.

 

[DrPizza]

My grandparents used to always filet them and use just the top half of the filet away from the "mud line." Tasted okay to me.

 

[ControlD]

I have had several people take carp that I have caught so I have to assume that they must be OK if prepared correctly. People also like to use carp in their turtle traps, so I guess they are not completely worthless.

 

[SagaLore]

Make a dough ball that has a strong odor. Put some garlic powder and parmesan powder in it. Use a 3 pronged hook, weigh it down so it sits on the bottom. It is a lot like catfishing, but you have to be even more patient for them to bite it.

 

[BladeVenom]

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.

 

[Slew Foot]

Carp? more like Crap.

Just toss a live toaster in the pond.

 

[waggy]

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.

 

[ControlD]

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.

Yeah, soda dough balls work pretty well. I also found Big Red + Wheaties works as a good carp bait.

 

[Pocatello]

I've caught carp with nightcrawlers, chicken livers, corn, marshmallow, stinky dough balls. None of them work all the time though.

 

[SearchMaster]

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.

I live on a large lake. About 12 years ago, I was working from home and would go down to the dock every day. There was a family of carp living under my dock, so I would bring them a cup of catfish food (the previous tenant had left a 50# bag in storage) and feed them.

One day I took my 2 year old son down to the dock with a fishing pole. We didn't even put bait on the hook, just dropped it in the empty hook and caught them. My son thought it was awesome (the fish were 8-10#) and the fish didn't know any better, we would just put them back in the water and they would go after the hook again. I continued to feed them through the summer.

A friend of mine worked at a sod farm, and they were having problems with algae clogging up the irrigation pumps in the irrigation ponds. So they bought these special algae eating carp that were very, very expensive. They did such a good job of cleaning every speck of algae from the pond so they had nothing to eat. He said they would flip themselves up out of the water onto the bank, and start grazing on the grass. When they'd get their fill, they'd flip themselves back into the water. I'd love to have seen it.

 

[Clemenza]

I've caught them a lot on livers while fishing for cats and doughballs always seem to work too. I've always thought they will eat about anything as long as its on the bottom and stinks.

 

[Dead3ye]

Heat your oven to 350.

Place the prepared carp on clean pine board.

Place the carp and the board in the oven and bake for 1 hour.

Take the carp and board out of the oven.

Throw the carp in the garbage and eat the board. Season to taste.

 

[SagaLore]

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.

http://www.nps.gov/miss/naturescience/carphist.htm

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.

Apparently, the original farmed carp was a very tasty fish that everyone wanted. It wasn't until it became wild again that it became nasty.

 

[JumBie]

So I went to the pond today prepared. I brought some chairs, lunch and a buddy of mine. We chummed the area with allot of corn then casted our lines out with a hook and a bell weight. It took 2 hours of constant chumming but I finally hooked into one. It fought hard. I was using 4lb test and a light rod, it felt amazing. Reeled it in, it was about 5 lbs. We caught 4 more within the next 2 hours and then we hit a dead period and went home. Overall it was allot of fun, and i plan on using boiles to hopefully catch the bigger ones we see on there.