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MyFishFinder By Species => Carp => Topic started by: reelcharacter on Mar 08, 2004, 11:00 AM
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After catching/arrowing the Carp, what if any, are the uses you have for the fish?
Catch and release is an obvious finish to a good tight line fight.
Garden fertillizer (lots of it) comes to mind.
Anyone actually find them good eating in the early Spring? How late in the season before you want to keep them off the dinner plate?
Curious minds ??? ??? ???
-Reelcharacter
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I have nothing against those who bow hunt carp. It's legal and their choice.
Ol Liver Lips gets a 2nd chance with me....I put them back. It's the wonderful thing about fishing..you CAN put them back.
With the health advisories on carp, I wouldn't eat them although many countries consider them a delicacy.
RG
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They make great fertilizer for Tomato plants.You have to bury them deep or cats and skunks will dig them up.As far as eating them, I gave some carp to a friend years ago, and she smoked them.She gave me a plateful, and it was actually pretty tasty.I catch and release them when fishing with rod and reel, but I think you have to "thin the herd" and target them with the bow when they spawn.They lay millions of eggs and most of them hatch.Its about the only time you can sneak up on them, unless you're in a canoe, because they are careless when they are in love, and let their guard down.
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Suskymusky,
Do they spawn as early as Suckers, mid April or so?
-Reelcharacter
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I find the spawn in So. NY is later than that. Mid May usually.
I used to give them to my Grandmother years ago. She would make soup out of them. Head and all lol. I've tried smoking them, but they're too hard to light. JK, not bad when smoked either.
These fish are from relatively clean water though. NYC reservoir system generally. I wouldn't keep any from the Hudson or local park ponds and such. They tend to tolerate really filthy water.
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Nope, they spawn a little later when the water warms up a bit.The middle of May seems to be the time around here.The best time of day for me is 10 or 11 o'clock in the morning,just before the sun is overhead.When I see them splashing around, I swap my rod for my compound bow and ruin their day.I only get 2 or 3 shots before I spook them.
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Recipe for Carp
- Clean carp, open flat and peg to a suitably sized pine board.
- Brush generously with butter or oil or alternately drizzle with lemon or lime juice.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper, chili pepper or your favorite spice blend (Cajun, Old Bay etc).
- Bake in a preheated oven at 375ºF until flesh browns lightly and begins to flake easily from bones.
- Once thoroughly baked but not over done, remove from oven and separate from board.
- Set the table and pour a favorite beer or befitting wine.
- Toss the carp to your cat or dog and eat the pine board.
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LMFAO, Colorodo Ice your hilarious. I'm rolling on the floor.
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LMAO.....That has got to be the best carp recipe I have heard yet.
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I have an Elephant recipe similar to that.
RG
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rgfixit,
Yeah, there are versions of this joke that go way back. I just thought I'd run it by again and see who got a kick out of it. 8)
I put all my carp back for someone else to catch.
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That was great, lol, never heard it
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I always released them hoping I catch him or her agian.
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These fish are so strong they can really beat themselves up on the shore so precautions can be taken to protect them. First thing I do is bend back the barb on my hook. I've been doing this for all other species for about 10 years now, so it came pretty easy. No more fighting with the fish to get my hook back. An unhooking mat can be purchased or improvised. I bought used crib matresses from the thrift store, but an air mattress, wetted down to prevent chaffing would be better than nothing. To carry them from the water to the mat, a sling of some kind is useful. I'm going to make one by sewing and riveting straps onto a nylon garment bag. One of these, full of styro pellets would make an unhookng mat as well. You need the sling to weigh it because anything over 10 pounds and the scale would possibly rip the mouth open. I've been talking to these British guys and trying to learn a bit about their ledgering method of fishing (they call each other m8, cute, eh?) and they take fish safety pretty seriously. They've been good to me, so in spite of you guys who advocate the 'Easton Wiggler' as a carp lure, I'm going to advocate being nice to the scaley monsters. For a look at another method of carp care after the catch check out http://www.rfshootings.com and click on portfolio for the slideshow. It really opened my eyes ;) ;D ;D ;D
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:o 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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I just got done watching Iron Chef and they had a carp battle.
Most of the dishes were fried and a couple stewed I think. They tried to mask any off or fishy flavors by using a lot of onion and garlic. There was a whole fried fish that looked pretty d**n good where they scored the enitre fish on both sides, then deep fried it.
One of the judges did comment on the "freshwater" taste, which I take basically to mean muddy or "summer" flavor, like the way the pond smells in the flavor. Anybody else ever find that? Also, all the bones in one dish were commented on.
An old timer once mentioned to me he kept the fish alive in an old rain barrell to let the fish clean itself out. I have no idea if there's any merit to it. Has anyone else ever heard of this?
BTW, am I the only one watching this battle of the high chefs of Japan?
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I've heard of Asian people buying live carp and keeping them in the bathtub for a couple of days to clean them out, but how widespead the practice is I'm not sure. The recipe thread in Carp Anglers Group has a topic on rough fish preparation which mentions scoring the fillets so the bones are small enough to eat. Why not leave them whole then take them out completely? Many things don't make sense to me simply because I don't understand them, but that doesn't mean they don't work. I'm nearly 50 and I can't see that situation changing in the near future. This spring, I think there's some 5 pounder out there with my name on it. I'll still do anything once...twice if it doesn't hurt too bad. ;D
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Commercial Carp producers "flush" their fish by moving them from clean pond to clean pond in a series of steps thus supposedly reducing the swampy flavors attributed to "Ol Liverlips".
Mine go back in the water they came from.....I don't kiss them goodby either.
RG
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I watched it too Somers. I just couldn't figure out why they like it so much. They even showed how they like the gelitan that is under the skin....YYYYYYYYuuuuck. Can you imagine how "fishy" that would taste, even if the fish had been flushed first. They use some of the weirdest ingredients on that show. I think they are cooking with eel farts next week...LOL ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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An MSN search for eel-fart recipes produced 75 webpages...not bad. http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/humor/SNL/TheIronChef.htm dang, I can never get that hyper-link thing right! :)
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I hear ya livin4ice.
I've see them using whale tongue, sea cuccumber, fish egg ice cream, duck feet, all kinds of weird stuff.
Eel farts, That's funny.
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Recipe for Carp
- Clean carp, open flat and peg to a suitably sized pine board.
- Brush generously with butter or oil or alternately drizzle with lemon or lime juice.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper, chili pepper or your favorite spice blend (Cajun, Old Bay etc).
- Bake in a preheated oven at 375ºF until flesh browns lightly and begins to flake easily from bones.
thats the same recipe I use
- Once thoroughly baked but not over done, remove from oven and separate from board.
- Set the table and pour a favorite beer or befitting wine.
- Toss the carp to your cat or dog and eat the pine board.
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thats the best recipe its the one I use
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i don't like using pine boards. oak taste better.
HIMO
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The small ponds I go to sometimes are overrun with these critters. They muddy the water and once they get to a certain size, nothing will eat them. Not even me, since the water is polluted with the runoff from local housing projects. I personally like to take out my canoe, drift around and plug 'em with my bow around this time of the year, when they're spawning. Very relaxing way to spend an afternoon. Carp make really good garden fertilizer! ;D. J.
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I think I'd rather eat my boots.
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Recipe for Carp
- Clean carp, open flat and peg to a suitably sized pine board.
- Brush generously with butter or oil or alternately drizzle with lemon or lime juice.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper, chili pepper or your favorite spice blend (Cajun, Old Bay etc).
- Bake in a preheated oven at 375ºF until flesh browns lightly and begins to flake easily from bones.
thats the same recipe I use
- Once thoroughly baked but not over done, remove from oven and separate from board.
- Set the table and pour a favorite beer or befitting wine.
- Toss the carp to your cat or dog and eat the pine board.
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I like hickory boards ;)
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i agree, i fish for carp like any other game fish. im an avid bass and pike fisherman, but enjoy targeting carp, the fight is incredible, the smaller ones fight like bass even had them jump a few times. as far as eating them, never have , but did cook one up for a neighbor who crashed our cookouts, he thought it was very tasty till we told him what it was, so i guess its not too bad. i dont advocate bow fishing for them, but each to their own, and get pretty upset when people catch them and throw them onshore to die. my 7 yr old caught a 26lber two weeks ago and what a pic it was of him holding it, going to be used on the brochure advertising the june 25th carp contest at onondaga lake. all in all i guess treat them with respect
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i have some snapping turtles, i think they would love the carp flesh :-D tightlines, moose
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Recipe for Carp
- Clean carp, open flat and peg to a suitably sized pine board.
- Brush generously with butter or oil or alternately drizzle with lemon or lime juice.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper, chili pepper or your favorite spice blend (Cajun, Old Bay etc).
- Bake in a preheated oven at 375ºF until flesh browns lightly and begins to flake easily from bones.
- Once thoroughly baked but not over done, remove from oven and separate from board.
- Set the table and pour a favorite beer or befitting wine.
- Toss the carp to your cat or dog and eat the pine board.
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LOL
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fishing i let em go, bowhunting throw um in the weeds for the raccoons! ;D