Any carp fisherman here?

dartfreak75 said
What? Why wouldnt they want you to release it if your not gonna eat it?

population control
these rules usually only apply to invasive species
the kind that don't have any natural predators here and will eat a body of water empty, destroying the food chain

so, to keep the overall population healthy, you are encouraged to take the evasive species out and kill em (I wish homeland security would get a hold of this)

as far as actually eating them, in my neck of the woods that seems to be something only Asians do
I don't know if it the Laotians or Chinese or all of them, but it seem that everytime anyone else catches a carp around here (or a sheepshead, for that matter) they give em to the asain guy who is fishing the same pier

JDMopar said
Eating a Carp would be about like eating a Possum! :realcrazy: I used to fish for them when I was a kid, at a dedicated Carp lake where people fished Carp tournaments. I used dough balls, but have no idea what the recipe was....my uncle made it. Here's a Catfish tip. Buy or catch some nightcrawlers. Take a metal can, and drill some small holes in it. Put the worms in it, and rig the end back on it so it won't come off. Set the can with worms out in the sun, and let them get all cooked and stinky. Take the stinky worm can to the honey hole lake, and throw it as far out in the water as you can, and make sure to note where you threw it. Go back about 4 or 5 hours later, and all of the Catfish will be herded up around the can because it stinks. Cast fresh worms right around the can location, and you should be dragging Cats out as fast as you can unhook one and recast! Good luck, and have fun! :)

I think ive heard a similar approach used to bait bass
but then you put meat in the can and suspend it over the water
wait for the maggot to get in the meat, and fall out into the water
after a day or so of that, that spot should be crawling with bass