Personal Best Carp

oh damn!!!!
 
Wow!
 
Carp are considered a delicacy in many places. Does anyone here catch them in clean enough water and turn them into a meal, or as is the case with that one, a bunch of meals.
 
albula said:
Carp are considered a delicacy in many places. Does anyone here catch them in clean enough water and turn them into a meal, or as is the case with that one, a bunch of meals.
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No answer to your question, but isn't that the reason they were brought over to begin with? For food... pretty incredible how adaptable they are.
 
albula said:
Carp are considered a delicacy in many places. Does anyone here catch them in clean enough water and turn them into a meal, or as is the case with that one, a bunch of meals.
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I think they would be edible in the area we were fishing. At least people catch and keep small mouth bass, and I assume eat them, in that part of the Columbia. I have never kept a carp to eat, but Clarkman is correct, the carp in the Columbia River are the ancestors of fish brought over from Europe as a source of food for workers that escaped into the river during a flood event or some type of natural catastrophe.

Over the years, when out on the river, I have seen people gear fishing with bait for carp in places and I think they were intending to eat them. Mostly Asians or Eastern Europeans judging by their accents. They would supply a big meal and there are plenty of them out there. They just don't seem like they would be that appetizing to me....
 
I'm not eating any carp caught in Washington. At least in the spots I usually target them. Definitely not anything out of the Columbia system.
If I was certain a fish had spent all their time in a Columbia trib like the Washougal or Deschutes then ok, let's try it.
I pass on the PCBs and mercury. :)
 
skyriver said:
I'm not eating any carp caught in Washington. At least in the spots I usually target them. Definitely not anything out of the Columbia system.
If I was certain a fish had spent all their time in a Columbia trib like the Washougal or Deschutes then ok, let's try it.
I pass on the PCBs and mercury. :)
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Walleye, smallmouth bass?
 
Chief that's a wonderful fish. Used to fish carp with corn on a handline just about every weekend from age 12-14. In that entire time I caught one that was similar size to yours, and it's still the biggest fish I've ever caught maybe excepting a striped bass from a guide boat jigging away with a reel lined with wire and just about no chance the fish would break off ( which in the way I think of PBs shouldn't count near the same as catching a fish on your own)
 
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