Thanks delta catfish farmers for the curse you have unleAshed on us. Scouting locations for gator hunting I took one to the head in the Yazoo River going approximately 20 mph. In the Little Sunflower, by far the nastiest *** river I have ever been in, my friends boat succumbed to a carp to his engine knocking his fuel pump off. We had to tow it back and his Mud Buddy engine is in need if a new fuel pump. Seriously the state of Mississippi or the federal gub-o-mint have got to get this under control. We spent the rest of the evening in Eagle Lake where the carp haven't got to yet.
OT: Asian Carp
- Thread starter rabiddawg
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Yeah...
There's nothing that could go wrong carp-skeet shooting in a boat with a shotgun.
There's nothing that could go wrong carp-skeet shooting in a boat with a shotgun.
Well sure, and while I was half joking, you could say the same thing about bow fishing, spearfishing, or any kind of general hunting. I remember reading an article back when they shortened redsnapper season about how there are few gaming scenarios as dangerous as spearfishing.
I believe the law is the boat can't make any wake, so trolling basically. Anyway, would be a ton of fun.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has been working on ways to slow them down or get rid of them. No luck there. I'm more concerned about the snakehead fish than carp.
They released a thousands of gar in Bee Lake to get rid of them. Nobody has caught any crappie there in the past 5 years because of the carp. They literally jump in the boat.
There was some kind of toxin the DWF was developing that could only be broken down by some enzyme only found in Asian Carp. I don't know what the result of that was, but I do know that the DWF found several hundred dead ones floating around in a very small space. There's apparently some brain fungus affecting them and only them, and they attribute it to how there are so many of them in such tight spaces. They're killing each other off through disease.
We saw tons of floaters yesterday but we just attributed it to people bashing their heads in on the side of the boat when they jumped in like we were doing. I have never been a person that wants to see things suffer but there is literally nothing too mean and inhumane for these 17ers.
Even vegetarians eat fish. These carp have no nutritional value and are ruining every ecosystem they're present in. I'm all for any tactic that rids them from our waterways, even skeet shooting.
There's a brilliant YouTube video somewhere of a former WWE wrestler kneeboarding behind a boat while wearing a football helmet and swinging a bat at them. This is how we end this once and for all!
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They are actually quite edible and nutritious. Similar tasting to tilapia. Americans just don't eat them because they are a bit bony and we associate them with other kinds of carp that aren't as tasty.
They do have nutritional value. Appears to be a developing market.
I hate the damn things. I ride holding a paddle up by my face for defense when running trot lines with delta friends.
You can grind them up for fish oil and pet food
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/illinois-company-testing-market-asian-carp-24981609
Or you can export them to China where they like carp
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1976681.html
I hate the damn things. I ride holding a paddle up by my face for defense when running trot lines with delta friends.
You can grind them up for fish oil and pet food
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/illinois-company-testing-market-asian-carp-24981609
Or you can export them to China where they like carp
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1976681.html
Ok, maybe I should have said "not worth the time to eat." I've heard of restaurants up north selling them. I just have a hard time getting on board the bacteria eating fish train.
I eat talapia, so I'm certainly not trying to stick my nose up at it, but that's not really a high standard of a fish to compare it to in taste either.
"Edible" probably isn't the right word to use. Technically bugs are edible too, but I don't see people being thankful when they land in people's mouthes.
Rotenone will kill all fish, not just scale fish. Us delta catfish farmers don't use them. We mainly use grass carp, some black carp but no Asian carp. There was a market for big head carp, and a few farmers were raising them until the Lacey act killed the mArket for them. Big heads don't jump like the silver carp do. I believe it was actually the state of Arkansas that first brought them to the delta.
We were actually devising ways to kill them en masse last night. Electro fishing ahead of a chicken house litter spreader mounted on pontoons with knives instead of beaters at the back should do it. You would have all the elements in place to turn it into a continuous carp blender. Mount it behind a party barge with an armored cab on it. The fan tail of carp chum would be cash money!
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