What the heck did I just catch?

Nice carp. I fish for them with bread balls. They're so much fun to catch. A 20-pounder on light tackle is a blast. Not good to eat, but not totally useless.
 
As people have said that's not a carp, at least not a species of carp I've ever seen.

These are carp.

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It kind of reminds me a little bit of this fish that I caught in Japan, I've no idea what species it was.

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And it also looks a little bit like chub that we get in England.

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I don't think any fish should be called trash, and carp is one of the most popular food fish in the world.

If you catch a carp and put it into a holding tank with clear freshwater running through, keep it there for a week, any "muddy" taste will be removed.
 
Well that fish from japan looks alot like a grass carp.I don't consider carp as crap fish.I don't think its the taste of the fish that people complain about its all the bones they have.My dad like to smoke carp.Carp are great and alot of fun to shoot with a bow.
 
I may be wrong but...

Isn't the carp you get in many rivers in the states an alien species? I remember watching something a number of years ago talking about the carp that are destroying natural ecosystems because they decimate food sources for the regular fish.
 
xDogsoldierx said:
Well that fish from japan looks alot like a grass carp.I don't consider carp as crap fish.I don't think its the taste of the fish that people complain about its all the bones they have.My dad like to smoke carp.Carp are great and alot of fun to shoot with a bow.
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Agreed. The taste, smoked or fried, is fine. It's just a pain in the arse to eat around all the bones. Sorta like a turtle. Is it really worth the effort? If that's your only likely meal for a while, then yes. Otherwise no, not to me anyway.
 
"Isn't the carp you get in many rivers in the states an alien species? I remember watching something a number of years ago talking about the carp that are destroying natural ecosystems because they decimate food sources for the regular fish. "

Yes I think your right on that but I'm not 100% pos.
 
I always heard the best way to cook a carp is wrap in in cowshit, stick it in coals until done, then throw the carp away and eat the cowshit.
 
R.A.T. said:
I always heard the best way to cook a carp is wrap in in cowshit, stick it in coals until done, then throw the carp away and eat the cowshit.
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Jeff, currently there is at least one higher end restaurant in Chicago serving Asian Carp Foie Gras and one or three alderman demanding that all fishing permits be cast aside and let poor folks eat as many as they want for free.

I cannot speak to the latter, but I can safely say that if it's on a "progressive" menu, dumb folks who've never cooked a real meal in their life but live out of a trust fund will eat it, gladly, and then yap about it to food critics, who will praise it, and so on.

We're electrocuting them 20 miles SW of Lake Michigan so that they do not get in the lake via the canal system and the Chicago and Des Plaines River, but you know how it goes, nature WILL find a way.

I figure if you're dumb enough to eat anything you catch out of the Chicago River, nature will find a way with that as well.....
 
I went to my 88-year old Father-In-Law and showed him. He said carp. But, he did mention the flatter nose on it than the usual carp. So, maybe fallfish is what it is. Oh well, this has been interesting and fun. If I catch another, I'll cut it in half and try a couple of the tasty recipe suggestions in the thread.
 
Carp is a bottom feeder. Growing up I was told they eat all the crap that contains all the bad stuff, IE mercury and other heavy polutents in the water, and not only does it taste like crap but it's bad for your system too. In Wisconsin they hang out around the waste sewage outlets. Wouldn't even consider eating one. The shape of the head makes me think that they're right in saying it's not a carp though, and it looks too... clean to me.
 
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