What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

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WinMag775 said:
My great grandfather called them Bugle Nose Bass😆. The best fish I have ever tasted is smoked common carp at Lake Erie.

Growing up, we would ride our bikes to carp fish during summer breaks. We had a few local apartment complexes that had established ponds with 20lb+ carp. I had Wheatie balls with vanilla or anise extract as our secret bait. Those big carp would make a pole disappear if the button wasn't pushed in. 40 years later I can still remember the sound of a Zebco drag being cooked by a big ole carp!
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afishhunter said:
mountain trout? 😳 looks more like a medium size grass carp to my 6 (with bifocals) old i's.

I caught at least 100 of them from the Mississippi River, "growing up" in Clinton, Iowa, from Sabula to the "Quad Cities"*.
(*"Quint Cities" after Bettendorf, Iowa, joined never caught on by the locals.)
I hooked a "big one" (a estimated 20 pounder, according to my dad) when I was 5, fishing with my dad, in Sabula, Iowa. 😁👍
It broke my Zebco 88 rod & reel. 😭 (the Zebco 88 was a unitized short (around 2.5 to 3 foot, but to tip kid's rod, the reel part of the handle.) We never landed that fish.
I think that carp was the first fish I "caught" ... tho it is possible I hooked and landed some bluegill and crappie, when I was 4.

Smoked carp is yummy. 🤤
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When I moved here to Beardstown Il almost 23 there were a lot of folks that ate carp. I always threw them back growing up. I heard people here say you need to know how to cook them. After 23 years I still haven’t met that person that knew how to cook them.😂

But now hearing about smoking them I want to try it. 👍
 
kyhunt said:
When I moved here to Beardstown Il almost 23 there were a lot of folks that ate carp. I always threw them back growing up. I heard people here say you need to know how to cook them. After 23 years I still haven’t met that person that knew how to cook them.😂

But now hearing about smoking them I want to try it. 👍
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Smoking them IS the proper way to cook them. 😁👍

I like Hickory and Mesquite smoked (separate or a mix of the two woods)

A somewhat wealthy friend in High School swore Walnut and Almond smoked was the best, but I've neve tried it.
(they had a couple walnut and Almond trees they pruned back from time to time.
Just before graduation, they sold one of their walnut trees, to cover his 4 years tuition and other costs, at the University of Iowa.
He wanted to do medical research. No student loans, grants, or scholarships required.
I heard some of the other walnut trees were sold when his younger siblings went to college. (If they did not go to college, "their" tree, planted when mummy found out there was a bun in her oven, bought them a not new house and a new car, when they got wedded ... this was back when $30,000 bought a nice 3 or 4 br home on a good size lot.)
 
Miscellaneous Knife this week is an oriental Taylor Schrade Walden 65th Anniversary 804 whittler (thanks, Tony). It looks good and has good fit and finish, but I really haven't used it much, so I can't speak to its cutting prowess. I've seen some quite negative reviews of other models in this 65th anniversary series.
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Lambsfoot of the Week is LamBarJack, my rosewood Hartshead Barlow, a Jack Black Jack Black SFO from A. Wright & Son. Although I tend to favor a swayback handle on a lambsfoot blade, this barlow version is VERY desirable IMHO.
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afishhunter said:
Smoking them IS the proper way to cook them. 😁👍

I like Hickory and Mesquite smoked (separate or a mix of the two woods)

A somewhat wealthy friend in High School swore Walnut and Almond smoked was the best, but I've neve tried it.
(they had a couple walnut and Almond trees they pruned back from time to time.
Just before graduation, they sold one of their walnut trees, to cover his 4 years tuition and other costs, at the University of Iowa.
He wanted to do medical research. No student loans, grants, or scholarships required.
I heard some of the other walnut trees were sold when his younger siblings went to college. (If they did not go to college, "their" tree, planted when mummy found out there was a bun in her oven, bought them a not new house and a new car, when they got wedded ... this was back when $30,000 bought a nice 3 or 4 br home on a good size lot.)
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Ok off the wall question. For smoking. Do you fillet, chunk them like steaks or smoke whole?
 
Hard rain with thunder rumbling this morning. 49 Fahrenheit. The redbuds have blossomed and are pretty as usual, but my pic of the redbud tree in my back yard came out blurry. I took this pic of the daffodils in my yard a couple of days ago and forgot to post it. Spring has sprung 🌼
Pool and poker today 🎱
I know we're supposed to love all our children, I mean knives, equally, but sometimes you just favor one more than others ;)
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Everybody have a good day :thumbsup:
 
kyhunt said:
When I moved here to Beardstown Il almost 23 there were a lot of folks that ate carp. I always threw them back growing up. I heard people here say you need to know how to cook them. After 23 years I still haven’t met that person that knew how to cook them.😂

But now hearing about smoking them I want to try it. 👍
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However you cook Carp, before you do you should keep them alive without food in clean water (i.e. in a bathtub) for 24 to 48 hours. Carp are known for an ‚earthy‘ taste otherwise, because they are looking for their food at the bottom of the lake.
 
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