What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[pmek5]

have a great weekend everyone.

 

[Tyson A Wright]

GL-24 and Magnacut Buck

 

[JW225]

 

[WinMag775]

 

[WinMag775]

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Is this a Stag or a Red? Congrats, he looks like he has some great head gear!

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

Is this a Stag or a Red? Congrats, he looks like he has some great head gear!

Stag just means male, he is a red stag

 

[Oldy]

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!

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

Your going to have to taste some smoked northern canadian freshwater sturgeon,you may just change your mind.an Icelandic buddy used to put his gutted raw fish in some chicken wire on top of the shop,he would let it dry out in the hot sun for a period of time,he called it hard fish,I called it fly shit haven but in the spirit of thing I ate my share.

 

[kyhunt]

 

[TylerG12]

 

[pat9198]

Bonus pic for landscape/desktop users.

 

[WinMag775]

Stag just means male, he is a red stag

Gotcha. Thank ya for the stag education. I've always called a Red Stag a Stag and Red Deer a Red. I could see where someone would read that as gibberish.

 

[echoscout]

 

[black mamba]

Mike, that red #29 is one I definitely regret moving on. Still have my photos, though.



And I'm still carrying my Boker #4474 large stockman in burnt stag and 440C.

 

[WinMag775]

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.

There's a lot of myths about carp. Growing up ppl would say you have to know how to clean them(because of a mud vein) and like you said about cooking them. Other than the US, It seems the rest of the world highly regard carp as a game fish.

Carp have no mud vein. What they do have are Y bones which act as a 2nd set of ribs. The same as a Pike or Musky. After their properly fileted and cooked, their meat is white, flaky and delicious!

Here's another one for you, which is straight from Eastern Kentucky. You should try smoked Blue Back or Horny Head Creek Chub. Smoked chub will make a freight train take a dirt road!

 

[pistonsandgears]

 

[DaveHS]

There's a lot of myths about carp. Growing up ppl would say you have to know how to clean them(because of a mud vein) and like you said about cooking them. Other than the US, It seems the rest of the world highly regard carp as a game fish.

One thing is for sure: carp sure are FUN to catch on a fly rod!
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[sf fanatic]

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.

My grandma used to call them, “Sewer Trout” and now I know why

 

[pistonsandgears]

One thing is for sure: carp sure are FUN to catch on a fly rod!
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Hopefully your opinion of the Buck is higher than the dogs

 

[The Fort]

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Cool shield, and nice bone! Ducks Unlimited? Lance

 

[Sharp & Fiery]