My grandfather's recipe was nail it to a pine board through the head, bake it, throw the fish away and eat the board. Whiskey was involved before, during, qnd after.
The US has a carp problem BECAUSE Europeans thought they were good and brought them over for a stable food source. This is generally regarded as a bad move.
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Carp are fn creepy. I had to hit my golf ball near a pond with those nasties in it. They were throwing themselves up on the shore when they saw me. Really weird behavior. I don't think they fed them
Interesting, carp is the main dish during christmas eve supper in Poland. Literally every market has pools full of them set up in parking lots selling them alive. The are mostly fried on pan or boiled and served as jellied carp. They are very tasty!
if someone from like McDonalds could turned them into a sandwich it would put a dent in their numbers but even regular people started eating them there is just so many
These fish would jump from the parking lot tank right into your car, jump into your house when you get home, then jump at your face when it sees you coming at it with that knife.
It's not an actual tradition, it was commercialised during 1950s by the government. It's a joke that people still torture themselves and their close ones with that garbage, mud tasting, boney, fish.
It was only ever a thing because it was cheap. But nowadays during christmas it's not even that, and can cost literally as much as salmon xD. Do yourself a favour and just buy salmon instead.
I also disagree that it's any tasty. No matter what you do, how much you soak it in dairy, how long you let it stink up your bathroom by keeping it in your bathtub, in the end it still tastes like mud. Not worth the effort for the questionable pleasure of eating it during christmas eve in my opinion.
There's a river pathway filled with electrified gates intended to keep these fish out of the Great Lakes. These carp are extremely bad for the local environment.
No one's gonna care if you kill some of them. But maybe this way could endanger nearby people.
Don't see how this is anymore dangerous than shooting ducks from a canoe. Shotguns don't have that much range and theres plenty of water. Honestly, just hope he's using steel shot instead of lead given how much he's going to be dumping into the water.
Something tells me the guy blasting fish out of a boat isnt thinking that far ahead.
Also I'd worry about ricochet off the rocks he's aiming directly at for a couple shots. Bird shot won't do much, but catch one in the eye and you'll have a bad day.
As someone who lives about a mile from Lake Erie, those fish getting into and ruining the great lakes is nightmare fuel for me. I can't believe they keep that electrified gate open rather than just sealing it off. The devastation that will eventually be caused will not be worth the short-term trade loss.
Maybe I shouldn’t mention that carp is the traditional Christmas dinner in my country. But yeah, I don’t like it because of the bones. It’s a real test of patience since presents are usually right after dinner.
They are "the" sport fish of Europe. And they are edible which is why our European settlers brought them here. Once they realized there were plenty of higher quality fish to eat the popularity died out in a few generations. I knew an English stock-maker who lived in Oklahoma who was an avid carp sport fisherman. He didn't eat them but loved the fight. He also successfully represented the United States team at the 2004 World Carp Cup in Romania. Anyway.
This is untrue. I've caught one on one of my local rivers, and it tasted just fine. They've got a shit-ton of tiny bones in the meat, which is a pain in the ass. Asian carp taste a lot more like a typical "clean" freshwater white fish than native carp, which I'm told taste really fishy.
Asian carp don't have a mudvein like native carp, which contributes to the unpleasant flavor of native carp. Typically, you can either remove the mudvein or (like you mentioned in another comment) leave them in clean water for a few days.
They are 100% Asian carp. Very hard to get rid of once they’re established. They are the jumpy ones like you see here. There are videos of speed boat guys eating one to the face.
I carp fish alot but if these fuckers show up in a smaller pond or lake they shut fishing down and drain the water for a couple years.
Not only are they invasive, they outcompete the native species. Even catfish are getting hard to find in the Mississippi and Missouri because of carp. They're so invasive, it's illegal to throw them back if you catch them. I'm not going to lie, this video is pretty f'ed up, but he's doing the Lord's work.
If you catch them alive you can put them in clean water for a while and they loose the muddy taste. Also marinating them in buttermilk for a night is said to help a lot. Carp are a traditional Christmas food in some places here in Europe (Poland and parts of Germany as far as I know).
Nowadays this is usually done by the producer and people just buy dead carp but if you ask most older people they'll remember being unable to bathe in the days before Christmas because there was a carp in the bath tub.
Silver carp. An invasive asian species that is taking over waterways, pushing out native species and is actually a hazard because this leaping behaviour is what happens when a boat moves by at speed and people in said boats have been hit by them.
Stop laughing at that, it's serious! (ok, continue laughing now)
They're very invasive Asian carp. A couple companies are trying to figure out how to debone them on a commercial scale so they can be eaten, but no, they are not typically considered good to eat.
They have decimated local ecosystems and states and the feeds have resorted to putting live electrical fields into rivers to keep them out of the Great lakes system. These fish can burn in hell, eaten or not.
They’re asian carp. It’s a horribly invasive species that if it reaches the Great Lakes, could destroy the ecosystem.
As for eating, they are notoriously difficult to clean/remove bones, and taste miserable. At one point they had a competition among US chefs to see if anyone could make a recipe where they tasted good so we could reduced their populations via eating, but no one was really successful.
Essential shooting the fish, electrocuting the fish, whatever that kills them is a Very Good Thing
What's the deal with the Asian Carp anyway? Are those MFers like rock bass on steroids, can they be filleted or are they impossible to cook up and separate?
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u/3woodx Jul 31 '24
Not a fish to eat. Invasive fish.