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[Terrierman]

When I was very young, we lived in Craig.  It was a big thing for folks to go to Camp Rulo which was a bar and restaurant just across the bridge in Nebraska.  They served steaks and fish out of the Missouri.  Catfish, Carp, Buffalo etc.  One time I got a carp bone stuck in my throat and went to my mother who was at the bar with friends.  She just looked down at me and said "eat a piece of bread" and went back to her conversation.  It worked too, cause I'm not choked to death.

[MOPanfisher]

I remember getting the same advice when I was a kid.  Can't remember the last time I had a bone stuck in my throat.  Filleting fish is a good thing.  Baked carp were pretry good eating, rich and sticky, always particular where we're ate them from, no pond fish.  Scale them, cut off head and fins wrap in foil with some onion and lemon slices.  Scaling a carp was alway the big job, and they were bloody messy critters to clean.  I would still take crappie, walleye or bluegill over them but wasn't nothing wrong with a good baked carp.  Canned carp were a whole different thing but not bad either,  you could eat them right out of the jar with a fork, or pit them.on crackers etc.  We did fry some smallet ones but we're care full to score them well, still ended up with a few bones. If/when silver or Bighead carp appear near me I will probably try one just because.

[Terrierman]

Carp that was 18" with the head on, gutted, scaled, scored and deep fried whole golden is nothing to sneeze at.

[fishinwrench]

Nobody I know ever catches small carp, and I never see juvenile carp cruising the bank, or the flats.

I'm pretty sure they are born about 20" long.   Kinda like skunks being born dead on the roadways.

[Gavin]

Buffalo is better than Carp. Both just OK. Asian carp is better than both, less oily.

[Flysmallie]

2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Nobody I know ever catches small carp,

If I was a carp fisherman I would only catch small ones. 

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, Gavin said:

Buffalo is better than Carp. Both just OK. Asian carp is better than both, less oily.

I'll take your word for it. 😏

[oneshot]

On 12/29/2019 at 7:08 PM, Gavin said:

Buffalo is better than Carp. Both just OK. Asian carp is better than both, less oily.

One thing about Buffalo they are Native and much better eating.

I always fillet leaving the Skin off so I can cut the Mud Vein. My wife told me not to score them.

oneshot

[fishinwrench]

A buddy of mine filleted a 10# buffalo awhile back, and it made my fish cleaning table look like someone had butchered a hog on it.  We were going to try frying some but the meat was so dark and nasty looking that we lost our appetite.   It got fed to the neighborhood possum.

[oneshot]

16 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

A buddy of mine filleted a 10# buffalo awhile back, and it made my fish cleaning table look like someone had butchered a hog on it.  We were going to try frying some but the meat was so dark and nasty looking that we lost our appetite.   It got fed to the neighborhood possum.

Well  something was wrong because other than maybe more slim Table should have been good. And Buffalo have a very White Meat.

oneshot