Why Not Eat?

[oneshot 1]

I was just thinking on which fish are liked for eating and found most of them easy to clean. 

I've ate Carp and Suckers since forever.  I looked up why people don't eat them? And found it is because they are full of bones. 

If a person cleans them and considers the bones and cleaning accordingly they can be good table fare.

But I also grew up in a time when you would find Carp at the Store and would see Bass Heads nailed to a board.

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[basska]

14 minutes ago, oneshot 1 said:

I was just thinking on which fish are liked for eating and found most of them easy to clean. 

I've ate Carp and Suckers since forever.  I looked up why people don't eat them? And found it is because they are full of bones. 

If a person cleans them and considers the bones and cleaning accordingly they can be good table fare.

But I also grew up in a time when you would find Carp at the Store and would see Bass Heads nailed to a board.

oneshot 

Well, we live in an era of sport fishing, especially amongst people in my generation (which will hopefully be benefit our fisheries, even with the takeover of FFS). However, others simply don't like the effort, or fish that don't have white meat. Personally, the only fish I target with plans of making a meal are Crappie, although I want to try White Bass and Walleye. Carp is just not something I would go through the effort for, especially as it's bottom feeding, boney, yellow meat fish.

[oneshot 1]

57 minutes ago, basska said:

Well, we live in an era of sport fishing, especially amongst people in my generation (which will hopefully be benefit our fisheries, even with the takeover of FFS). However, others simply don't like the effort, or fish that don't have white meat. Personally, the only fish I target with plans of making a meal are Crappie, although I want to try White Bass and Walleye. Carp is just not something I would go through the effort for, especially as it's bottom feeding, boney, yellow meat fish.

I use to sell Carp $1 apiece which was pretty good back then.

Most people fished for Catfish and Carp. 

The board thing with Bass was mostly couple guys went every evening to Fellows Lake Bass fishing.

Still think Suckers have Crappie beat as far as taste. 

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[Terrierman]

1 hour ago, basska said:

Well, we live in an era of sport fishing, especially amongst people in my generation (which will hopefully be benefit our fisheries, even with the takeover of FFS). However, others simply don't like the effort, or fish that don't have white meat. Personally, the only fish I target with plans of making a meal are Crappie, although I want to try White Bass and Walleye. Carp is just not something I would go through the effort for, especially as it's bottom feeding, boney, yellow meat fish.

carp meat is not yellow.  you're thinking channel cat (big)

[oneshot 1]

1 hour ago, Terrierman said:

carp meat is not yellow.  you're thinking channel cat (big)

Thank you I was thinking the same. But Buffalo has them all beat and some consider them a Carp. 

Even Channel Cat I take the time to split the fillet and cut the dark meat off and the fat.

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[Maverickpro201]

21 hours ago, oneshot 1 said:

I use to sell Carp $1 apiece which was pretty good back then.

Most people fished for Catfish and Carp. 

The board thing with Bass was mostly couple guys went every evening to Fellows Lake Bass fishing.

Still think Suckers have Crappie beat as far as taste. 

oneshot 

Opa use to call those Suckers, Hog Molly's we would camp on the Current River for 10 days, those were dinner all most every night. 

When we went to some of private lakes he knew about. We would Buffalo fish he made a good wheatie's dough bait, And he would grind them up and fry in like salmon patty's or make fish stick out of them;  and bass fishing I swear some of the Bass he caught would have been state records. He would mount the heads on a piece of wood, let it dry, then shellac them.   

[oneshot 1]

I usually cut the meat away from the Y bones on Carp and Buffalo then  cut into pretty good pieces and fry.

Catch mostly Red Horse. Scale, Fillet and Score. Use no flour in the breading just Corn Meal.

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