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Judith
5/1/2022 07:30:36 pm
Nice to see clear water....horrid to see carp. My first encounter was many years ago on Lake Powell in a little hard-side houseboat (they actually used to have little ones, nobody has them anymore that I can see). My first morning out, I was awake just before dawn and saw all these LIPS out there. Moving lips. No clue, it scared me, but I didn't say anything. Later in the day, I realized.
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Tom
5/1/2022 08:03:00 pm
I don't normally like to kill things, especially if I'm not going to eat it, but Carp cause so many problems that they will just wipe out a lake until there's nothing left but them. And they're so hearty they can survive through almost anything, and a large female can lay over 1 million eggs... I wish I had just one chicken like that, I would be rich.
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OFM
5/1/2022 10:01:37 pm
I have run into a lot of folks that really like carp for eating. But I have never tasted it.
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Tom
5/2/2022 07:34:56 am
Being raised in the South, I didn't know anyone that ate Carp, but I heard that some people did. Since they've become such a huge pest in lakes everywhere. I think the best way to get rid of them would be to convince people they were good to eat. All it would take would be a few movie stars dining on $100 a plate Carp dinners at fancy restaurants, and in no time at all the lakes would be empty of Carp, and Carp farms would be the hottest investment on Wall Street.
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Larry Worsham
5/2/2022 06:32:14 am
At our previous home in Oregon we had a Koi pond with some carp gold fish. They are prolific producers and we harvested 100's of them every year. Too much work to do that again.
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Tom
5/2/2022 08:06:00 am
Thank you Larry. I had a friend back in Miami who had a Koi pond. And his big problem was, all of the big wading birds that live in South Florida would come to his backyard and spear his fish. And even if they were too big to eat, they would still have holes in them. Hurricane Andrew brought an end to his Koi pond, as well as his house.
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Linda
5/2/2022 02:30:47 pm
Coon Rapids, MN, used to host a carp festival based at the Coon Rapids Dam on the Mississippi River. I have no idea if it is still happening. Our daughter was young when we went so that's probably ~40 years ago.
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Tom
5/2/2022 03:53:24 pm
I've never been to Coon Rapids myself, but the name of the place sounds like somewhere I would like to be. Unfortunately being raised in the South, even though I can go as far west as I would like, I'm not allowed to go north of the Mason-Dixon line... People talk funny up there.
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