Bowfishing river past Friday night

[bigrod]

Well we went out bowfishing for the first time this year and the water on the mighty Ohio river was fairly clear and appeared to be down a little which made the main river flats even better. If you are planning to get out do so before any rains mess up the visibility. We got about 30 carp and a couple of cats. Nothing huge but it was fun going again.

[Danny]

Bigrod....

Just curious..... what did you do with those carp?

Thanks,

Tight lines and God Bless

Danny

[basslure]

I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT HAPPENS TO THE CARP AFTER THEY PUT AN ARROW THROUGH THERE HEAD? i HAVE HEARD THEY WERE NOT A GOOD FISH TO EAT.

[bigrod]

Danny most of the time there are certain people that catfish the river where we put in that tell us they will take em. I think they barbecue them, better them than me.

[mfishyboy]

not being racist but alot of black people like to eat them. they are always down in the bottoms in henderson tryin gto catch them with nets and we shoot some for them.

[biggw]

I have heard in the past years,that they sell smoke carp in western ky for 20.00 a plate-I don,t know this for a fact--but if its true i would try it. lol

[Danny]

Interesting... thanks for the reply.


Tight lines and God Bless

Danny

[LoweBow]

As for fish disposal....most times my fish are delivered to a sinkhole on my farm. Critters gotta eat too. Yes this is an exceptable method of discarding them. I do not agree w/ nor will I tolerate returning these fish to the waterways dead. Especially dumping them at ramp areas or near public water accesses!
Hog farmers will sometimes take these fish as food as it's pure protein and free.
At the UBK Carporee each may LBL takes all small carp from us and uses them for food for the raptor rehabilttaion area.
Many bury them in their garden as fertilizer.

As many don't like the idea of "wasting" this fish there are very few options and this is an exceptable way of ridding the waters of "exotic" and "non-native" fish. Common carp, bigheads, silvers, grassies, black carp.....etc are all non native and mostly inedible. The silvers are actually quite good w/ white flaky meat you just have to know how to extract that meat while leaving the floating Y bones out. W/ fish in the 25# range it's easy to get 5# of boneless fillet out of them.

Many of the native species such as Buffalo and Gar are actually quite good to eat you just have to know how to clean and prepare them. Catfish....I'll beat someone for not eating them..LOL


Glad to hear you had a good night on the river.
I shot down south of Brandinburg Sat night.
Had 14 bigheas between 38lbs and 56lbs. Prob. over 500# total.
Good night for the river!

[Danny]

Disposal of the dead fish is not what I found interesting.

Tight lines and God Bless

Danny

[LAWNMAN]

plug as many as you can , the carp,drum&stripers have taken over the river "THANKS KDFW".

[bevo]

>Many of the native species such as Buffalo and Gar are
>actually quite good to eat you just have to know how to clean
>and prepare them. Catfish....I'll beat someone for not eating
>them..LOL
>
>

Amen. If you've never had buffalo ribs (yes, buffalo carp ribs) you are missing out. They are great!


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[LoweBow]

I'll be shooting as many bigheads as I can tonight and Sat night down below Brandinburg.
There's a tourney to help thin out some of the bigheads on the Tennessee River below KY Lake Sat. night.
Tons of bigheads there, but they don't average as much weight as the ones in the Ohio. A 40# fish is a goodun there and average up here.

Buff Ribs are awesome!