I have some friends that go bow fishing a couple times a week and there bringing in easily over a hundred pounds each trip no problem. I was with him a while back after he got back and we were talking and i got the bright idea to cut one up with a hatchet because trying to use a knife is a no go with there big armored scales. so i cut cubes and ended up using them as cut bait for cats and caught some considerable blues and channels so i know there good for that. we have to try to find the good in this i feel like to find a way to get rid of them. If you go on YouTube and look them up there is a plant in Western, Ky that is processing these fish and sending them over sea's to China. The Asians like the carp from us more due to the size and the taste something about they can only raise farm raised carp over there because there rivers are to polluted, so thats why these are so sought after. I think if they would offer 2 dollars a carp or something like that people would be more apt to go out and take there time to hunt these things.

Mitch