I would love to try one out but I just don't know about eating it out of the ohio river.. The meat was snow white and that is usualy a good thing but for what it's worth I do have a black friend that eats carp and he said he wouldn't touch one so I don't know.. I ask him about cleaning a normal carp and he said it was about the same as the big head or stripe bass you remove the red meat and the rest of the fish is snow white and taste great. I mean the guy likes catfish but will not eat the belly meat because it is too strong and cut the red meat off his catfish like i do so he defently does not like a strong taste.