I was rumaging through some pictures and I found theses and I thought I would share them. This was a 32 pound carp I shot when I was 17, in Michigan (1992). I won a contest with this fish; the prize was a dozen fletched alluminum arrows from a local archery shop. I won this contest two years in a row. The second year I won a bow fishing reel with a 27 pound carp. I havent done any carp shooting since then. Does anybody here shoot carp?

Try Vegas... Oh, CARPs, not CRAPS!!

Have you ever been to long in spokane county. I have never shot carp but man that place is chucked full. During June which i believe is there spawning season you could probly close your eyes and get a 2 for.

Ever thought about spearing flounder? That one sounds pretty cool though i've never done it.

The term is giging flounder. I did it as a kid on the gulf coast of Texas. You do it at night with a lantern when its calm. You can see them on the bottom but sometimes you get sting rays by mistake.
Bill

I've shoot carp with bow/arrow a few times in my youth, but not since. An interesting combination of sports.

There is excellent carp shooting in Potholes Res. I will be taking a trip in a couple weeks.

I was dinking around on a beach @ Banks last summer and saw some carp hanging near shore. Easily caught two of them and threw them on the beach. Do others do the same? I think of them as water rats.

Do people eat carp?

Just curious...

Some people do eat them but not very many. We used them as fertilizer when I shot carp. Some of the big carp shooting tournaments send all the fish to a fertilizer plant.

Back in the 50s and 60s my aunt lived on Long Lake NW of Spokane. My cousin and I would shoot carp from their dock. These things were huge, upwards of 40lb. My aunt claimed in the early days there was a commercial fishery for them and they were sent to a market in Chicago. We also fished using a rod and reel with a small wad of bread for bait, sometimes worked. We also tried jumping in and grabbing them by hand with some success. My aunt used them for fertilizer.

mmm crap oh i mean carp. Why would any one want to eat one.

We used to smoke them at the meat market I worked in as a teenager (Wisconsin). They tasted pretty good. Bony though.