Fishing Knots. Gone Fishing! All about fishing for fun - Fishing Bait. Asian Carp: Can't Beat Them? Eat Them. Carp — Queen of Rivers or Pig With Fins? By Pamela Eyden November 1993 People call them rough fish, and accuse them of eating walleye eggs and ruining ducks' food. Kids mutilate them and leave them to rot on the river bank. Bow hunters use them for target practice. Is this any way to treat a fish that British and Russian anglers prize, a fish that is popular in European, Asian and southern U.S. cuisines? Carp is the most widely eaten fish in the world -- why do Northerners despise it?
Is carp too common for us? Tom Dickson, carp fishing enthusiast and staff writer for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Fish and Wildlife Division said, "People up here have a prejudice against what they call rough fish -- carp, buffalo, gar and others. Dickson has been working on this problem for a number of years. "Maybe in the North, we have so much other fishing we can pick and choose," Dickson speculated. The oil is what may give carp a bad taste, too, if it has grown up in polluted water. "Carp is the universal fish," said Ramer. I Will Knot!