Shooting Asian Carp

[slonezp]

Proposed in IL

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/asian-carp-shooting-illin_n_1272984.html

[GrundleLove]

I feel like that people arent actually putting their heads together to try and wrangle up these carp. i mean, lets put our heads together and come up with a plan to take out a bunch at once..there has to be an eaiser way than just fireing shotgun shells at them from a boat...so ghetto.

Let's see here. what about a series of spinning blades that rotate from each side of the boat that chop them up as they leap out of the water. like this crudely drawn MS paint picture

[clayton86]

Where's the fun in that letting a machine do it I'd rather get the trigger time and blast em

[Sfritr]

I just read an article in a magazine, outdoor life, field n stream? that was written about these carp. It went on to say that they performed blind taste tests on hundreds of people using Tilapia, Carp and either cod or haddock. 2/3 of the test subjects chose carp over tilapia. All fish were prepared the same way.

I also read an article that talked about the ability to farm these Asian carp and utilize the meat to can and send off to homeless shelters etc. These fish are a bounty that is untapped and can be used rather than government idiocracy twitlling their thumbs until they hit the great lakes.

Someone had to eat the first lobster too.......

[tipptruck1]

I heard there all ready in the great lake. So its to late for that. I even heard that they have been seen in parts of Minnesota and WI. That among a few other states. All we can do is really over fish them or kill them some how.

[slonezp]

I heard there all ready in the great lake. So its to late for that. I even heard that they have been seen in parts of Minnesota and WI. That among a few other states. All we can do is really over fish them or kill them some how.

From what I've read they have found the carp DNA in some harbors in Indiana. No actual carp though

[00 mod]

Kill me all!!!!

Jeff

[Bluebasser86]

I've thought several times how much fun it would be to shoot asian carp with a shotgun while driving down the river. It's kind of like flushing a pheasant or covey of quail, depending on how many carp they are/how big they are.

I also saw the test they did having people blindfolded and eating them and picking them over catfish or tilapia. I would love to see them harvested by the boatload and sent to countries where people are starving. Good PR for the US and we get rid of some carp, it's a win-win. For now I will continue to shoot them with a bow and cut them up for catfish bait.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Give me four Ethiopians and 12 Cambodians, I'll have those carp gone in a week.

I like the idea of netting em, canning em, and shipping em.

[Polarkraft05]

heres a useful website with true information. http://www.asiancarp.us/index.htm

[Mckinney24v]

Although shooting them is fun, there are other ways that are much more enjoyable. We have a section of a river that was dammed off now is has no current and has became infested with the carp. We use two boats one died behind the other that is using the motor. This puts you in perfect position to really whack the carp when they jump. We've used bats, shovels, rakes, chainsaws, weed eaters, broom handles. Basically everything. The most amount we've got in our boat in one day is 110. That doesn't count the fish we whacked that didn't make it into the boat.

[clayton86]

Chainsaws sound fun but also dangerous as hell. I'd like to see a ninja on the back of a boat flinging stars at them that would be cool very Hollywood but very bad arse. Or a samari sword I mean they are asian carp afterall

[Senkoman12]

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these guys are hilarious