Carp are some of the most intelligent fighting fish. They may not jump out of the water in great theatrical battles, but they are smart enough to run the line into every branch, rock, or other underwater debris... And by god do they have the muscle to run your spool. Reminds me of steelhead at points.
Being a NY Carpenter this is right on, even though they’re not native and already in 48/50 states- might as well consider them as normal as any other native species here now
Carp, once considered a trash fish, and at least in my state have been re-classified as an invasive species, fight like no other freshwater fish around. While using real corn for bait is illegal in my state, you are allowed to use corn-flavored dough balls.
@@Fishman2114 pls, carp can properly digest corn without any problem we fish centurys for carp in europ. just stop with the bs u all look silly to the rest of the world
I find Carp to be an amazing game fish. They are very powerful fighters, they are tricky smart which makes them challenging to catch and they are easily available in waters that other targeted fish may not be. Carp are a plan "A", plan "B" fish to pursue. They are challenging to catch, hardy for catch & release, and can be surprisingly good eating from cleaner waters when properly dressed and cooked. Love carp 😊😊😊
Common Carp are not considered invasive in many US states. Although I do agree that they can cause damage when they overpopulate a lake. This can be said for many species especially the largemouth bass, which we have allowed to take over many of our waterways for our own personal benefit.
@@SamWashburn98 I didn’t take it as hating, it seems I’m learning that there is a big debate on whether carp are a naturalized species or not. It also makes sense seeing that the bluegill is a natural carp counter.
@@lightfeather9953 there has been research done that shows that they really don’t have much of a long term effect on water turbidity. They typically just live in muddy water areas. Sure you can say they compete with other species but they are also a MASSIVE food source for all your favorite gamefish. By that logic brown trout and great lakes salmon should be considered very invasive as well.
One of the key reasons that carp are so destructive here in the US is their consumption of native fishes’ eggs. Lake sturgeon in particular have been decimated
Carp are tasty and quite mild. Insane power when caught on rod and reel. They do not feed exclusively on the bottom, I was under the same misunderstanding. I plan to have gear for making zig rigs next summer. I use a striker cast sonar and see them feed much higher in the water column than I expected.
I just bought a smoker and a fishing bow so I've been keeping and eating carp. They have a very distinct taste, kind of a mix of salmon and pork. I like it but I can see why people don't. The darker meat has a pretty gamey aftertaste.
Are you referring to the "mud vein?" We usually cut it out when cleaning the fish. Not only does it taste strong but I think it bio-accumulates toxins.
They put up a really terrific fight. Oddly enough, I prefer catching ones in the 20 to 22 inch range, they put up as spirited as a fight as bigger ones, maybe even more, without exhausting you.
@Fishman2114 In many countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Common Carp have been farmed as food fish for centuries. They are especially favored for food during the early to mid winter as they have fattened up; "winter Carp" are considered a delicacy. The seasonal high oil content makes them delicious! People in Europe and in temperate East Asia (where Common Carp have been farmed for millennia) view the US attitude towards Carp as very odd. Carp are commonly baked or roasted; their rows of "floating bones" make them unsuitable for stews. In East Asia, they are often marinated in a soy sauce based marinade before cooking; by this preparation, they can be fried, baked, or roasted. As an aside, Nishiki-Goi originated as color mutations in Japanese Common Carp farms.
@@Fishman2114 My grandmother used to season the pieces with something like McCormick's spice then bread them like schnitzels and fry them accompanied by German potato salad.
Another great video! I was wading for Smallmouth in the Merrimack River last month, and had a (relatively) huge carp swim by, at least 10-15 lbs. I have wanted to catch one ever since. I'm going to wait until I can get a second rod/reel setup though; I wanna live that multi-species lifestyle, but I'm also not the type of person who likes to sit for 30 minutes for something to bite.
@@BryceCorbitt You definitely should get a setup for targeting other species! What you could do is setup a catfish/carp/whatever rig and do some casting while you wait 🤷♂️
The only reason the carp gets so much hate is because its not a "desirable sport fish". Tons of popular game fish are invasive to many regions of the US, but because they're aesthetically pleasant and fun to fish for, people turn a blind eye to it. Fish and Wildlife will happily spend tens of thousands of dollars on "stocking" invasive species all over the place, and use whatever is left over to actually assist native fish populations. tl;dr We should be just as willing to eradicate largemouth bass in states they're not native to as we are to eradicate carp.
This is just stupid. Just because a fish isn't native doesn't mean it's invasive. In my state almost all normal sport fish are t native but they aren't bad like carp
@@intenseboardsports the guy above me is right bass will destroy an ecosystem. They're notoriously aggressive predators that live by the "biggest fish" rule, where anything smaller is game for eating. They might not be considered invasive but if left alone a bass population could and likely would destroy a waterway they aren't native to.
@@intenseboardsports "aren't bad like carp" yes they are lmao. Do you think food for those "sport fish" just manifests out of nowhere when they're introduced? No, they're competing with (and eating) the native fishes in the area. People like you just don't care about the fish that are being driven extinct because they're not "interesting".
Me and dad were communal fishing the Mississippi river just south of St Louis and did good. ,Sold them on state street in east St Louis. Peaple loved them and my sister took them to St Louis market and got 1 dollar a pound. Cleaned out scord .
what about making a video about tilapia? they are a good eating fish, reproduce fast and some varieties fight real hard and can get up to about 5kg, it's a pretty prized game fish here in Brazil and I think there are some in the southern States of the USA
The most underrated, hardest fighting freshwater fish is the bowfin. They fight harder than any largemouth, i have no idea why they aren't a sport fish other than uggo prehistoric looks and not great tablefare
I understand why they're destructive in Australia and parts of North America, but it's generally been my observation that they only take over in environmentally degraded ecosystems. In most other ecosystems, that has other healthy fish populations I find they normally just become one more fish amongst many, and often integrate into the food chain rather well. All that aside, I love fishing for them, they fight extremely hard and are actually very good eating if you catch them out of good water and know how to cook them.
in Bulgaria we eat the common carp for 6th of december, we are also very picky about their size, carp are like pigs, what i mean by that is that big ones have more fat in them than meat.
We have a pond here at home with a bunch of carp, however in some miraculous way there's trout there aswell. So I guess you really can't say that they'll 100% kill of other fish in the waterway
@@FiskaMedGabbe It’s definitely not a 0-100% thing! It’s more of the blue green algae blooms that cause the real damage… they are really bad in my town
Just to say in my home country ( Germany) carp are the biggest game Fisch carp can have WAY more then just the commen carp I love em cus the fight hard are massiv and Look so good just to say carp are good not perfekt but really good ( AND DONT KILL MASIVE A MOUNTS OF CARP
@@Iamaleafsfanwithabluesjersey A lot of people think that just because they are so common here in the states. For half my life I thought they were native, but they aren’t.
“Naturalized” species are mostly false propaganda left over from European colonization. Non-native species, with very few exceptions, do more harm than good in any given ecosystem.
I am 75 years old! Remember when raw sewage was pumped directly into the river. As I would walk by, I would see them ducking down the whole human fecal matter. Gross! After seeing that , I would never eat one!
The bluegill has so much hate where i live only rivaled by the carp by die hard bass guys,its like finding out opossums dont gont get rabies like yeah i guess so.
*sigh* carp don’t target fish beds and eat eggs trout are bigger egg predators carp are also a scape goat from human caused turbidity and algae blooms as their distribution follows people closely and their ability to live in the worst conditions as industrial, construction, and farming practices cause runoff and erosion killing both native plants and fish species causing river and lake bottoms to become more erodible along with the straight up soil washing into rivers and lakes you have water bodies increase in turbidity and and nitrogen causing algae blooms carp also don’t eat detritus they are what I would describe as a general specialist they are specifically evolved to eat blood worms a small midge larvae similar to a mosquito larvae that lives in decomposing plant matter and carp go nuts for them but they are also very adaptable to any food source available in my area they focus on invasive Asian clams for the majority of their diet as bloodworms are hard to come by
I love eating common carp and i love that in my country i will have absolutely 0 limit on how many i can take home, doesn't matter if i basically single handed extinct the common carp in a lake it's an invasive species and am probably just gonna get a trophy and i love the taste of it, its my favorite fish to eat in really really veggie full stew, delicious and not heavy in the guts so no stomach ache for eating too much of it
Those carp are muddy nasty tasting. The buffalo carp have a white meat thats really good but they have a red mud streak that needs to be cut out and tear the meat as it has fan bones.
@ carp are a great sport fish. Misunderstood in the US although a lot of anglers see the potential now. Silver carp are the problem as they unbalance the eco system. Carp are not native to Europe. They originated from Asia.
they have been there since the 1300s, and even if they are technically not native, that doesn't change the fact that they have done damage in america, a completely different set of ecosystems. they are a great sport fish, but terrible for waterways
Mine as well give out my opinion its simple *dont be a baby and deal with the bones* carp unironically have the same bone pattern as salmon or trout there y bones are just bigger the meat is also similar to salmon or trout anyway i mine as well get my early vote in on the next episode suckers white suckers another great eating fish but ppl wont bite because there so afraid of bones same with redhorse you can easily cover both in one video bc there similar
@@Fishman2114 i can’t remember, and i don’t want to watch the video, but they were a bunch of petty things, that bothers me as an aspiring ichthyologist
@@Fishman2114FIRSTLY, at 0:38 you stated that the carp were in the “cyprinus family”; this is simply untrue. Carp are in the Cyprinidae family, which is basically minnows and carp like fishes. Cyprinus is the GENUS common carp are in. Easy mistake to make, but still. genuses are basically a lower classification of family, think of it as a “family” within a family.
Speaking of cyprinus, this leads me into my next thing. A considerable portion of the background video shows mirror carps, leather carps, amongst other things. Whilst they are extremely closely related, but alas, aren’t the same. I suppose they are somewhat relevant because i know they’re in the us, but my point still stands, considering title says common carp.
@@Fishman2114IF YOU’RE GOING TO TAKE ANYTHING FROM THIS READ THIS: What bothers me most is that you FAILED TO MENTION carp are a naturalized species, meaning they’ve basically come to an equilibrium within the ecosystem. I wish you would’ve have dedicated a section to this, and further reinforced the idea of not killing them. it’s never a good thing to kill something for the sole purpose of killing it. Killing a carp may do more harm than good considering it would release ammonias and lots of harmful parasites and bacteria upon death.
Carp are some of the most intelligent fighting fish. They may not jump out of the water in great theatrical battles, but they are smart enough to run the line into every branch, rock, or other underwater debris... And by god do they have the muscle to run your spool. Reminds me of steelhead at points.
Interesting fact about the bluegill. No wonder in my area the carp is more common where bluegill are less abundant.
@@lightfeather9953 Bluegill love carp eggs 🤷♂️
Please do a segment on how on rare occasions very large carps can actually transform into dragons ?
@@ronaldgrove3283 Maybe that could be an entire video.
Dragons that are not technically dragons, but more closely related to birds?
-Find carp infested water
-stock with a few bluegill
-wait a few years for the blue gill to fatten
- catch the world record bluegill
-profit
Being a NY Carpenter this is right on, even though they’re not native and already in 48/50 states- might as well consider them as normal as any other native species here now
As a michigan carp angler well said 🤝
Carp, once considered a trash fish, and at least in my state have been re-classified as an invasive species, fight like no other freshwater fish around. While using real corn for bait is illegal in my state, you are allowed to use corn-flavored dough balls.
@@joshuariddensdale2126 Interesting… do you know why is corn illegal?
@@Fishman2114 there was question on wether fish can properly digest corn or not
@@eecm_ I’ll look into that, thankyou
@@Fishman2114 pls, carp can properly digest corn without any problem we fish centurys for carp in europ. just stop with the bs u all look silly to the rest of the world
@@yeeet3898 Woah I never said I agreed or disagreed 😅
I find Carp to be an amazing game fish. They are very powerful fighters, they are tricky smart which makes them challenging to catch and they are easily available in waters that other targeted fish may not be. Carp are a plan "A", plan "B" fish to pursue. They are challenging to catch, hardy for catch & release, and can be surprisingly good eating from cleaner waters when properly dressed and cooked. Love carp 😊😊😊
Common Carp are not considered invasive in many US states. Although I do agree that they can cause damage when they overpopulate a lake. This can be said for many species especially the largemouth bass, which we have allowed to take over many of our waterways for our own personal benefit.
Im not hating btw nice vid.
@@SamWashburn98 I didn’t take it as hating, it seems I’m learning that there is a big debate on whether carp are a naturalized species or not. It also makes sense seeing that the bluegill is a natural carp counter.
Common carp compete for food and disrupt the environment for other species. Even visually, they can turn a clear pond into a cloud of mud.
@@lightfeather9953 there has been research done that shows that they really don’t have much of a long term effect on water turbidity. They typically just live in muddy water areas. Sure you can say they compete with other species but they are also a MASSIVE food source for all your favorite gamefish. By that logic brown trout and great lakes salmon should be considered very invasive as well.
@@lightfeather9953they don’t
I feel like a weirdo for genuinely enjoying carp. I'm starting to catch them on boilies and pack bait.
@@Sonicx360isback Don’t feel like a weirdo, they’re a big fish and a fun fight.
Don’t I love fishing for carp
One of the key reasons that carp are so destructive here in the US is their consumption of native fishes’ eggs. Lake sturgeon in particular have been decimated
Uh what? You have fish like pumpkinseeds! Those eat everything..
Carp are tasty and quite mild. Insane power when caught on rod and reel. They do not feed exclusively on the bottom, I was under the same misunderstanding. I plan to have gear for making zig rigs next summer. I use a striker cast sonar and see them feed much higher in the water column than I expected.
Congrats on the pb man
hey buddy, great video eh. thanks alot
Here in my country, carp is considered a delicacy as it is very rarely caught
@@warrensun5999 Interesting, where is this?
In bulgaria its pretty hard to catch carp so people (including me) absolutely love them
5:59 what song is this?
I just bought a smoker and a fishing bow so I've been keeping and eating carp. They have a very distinct taste, kind of a mix of salmon and pork. I like it but I can see why people don't. The darker meat has a pretty gamey aftertaste.
@@Manetho72 Hmmm very interesting that kind of intrigues me to try it…
Are you referring to the "mud vein?" We usually cut it out when cleaning the fish. Not only does it taste strong but I think it bio-accumulates toxins.
They put up a really terrific fight. Oddly enough, I prefer catching ones in the 20 to 22 inch range, they put up as spirited as a fight as bigger ones, maybe even more, without exhausting you.
In Poland it is a traditional Chritmas dinner
@@tadroid3858 Huh that’s very interesting, may I ask how it is prepared?
@Fishman2114 In many countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Common Carp have been farmed as food fish for centuries. They are especially favored for food during the early to mid winter as they have fattened up; "winter Carp" are considered a delicacy. The seasonal high oil content makes them delicious!
People in Europe and in temperate East Asia (where Common Carp have been farmed for millennia) view the US attitude towards Carp as very odd.
Carp are commonly baked or roasted; their rows of "floating bones" make them unsuitable for stews. In East Asia, they are often marinated in a soy sauce based marinade before cooking; by this preparation, they can be fried, baked, or roasted.
As an aside, Nishiki-Goi originated as color mutations in Japanese Common Carp farms.
@@Fishman2114 My grandmother used to season the pieces with something like McCormick's spice then bread them like schnitzels and fry them accompanied by German potato salad.
Another great video! I was wading for Smallmouth in the Merrimack River last month, and had a (relatively) huge carp swim by, at least 10-15 lbs. I have wanted to catch one ever since. I'm going to wait until I can get a second rod/reel setup though; I wanna live that multi-species lifestyle, but I'm also not the type of person who likes to sit for 30 minutes for something to bite.
@@BryceCorbitt You definitely should get a setup for targeting other species! What you could do is setup a catfish/carp/whatever rig and do some casting while you wait 🤷♂️
@@Fishman2114 My thoughts exactly! Looking forward to it 😎
The bluegill is such a giga Chad fish
Well done and well said. Should have posted your prize catch.
@@cg-keuka Oh I definitely did! It’s on the shorts tab on the channel, planning to get some other trophy catches to add to it!
I love carp and carp fishing here in Washington
For what your game fish says about you, can you make a down south part free version I want to see peacock bass they’re my favorite game fish
@@Apato_fishing I can tell you’ve commented about them twice 😂
The only reason the carp gets so much hate is because its not a "desirable sport fish". Tons of popular game fish are invasive to many regions of the US, but because they're aesthetically pleasant and fun to fish for, people turn a blind eye to it. Fish and Wildlife will happily spend tens of thousands of dollars on "stocking" invasive species all over the place, and use whatever is left over to actually assist native fish populations.
tl;dr We should be just as willing to eradicate largemouth bass in states they're not native to as we are to eradicate carp.
Yeah a lot of people don't know largemouth were widely introduced into waters they weren't native to
This is just stupid. Just because a fish isn't native doesn't mean it's invasive. In my state almost all normal sport fish are t native but they aren't bad like carp
@@intenseboardsportsmost bass species are highly invasive and destructive. They are just well liked as a sportsfish.
@@intenseboardsports the guy above me is right bass will destroy an ecosystem. They're notoriously aggressive predators that live by the "biggest fish" rule, where anything smaller is game for eating. They might not be considered invasive but if left alone a bass population could and likely would destroy a waterway they aren't native to.
@@intenseboardsports "aren't bad like carp" yes they are lmao. Do you think food for those "sport fish" just manifests out of nowhere when they're introduced? No, they're competing with (and eating) the native fishes in the area. People like you just don't care about the fish that are being driven extinct because they're not "interesting".
What about a silver carp
@@terryhancock That could be an entire video dedicated to the silver carp…
Me and dad were communal fishing the Mississippi river just south of St Louis and did good. ,Sold them on state street in east St Louis. Peaple loved them and my sister took them to St Louis market and got 1 dollar a pound. Cleaned out scord .
what about making a video about tilapia? they are a good eating fish, reproduce fast and some varieties fight real hard and can get up to about 5kg, it's a pretty prized game fish here in Brazil and I think there are some in the southern States of the USA
@@dinohvp9488 I’d definitely consider it, but I’m not sure they’re a controversial fish. At least no one has mentioned of them being hated by people.
My dad once told me a story about how he caught a carp on a fly before it was cool.
The most underrated, hardest fighting freshwater fish is the bowfin. They fight harder than any largemouth, i have no idea why they aren't a sport fish other than uggo prehistoric looks and not great tablefare
@@skinwalkerhiddenvalleyranch For sure, I’ve really always wanted to get one. However they’re pretty rare in my area, being more common down south.
I understand why they're destructive in Australia and parts of North America, but it's generally been my observation that they only take over in environmentally degraded ecosystems. In most other ecosystems, that has other healthy fish populations I find they normally just become one more fish amongst many, and often integrate into the food chain rather well. All that aside, I love fishing for them, they fight extremely hard and are actually very good eating if you catch them out of good water and know how to cook them.
in Bulgaria we eat the common carp for 6th of december, we are also very picky about their size, carp are like pigs, what i mean by that is that big ones have more fat in them than meat.
It warms my heart to know somebody celebrates the Feast Day of Saint Nicholas. Mostly unknown in the US
I have caught a few bowfin here in southern Ontario Canada grate lakes region
We have a pond here at home with a bunch of carp, however in some miraculous way there's trout there aswell. So I guess you really can't say that they'll 100% kill of other fish in the waterway
@@FiskaMedGabbe It’s definitely not a 0-100% thing! It’s more of the blue green algae blooms that cause the real damage… they are really bad in my town
Just to say in my home country ( Germany) carp are the biggest game Fisch carp can have WAY more then just the commen carp I love em cus the fight hard are massiv and Look so good just to say carp are good not perfekt but really good ( AND DONT KILL MASIVE A MOUNTS OF CARP
Wait are common carp are that damaging I thought they are a naturalized species
@@Iamaleafsfanwithabluesjersey A lot of people think that just because they are so common here in the states. For half my life I thought they were native, but they aren’t.
Yeah I thought that too but the term naturalized Disney mean it’s not harmful.
“Naturalized” species are mostly false propaganda left over from European colonization. Non-native species, with very few exceptions, do more harm than good in any given ecosystem.
Thank you fish man
@@RandallJackson. Your welcome
I am 75 years old! Remember when raw sewage was pumped directly into the river. As I would walk by, I would see them ducking down the whole human fecal matter. Gross! After seeing that , I would never eat one!
The bluegill has so much hate where i live only rivaled by the carp by die hard bass guys,its like finding out opossums dont gont get rabies like yeah i guess so.
Half of these fish shown are not common carp. Completely different species of carp.
Carp are fun to catch... But, they blow.
😂
*sigh* carp don’t target fish beds and eat eggs trout are bigger egg predators carp are also a scape goat from human caused turbidity and algae blooms as their distribution follows people closely and their ability to live in the worst conditions as industrial, construction, and farming practices cause runoff and erosion killing both native plants and fish species causing river and lake bottoms to become more erodible along with the straight up soil washing into rivers and lakes you have water bodies increase in turbidity and and nitrogen causing algae blooms carp also don’t eat detritus they are what I would describe as a general specialist they are specifically evolved to eat blood worms a small midge larvae similar to a mosquito larvae that lives in decomposing plant matter and carp go nuts for them but they are also very adaptable to any food source available in my area they focus on invasive Asian clams for the majority of their diet as bloodworms are hard to come by
Love me some nice carp
You said the name close enough, A for effort
@@DillonTrinhProductions Was I close 😅
Fuck yea bowfin
I love eating common carp and i love that in my country i will have absolutely 0 limit on how many i can take home, doesn't matter if i basically single handed extinct the common carp in a lake it's an invasive species and am probably just gonna get a trophy and i love the taste of it, its my favorite fish to eat in really really veggie full stew, delicious and not heavy in the guts so no stomach ache for eating too much of it
4:00 is a classic example of lobbyists destroying ecosystems
Those carp are muddy nasty tasting. The buffalo carp have a white meat thats really good but they have a red mud streak that needs to be cut out and tear the meat as it has fan bones.
Wonderful fish. Great sport fish in Europe. The Americans have lost the plot if they think they're invasive . Have done no damage in Europe.
Key words: in europe. they're native there
@ carp are a great sport fish. Misunderstood in the US although a lot of anglers see the potential now. Silver carp are the problem as they unbalance the eco system. Carp are not native to Europe. They originated from Asia.
they have been there since the 1300s, and even if they are technically not native, that doesn't change the fact that they have done damage in america, a completely different set of ecosystems. they are a great sport fish, but terrible for waterways
Fun to catch.... tastes like arse🎉
Are we not gonna talk about how this video is ends at nine minutes and 11 seconds which is 911
Bluegills are the best fish, that's just a fact.
Common carp are garbage 🗑️!! However, they make great fertilizer in your garden. Other than this, they are disgusting 🤮!!!
Mine as well give out my opinion its simple *dont be a baby and deal with the bones* carp unironically have the same bone pattern as salmon or trout there y bones are just bigger the meat is also similar to salmon or trout anyway i mine as well get my early vote in on the next episode suckers white suckers another great eating fish but ppl wont bite because there so afraid of bones same with redhorse you can easily cover both in one video bc there similar
They make bream fat 😊
numerous things wrong in this video, **READ REPLIES FOR EXPLANATION IF CURIOUS.** I think you deleted my comment
@@Youarat225 I haven’t deleted any comments on this video, what did they say?
@@Fishman2114 i can’t remember, and i don’t want to watch the video, but they were a bunch of petty things, that bothers me as an aspiring ichthyologist
@@Fishman2114FIRSTLY, at 0:38 you stated that the carp were in the “cyprinus family”; this is simply untrue. Carp are in the Cyprinidae family, which is basically minnows and carp like fishes. Cyprinus is the GENUS common carp are in. Easy mistake to make, but still. genuses are basically a lower classification of family, think of it as a “family” within a family.
Speaking of cyprinus, this leads me into my next thing. A considerable portion of the background video shows mirror carps, leather carps, amongst other things. Whilst they are extremely closely related, but alas, aren’t the same. I suppose they are somewhat relevant because i know they’re in the us, but my point still stands, considering title says common carp.
@@Fishman2114IF YOU’RE GOING TO TAKE ANYTHING FROM THIS READ THIS: What bothers me most is that you FAILED TO MENTION carp are a naturalized species, meaning they’ve basically come to an equilibrium within the ecosystem. I wish you would’ve have dedicated a section to this, and further reinforced the idea of not killing them. it’s never a good thing to kill something for the sole purpose of killing it. Killing a carp may do more harm than good considering it would release ammonias and lots of harmful parasites and bacteria upon death.
Trash fish but better than Asian carp
8:28 I'm dead💀💀💀
@@Reecesurbanangling “GET OUT”
They are naturalized, they are already in balance wuth the ecosystem
Depends on the body of water. They are an infestation still in some