Not to many people around here eat carp. Use to be a tradition to get Suckers in the spring runs and can them like Salmon. I don’t know when Carp arrived here but wish they would go back where they came from. In the creeks they are hard on gamefish spawn like smallmouth. When I was a kid we lived on Ohio River and there were 3 kinds of fish. Carp, catfish and Gar the only species that could survive in the pollution. River use to flood every spring before the Roller Dams. The water would go down trapping cornfields full of water about a foot deep. This would freeze and we would go carp hunting with an axe. See them under ice and smack ice hard as you could then chop him out. Summer time there was a factory with a fish pond on edge of town. They would pay 25 cents for golden carp. A few people ate them and we sold a few but mostly just threw them up on the bank. Now we have the Asian carp to worry about.