I hate fish

[ICE]

so I have killed a bunch of them. I know sizes and the big one is 12 to 16 lbs.

 

[FM William Burns]

Break out the bow and go bow fishing not much sport in that pond but oh well they're just colored Carp

 

[rktect 1]

Trophy hunting? I wouldn't eat a carp if you paid me too.

 

[Frank]

Scott County Virginia has a rifle season for Suckers and Carp in the Clinch River.

 

[Mac]

NY has a bow season for Carp.

 

[fatboy]

I grew up not far from a large irrigation ditch, it was a blast in the early wnter, when the ditch was draining, to go down there and shoot carp.......started with bow/arrow, progessed to .22's....nasty critters.

 

[FM William Burns]

As kids we use to fish in the drainage system of our neighborhoods in South Florida. We would catch large Catfish but were never strong enough to pick up the metal grates to shore them..............Ah...childhood memories....thanks Fatboy for reminding e of this

 

[Uncle Bob]

I believe those in the pond are Koi and can be expensive. In Germany we had christmas dinner with German friends who served baked carp. Was good. Like salmon you have to be carefulf of bones.

 

[ICE]

I grew up not far from a large irrigation ditch, it was a blast in the early wnter, when the ditch was draining, to go down there and shoot carp.......started with bow/arrow, progessed to .22's....nasty critters.

When I was a kid about a half dozen of us would line a bridge with shotguns. Todd Larue would walk a half mile along the creek and then start walking back to the bridge. Coming back he would be in the creek slapping the water with a stick. All manner of wildlife would flee from Todd and finally get shot to death at the bridge.

We filled bushel baskets with all that wildlife. We took the baskets to a Del Monte migrant camp. We traded the baskets for beer. The migrants were happy to see us and we were too young to have a drivers license much less buy beer.

We never let Todd touch a gun....or beer.....Todd is crazy as a loon.

http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Illinois/Ogle-County-IL/Todd-Larue.254528.html

And fatboy we never used rifles....too dangerous.

 

[High Desert]

Carp would run up to 36 inches in the slough we used to fish. We would toss em back and we would catch the same ones over and over. Put small notches on top of their heads to see how many times we could catch the same ones. caught the same one three times in one hour.

 

[fatboy]

"And fatboy we never used rifles....too dangerous."

This was a ditch the was maybe 15' across, total depth from bank to bottom 6', so when we walked along the bankwe were virtually on top of the pools left, pools that might have 6-8" deep water.......

 

[ICE]

"And fatboy we never used rifles....too dangerous."This was a ditch the was maybe 15' across, total depth from bank to bottom 6', so when we walked along the bankwe were virtually on top of the pools left, pools that might have 6-8" deep water.......

You ever skip stones? Bullets do that. Fourteen year old boys with shotguns was bad enough.

I worked one summer during grade school pulling weeds in Del Monte fields. A school teacher would be in charge of twenty kids. We rode out to the fields in the back of a truck.

One day there were bee hives. The bees were all around. Now and then I heard a bee fly by that was supersonic. It came to me that I was hearing bullets whiz on by. I told the teacher. He said I was a malingerer and to get back to work. I turned around as a kid was running towards us screaming. His earlobe was parted and bleeding profusely.

The teacher called everyone in and we loaded up. Turns out it was a 22 caliber bullet from kid shooting at cans on a farm near a mile away.

So fatboy, where was it that you grew up?

 

[FM William Burns]

Been shot with salt rock as a mis-understood youth picking oranges from neighborhood trees.....now that $#!* stings............

 

[fatboy]

Little hard to ricochet off a surface you are at right angles to, I understand if you were shooting more horizontally...........