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What's a "garbage fish"??
When you are hungry carp soup sounds and tastes pretty good....and this is from experience!!
This is a pretty good topic actually. I have always wondered what Shad taste like? As for Carp soup my buddy says it was pretty good. And Bass is pretty darn good as long as you get into em before the water gets to warm that you are fishing. Pellet heads are not that bad to eat if you cook em right stuffed full of bacon and onion and peppers try putting a little Jalepeno juice inside of em. Tasty Tasty
so i read on one thread or another that hatchery fish are sterile? and i also read that if they can't spawn the eggs poison and kill them. is this true? and if so is there some kinda rule that all farm raised trout have to be sterile, cuz my old farmer buddy used to stock his pond, but he quit a few years ago. i think that there would still be some lunkers too big for the ospreys to grab, but he insists that there is nothing in it.
I definitly keep and eat a lot of hatchery trout. I also give a lot to people that have no way to fresh fish on thier own. They really appreciate it. At the same time I release quite few. I don't think most people know how to do that.
If you handle a fish with dry bare hands or using a rag to hold on to them, you have killed them! Removing the slime from them does it. They may swim away at the time, but they are dead and don't know it. I used to do this all the time until I did it on friends private pond. All the fish I thought I carefully released died in 2 days. If your are going to C&R and you are fishing with treble hooks on lures you should remove 2 and put down the barb on the 3rd. If your bait fishing and they swallow it, cut the line.