Trash fish, or sport fish?

[GenericAngler]

Originally Posted by LincolnLunger

Carp are the same way, Carp are probably the hardest fighting fish I have ever caughten. They hit with vengence and run and bulldog you like there gonna die if you get them to shore. my longest fight ever was a carp, fought it for about 20 minutes long, it just wouldn't give up. and Ive never had a fish pull so much drag before.

I agree that Carp are just about as fun or more to catch than any other fish...And if there was someway that they could inhabite a water body without taking it over and harming it -- they would be treated with the same respect as any of the other sport fish. Heck, if you think about it -- that was why they were introduced in the first place way back when....People liked the way they tasted and the way they fought.

[thedarkarcher]

Originally Posted by GenericAngler

I agree that Carp are just about as fun or more to catch than any other fish...And if there was someway that they could inhabite a water body without taking it over and harming it -- they would be treated with the same respect as any of the other sport fish. Heck, if you think about it -- that was why they were introduced in the first place way back when....People liked the way they tasted and the way they fought.

they are a lot of fun to shoot with an arrow too.

[GenericAngler]

Originally Posted by thedarkarcher

they are a lot of fun to shoot with an arrow too.

I could bring up what we used to do to them for sport when I was a kid....but the last time I brought that up, I got some frowny faces.

I will just say this, if those carp could have talked they would have been saying: "Can't we all just get along". I know better now.

[Fish Recycler]

White perch certainly aren't a trash fish where they are native.

Like DA, I don't really like the term 'trash fish.' I especially don't like it applied to native, indigenous species like gar - those fish were here first.

It seems like the label is thrown around haphazardly and by so many different people in so many different ways, that it ultimately leads to a negative perception of fisheries where there need not be one.

After all, one man's trash is another man's treasure.

[Alex T.]

there are no trash fish......just trashy fisherman. IMO,there are no trash fish;there's just ALOT of mismanaged waters in this state with overpopulated fish species that some people find annoying.

Alex











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