05-28-2004, 06:33 PM
Im with mikecromain on this. one...I too not only am capable of thinking left of center...I can think all the way around the back side of center if I have to to come up with an idea. I think if the carp are really that much of an issue and they cant get rid of them without damaging other fish in the process, they should open a "netting carp" season or kill a carp week where the "bounty" is collected and donated to some farmer organization someplace to use as fertillizer..I have seen more than one of the farmers around deer creek cut open a carp and toss it in a hole under the corn stalks from my tube....so why not on utah lake? I for one enjoy the occasion when a carp decides to eat the offering I placed out for a finn to fist fight....they are strong fish and fun to catch..heck we could freeze em send em to europe and england I hear carp is the #1 gamefish....highly prized...yuk. I like to catch em but I have never been inclined to keep or eat one..I have never even wondered what they taste like. I shudder at the thought of a slimy ball of white meat that smells like a carp...uuggh.
But maybe if we can get a bunch of helicopters to line up and start at one end of the lake, chase all the carp into the inlet or outlet into a net preset waiting for them....while they drag oh i dunno...maybe big wire mesh nets through the water to spook em...then they hold em all at the net site we could use another net or the other half of the net we placed and wrap em up into a carp burrito and sling em all up on shore...then the volunteers could get out the hammers and put on rubber jump suits and start slapping carp on the heads with ball peens, then some more recruits could split the guts on em and toss em back in the water to make fertilizer for the plants and food for a time for the other fish.....what ya think of that..LOL.
We all need to realize one thing..carp are the aquatic version of a cockroach..it doesnt matter how many you remove/kill/poision there is always a few more to start over...after the apocolypse if we survive the first animal we see will be a roach and the first fish will be a carp....maybe then we will eat em. I can wait.
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But maybe if we can get a bunch of helicopters to line up and start at one end of the lake, chase all the carp into the inlet or outlet into a net preset waiting for them....while they drag oh i dunno...maybe big wire mesh nets through the water to spook em...then they hold em all at the net site we could use another net or the other half of the net we placed and wrap em up into a carp burrito and sling em all up on shore...then the volunteers could get out the hammers and put on rubber jump suits and start slapping carp on the heads with ball peens, then some more recruits could split the guts on em and toss em back in the water to make fertilizer for the plants and food for a time for the other fish.....what ya think of that..LOL.
We all need to realize one thing..carp are the aquatic version of a cockroach..it doesnt matter how many you remove/kill/poision there is always a few more to start over...after the apocolypse if we survive the first animal we see will be a roach and the first fish will be a carp....maybe then we will eat em. I can wait.
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