Carp

[fish_fear_me2]

My grandfather said he cooked a lot of carp during the depression. As you said he claimed the bones were the biggest issue but the carp meat itself was delicate and flakey. I personally have never had a strong inclination to try it. I bet if you smoked it I would eat it [laugh]. I know years ago while fishing the weber river for whitefish and browns on a nymph I would catch a lot of suckers. I would toss them out on the bank and the next day at the same place there would be a lot of muscrat tracks and not a sign of the fish. One day as I was tossing one out an older lady asked me what I was gonna do with that fish. She said you damn trout fishermen.... she asked if she could have the 5 or 6 I had caught and I said certainly. She went off to get a gunny sack to carry her fish. She had a bottle of fish and a couple saltines when she returned. She told me to try it. It was delicious. She told me that was the suckers I was tossing up on the bank. She also handed me a recipe card with the recipe...Over the years I lost it but...who knows
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