Do any of you guys fish for carp? Turns out I have some decent sized carp in my pond (biggest I caught so far is about 20"), and holy hell, do they put up a fight! That's some fun reeling! I've only figured out how to catch them on bait so far, and want to catch them on the fly. I want to buy some carp flies this week to give that a try.
I need to look at how many I want to keep in the pond (and figure out how many are in there now), which is supposed to be a bass pond. I put 150 bass fingerlings in a couple of months ago, but they won't mature till next year (if the herons don't get them or the minnows they eat first). In the meantime, I want to keep some carp just for the fun of catching a big fish and having them tow my RHIB around.
I haven't eaten one yet, just been doing catch and release. I guess if you prepare them right they are pretty good. They are a highly rated eating fish in Europe. When I was in Germany in my 20's, an Uncle took me to a sportsmans restaurant where we had fish, which turned out to be carp. If I had known it was carp beforehand, I wouldn't have even taken a bite, just from always hearing "trash fish" in the US, but I recall it was pretty good.