I smoked some once. Not bad, from clean water. A bear to clean, but a kick in the rear to fish for with a bow.
“...but a kick in the rear to fish for with a bow.”
We used to do that as kids. One time I met up with a buddy from to fish at his hang out. He saw my bow with the spool and line and said “Oh - that’s not how we do it.”
It was in more of a swamp than a river. Shoot them without the string, and then we would go running through the swamp after the carp with an arrow sticking out of his back. Looking back it may not have been the safest or kindest thing to be doing. (I don’t know - can you be “mean” to a carp?)
I think carp are a big game fish in England and France - although not sure if it is the same type. We never ate ours. One guy would use them for fertilizer.