Chicago Angler Accidentally Catches Enormous Record-Breaking Carp

Outsider ^ | 10 Nov 2021 | Jon D. B.

[Jim Noble]

I saw that fish in Stop and Shop three days ago.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#2: "That thing is ugly as sin."

There is a seriously strong resemblance with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the Catfish Congresscritter.

[hinckley buzzard]

Here on the Great Lakes we call them ‘sewer inspectors.” They are bottom feeders and not too particular about what they eat.

[BlueLancer]

Growing up in Michigan, we used to fish for suckers in the springtime when they made their run up the creeks flowing into the Tittabawassee River to spawn. In addition to the suckers, we would also catch carp.

The suckers, when skinned and filleted, went into the smoker. The carp were buried in the garden as fertilizer for the raspberries. My dad, granddad and all of my uncles swore that that was the only thing that carp was good for.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Carp are bottom feeders .... could have possibly caught a Chicago lawyer politician.

[DUMBGRUNT]

—” He said every way he cooked it it just tasted like dirt!”

I spent summers on the Mississippi River and there was a fish smokehouse every couple of miles.

Carp, drum, buffalo... cheap and delicious!
Yes, greasy!

They kept live fish in huge tanks, supposedly to wash some of the dirt out?

The last time I was out that way, most of the smokehouses were gone.

[Bigbrown]

Every fish we smoke here in Alaska is oily. I’m guessing that’s key for carp as well.

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”We would give them to the Hmong “

A friend and supervisor was an avid fisherman and occasionally I would go with him to the Fox River after work.

Doughballs for carp and some days he would catch a lot of them, always someone would be more than happy to take them.
Blacks and Europeans loved them.

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”These are going to kill sportfishing in Lake Michigan.”

We, taxpayers, have spent millions and millions on the “electric fence” for fish...“We may be incompetent, but at least we are slow.”

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/henry-henderson/fish-fence-shocking-failure-it-time-zip-great-lakes

[Penelope Dreadful]

There is a lot of crap floating around in Chicago so to catch a record-breaking amount must have took some doing. . .

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”Carp are bottom feeders .... could have possibly caught a Chicago lawyer politician.”

Wrong bait, in Chicago you need cabbage and lots of it!

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”There is a lot of crap floating around in Chicago ...”

A nice shot and dead on target.

[BarbM]

I transposed the letters in the title, Something about a Chicago angler accidently...enormous-record breaking CRAP.

[JennysCool]

Ho-lee Carp!

[JoJo354]

Not that photo but the second photo that looks like the fish is hanging next to the dude. Looks weird is all.

[dfwgator]

[x]

Biden gave an interview to WKRC in Cincinnati this week.

I wonder if he thought he was talking to Venus Flytrap and Dr. Johnny Fever and wanted to sniff Loni Anderson's hair..

[telescope115]

The naïveté of youth: my dad (RIP) once sent me all over the shop asking all his employees if they had a left-handed monkey wrench I could borrow…😖

[Celtic Conservative]

My dad calls them “whistling trout”.

CC

[Rebelbase]

" No fair, carp an Asian fish. We no have that big in China."