You couldn’t pay me to try!
Why some Polish families keep a live carp in the tub before Christmas
https://matadornetwork.com/read/live-carp-tradition-wigilia/
You can thank the Roman Catholic church for this fishy custom: Christmas Eve was traditionally considered a day of fasting, and devotees were not permitted to eat meat. Seafood, however, was entirely permissible, and over the years, Christmas Eve dinners evolved to include fish as the main course. Carp is the most popular choice in Eastern European countries like Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic, as well as Germany and Croatia.
As “The World’s Worst Fisherman” — and I used to have the coffee mug to prove it — I never caught anything, except seaweed clumps and some driftwood.