[EagleMamaMT]

If you want to make carp actually edible, here's the way to do it (seriously):

Put some French's mustard (or any brand of mustard like you eat on a hotdog) in a plate. After cutting up the carp in filets or pieces, roll them first in the mustard, then in seasoned cornmeal, or I prefer the seasoned Louisiana Fish Fry. Then fry them like you would catfish or crappie. They will taste great. It takes all the "muddy" flavor out of the carp.

My great fisherman/hunter Louisiana brother-in-law taught me this trick. He's an outdoorsman par excellence. If it swims, flys or lives in the woods, he can make you a meal fit for a king out of it. :)

[carpio]

We filet and score them. Then soak the scored filets in milk seasoned with Tabasco sauce for an hour or so. Then shake them up in a sack with Zataran's Fish Fry (seasoned corn flour) and deep fry the floured filets at 350 degree's until they float. There is absolutely no better fried fish on earth. And not a bone in a truck full if you score them properly.

Makes me hungry to think of it!!

Carpio

[cajun-jack]

hell, we all can...if we can catch it or kill it, we can pretty much eat it....a good place for free receipes for fine cajun cuisine is www.jfolse.com he is a very well known cajun chef...owns a couple of upscale extablishments (4 i think)...has a cooking show on PBS.

you can get free receipes from his website...i don't have paul prudhomme's web addy right at my fingertips, but google does.