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[sonerohi]

Life jackets + my mad life guarding skills = totally safe.

[Muz]

Carps will rip apart your life jacket. Hell, they can kill a fully armored dwarf. I remember seeing caravan marksdwarves lying in a stream of blood at the river. Marksdwarves I tell you!

[Itnetlolor]

Wasn't the story of Jonah about an epic struggle against an epic carp?

Spoiler: Could have been a whale (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: But just as easily a carp (nice bit of engraving) (click to show/hide)

[Jackrabbit]

Eh. It eats him and then hurls him out a while later. It's more a story of how Jonah was a judgmental, unforgiving prick.

[Itnetlolor]

Could have been more epic if it were a dwarf wrestling the gills off a carp, after being swallowed, and returning to the village he was given the order to kill it from with the skeleton of the carp in tow.

[Muz]

Could have been more epic if it were a dwarf wrestling the gills off a carp, after being swallowed, and returning to the village he was given the order to kill it from with the skeleton of the carp in tow.

I think that was one of the Power Goals in DF

[Vester]

Eh. It eats him and then hurls him out a while later. It's more a story of how Jonah was a judgmental, unforgiving prick.

The thing is, he was nowhere near as judgmental and unforgiving as a carp.

[Cthulhu]

I thought it was because he was afraid to go proselytize to the Ninevites?

[DreamThorn]

More like he thought that the Ninevehites were too sinful to deserve a warning of God's impending wrath, so God made a fish swallow him and take him to Nineveh, because God would prefer them to change their ways, rather than have to kill them all.  Jonah was afraid of God, because he was refusing to follow God's orders.

[DJ]

Carp fishing is lots of fun.  Buy a bag of wheaties, find an area they frequent, dip the wheaties in the water, ball them up onto the hook (That's gross, though, because they get all soggy) and then do battle with some very large and powerful fish.

I hear you people don't eat them, though. I don't understand why, because carp is quite tasty. Still, you should at least save them for your cats or something, because catch and release is a bad thing when it comes to these invasive carps.

[Cthulhu]

I don't have a cat.

I certainly don't have cats.

This reminds me of the time I went to Kentucky to see some family.  There was a catfish hanging from a tree.

Next year I went back.  There was a skeletal catfish hanging from the tree.

Kentucky is a scary place.

But yeah, we don't eat them, we just throw them back.  We should probably do something about them.  Maybe just leave them on the shore, I'm sure some dogs will get them, that might be gross for other people coming through.  There was a big cliff in the place we used to fish for them, my dad wouldn't let me get close to it because I was little.  We could toss them off that, they'd still land in the water but it was about 50 feet up.

[Nilocy]

You know whats really good at killing stuff, a nuke.

[Os Q]

I've heard they aren't eaten because they're really incredibly bony.

Maybe we should set up a bone-carving industry and sell the crafts to Elves tourists?

[JoshuaFH]

Pfft, I'm sure we could overfish them if we tried. There's gotta be SOME use for them.

[DJ]

If they're anything like European carp they're delicious and their bones are big enough to be easily separated from the meat.

But really, this is a golden business opportunity for cat food producers, if Americans are so determined not to eat carp. They should put up some trading stations around the lake and pay a buck or two per pound of carp. The hobos fishermen will get a relatively easy way to make money, the cat food makers will get dirt cheap raw materials, the kitties will get delicious fish and the ecosystem will get a fighting chance. Who knows, maybe it will even exterminate the carp.