The Original Old Farts Club

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Think I might need to clean the desk off.... Spring is coming.


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But have any of you ever fished for eel . man what a good fight

Disgusting slimy critters - I care less for them - vs- snakes.

To handle them you must wear gloves or hold newspaper around them
or better yet
just chop their heads off with axe when they are still attached to hook.

I caught,cleaned,cooked, and ate fresh water eels once-never again.
 
*Never toss a carp back if you're around severely tanned individuals unless you want your sanity or parentage questioned. Been there; done that.

I used to snorkel for carp in the Clackamas river using a spear gun and give them to my Japanese sensei whose wife cooked them so that their bones crunched up when we ate them and served them in a special sauce. Sensei said they consider the carp the "Queen" of the fishes.
 
Splain por favor ??
When I was a teenager, I'd get bored as heck and head for the Stepping Stone Falls at Mott Reservoir. I'd take a box of shredded wheat cereal, a micro light fishing pole with an open faced reel loaded with #4 test line, a couple of Cokes, and a pocket rocket or two. Only thing you'd catch down there were carp. The negroes that inhabit the area love carp. Ain't nothin' more fun than latching into a 6 or 7 pounder and spending the next half hour coaxing them in. Once landed, I'd remove the hook and toss 'em back. Anyone that saw me would literally go nuts. You'd think I'd tossed their fish back! The smart ones would politely ask if they could have my next catch, to which I'd comply.
They were using your standard poles. A carp would swim up, remove their worm or dough ball, and swim away without them knowing the fish had ever been there. If a carp even bumped my bait, my pole would let me know. It was about as thick as a cat's whisker at the end. Uber sensitive. Made for a lot of fun for a stoned, bored teenager.
 
Brother Hippie i use to do the same thing in New Orleans when i lived there. I lived just down the street from Lake Ponchartrain. I caught some big ass Carp out of there,,including Gar. Took me awhile to get them in but by the time i did there were all kinds of ppl waiting to see what i was going to do with them. I always gave them away. Caught a Gar that was damn near 5ft long. That fker gave ma a real battle. There musta been 15 ppl in a crowd waiting to see what the fk it was bending my pole to the water.😁
 
I got a carp story for ya all. In the late mid fifties I was just a young en and my grand parents ran a restaurant, hotel and bait store called Gravois Mill on the Lake of the Ozarks. My grandmother ran the restaurant and the special dish was Nellie's Home Style Catfish. From what I am told people would come from miles around to eat there.

From time to time the supply of catfish would run low. No worries, my grandmother would simple substitute Carp for catfish. Apparently if you cut out the "mud line" from the fish, fried it with all the fix-ens, you couldn't tell the difference. For years my grand pa would laugh and tell stories about people eating carp and loving it. Yes, they were white.... Keep in mind this was 1950's Missouri in the Ozarks.....






 

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