Duane Chapman, of Asian carp fame, (not Dog, the Bounty Hunter) will be giving a Asian Carp cleaning demo at Bass Pro Shops in Bolingbrook, IL on May 10.
He is not only an authority on the biology of these fish but also an expert on preparing them for the table. (He's also an incredibly worldly and entertaining guy)

Head over there to check it out.

I'll be there.

Cool! That would be interesting. Do you think he'll be cooking any? You know how I am about a free meal...

He said he would be fryingsome up.
I'm hoping a bunch of us can get together there.

Who knows maybe we could grab some supper afterwards and then go out and try to "re-stock" Duanes ice chest. LOL

Gary Allen (carpoon)is making up an article on his method of cleaning carp and buffalo too. I'm looking forward to that too.

I'll be there too.

Duane was very helpful last year on the phone.
I'd like to meet him in person this year since I couldn't make last year's presentation.

There is a good seafood restaraunt right in Bass Pro -Isla Morada.
Ate there last week after picking up a few things for the new boat.
It would be nice if Duane could join us for grub too, and shooting too if he desires.

A couple of my favorite places on the Des Plaines and Kankakee are just a half hour down hwy 55 from Bass Pro.

I'm in. What time is the demo?

The demo will be 11 AM to 4 PM Saturday. We'll be providing fry-cut Asian carp meat to Bass Pro, who is in charge of cooking and passing outfree fried fish. I assume fish will be provided until we run out, or Bass Pro gets tired of frying it up and passing it out. I don't know yet where we will be set up. It might be indoors.

Duane (not Dog) Chapman

Oh, and I don't know if I will be trying to go home on Saturday after the ordeal, uh, I mean, demo (to get home for mother's day - always a good idea for those of us with a wife, kids, and a mother in close proximity). But that would work only if I can bail out right afterwards and I'm not too road-weary after driving all the way there the day before. Seems likely that I will be there for the night. I'd like to get a chance to get on the water. Since I'll be at Bass Pro, getting a license seems pretty easy. Probably embarrass myself with my crappy bowfishing gear and very limited experience actually shooting fish, though. Y'all might excuse me, though, if I don't feel much like cleaning fish afterward, after cleaning 3 or 4 hundred pounds of fish for the fry on Friday, then doing demos all day on Saturday....

We'll bring the pontoon boat up. Maybe if you're up for it, we'll head out the big basin area. That's where Chris shot those bigheads.



Any bowfishing gear that you need or want to try, just let us know, we'll bring it.

Christine, for those of us that can't make it, could you please videotape the process for our website. If things go well, I might be practicing on a few of those Biggies tomorrow evening. Getting the nice fillets off... no problem. Getting all the red meat off the lateral line....no problem. Getting rid of all the fatty lipid deposits near the belly.....no problem. Getting those bones out of the dorsal area..... Big problem. They're not quite like the Y bones of a pike and I don't have a clue. Thanks.
Robster