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Forum: Illinois Bowfishers Club

07-06-2009, 05:41 AM

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Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

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Posted By carptracker

RE: Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

Yeah, that's what it is coming to around here. Illinois fish are a bit better off - but getting worse. I got a tubfull of silvers on Friday, but I did not even get my filet knife out. I did take some...

Forum: Illinois Bowfishers Club

05-14-2009, 07:03 PM

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Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

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Posted By carptracker

RE: Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

Icould not sayabsolutely for sure, but my guess is that a fish that recovers would recover in flavoras well. I doubt you could tell that a fish had gone through a"roughpatch" by flavor. But I could...

Forum: Illinois Bowfishers Club

05-13-2009, 06:21 PM

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Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

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Posted By carptracker

RE: Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

The red meat that runs down the lateral line of the fish is not worth eating. Yuck. Sometimes male bighead carp, and usually male silver carp, can have a redder-looking "white" meat that is OK to...

Forum: Illinois Bowfishers Club

05-12-2009, 06:25 PM

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Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

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Posted By carptracker

RE: Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

Lots of kinds, but the larger from the midwest ones that are primarily plankton feeding as adults are bigmouth buffalo, gizzard shad, and paddlefish. Data shows that bm buffalo and g shad on the...

Forum: Illinois Bowfishers Club

05-12-2009, 06:15 PM

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Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

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Posted By carptracker

RE: Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

Not enough to be worth mentioning. No place nearby to sell them, is the biggest problem.

[ETA] - not to mention the fact thatno onewould buy bighead carp that are all bones.

Forum: Illinois Bowfishers Club

05-12-2009, 09:58 AM

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Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

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Posted By carptracker

RE: Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

Yeah, I mentioned to Christine earlier that I don't really understand the variation in condition factor. It seems larger than it should be. But in the Missouri River, nearly all the bigheads are...

Forum: Illinois Bowfishers Club

05-12-2009, 05:51 AM

Replies: 17

Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

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Posted By carptracker

Flesh quality decline in bighead and silver carp

Condition factor, and along with that the quality of the flesh for eating, has been declining on bighead and silver carp, and it is worst by far here in the Missouri River. Essentially they are...

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