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Discussion in 'Bowfishing' started by TwoBucks, Apr 30, 2014.

  1. TwoBucks

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    What do you guys do with your carp? I have a guy in my town that has bought them for 10 or 11 cents per pound in years past, but I usually dont shoot enough to get more than 3 or 4 bucks at a time, and he only wants them the next day. I usually bury them in the garden, but I end up running out of space by the end of summer and I dont like digging holes :)
    What do you guys do with them?
     
  2. jvanhees

    jvanhees Die Hard Bowhunter

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    In the past tossed them in the plots to be disced under.
     
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    I would do that if our plots weren't 30 minutes in the wrong direction...


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    Yea true, that makes it tough. Ive never had anyone buy them which would be nice tho.
     
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    I toss them out in the pasture, or save some for coon bait during trapping season
     
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    Into the garden they would go!

    I usually get 100+ Silver Bass in the summer and the ones we dont smoke, go into the garden.
     
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    Hmm I guess I'm gonna have a lot of digging


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    Could always make a compost bin and stick it far enough away not to smell it..
     
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    I fillet the light meat out and smoke it...about 300# each year,
    Garden the guts, chicken feed ( Limited )
    I read about a guy with a pond of pan fish That had a couple of pallets on floats... pile the pallets with Carp and in a few days had a maggot farm for his fish
     
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    The other thing I do with them if freeze them up for Crawdad bait
     
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    Does composting work if you seal it off?


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    You have to have some sort of airflow, if you seal it, it will get moldy. They're really easy to make if you follow a DIY.

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    Ahh but then I have to smell it:(


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    Find a farmer and dump em on a field, or we just put them in contractor garbage bags and put them in the can on sunday night
     
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    Check with local warden, but some states it's legal to cut open the belly and sink them right back into the water you shot them from. Popping the air sac prevents them from floating up and stinking and they then go back to feed the other fish. Easiest disposal by far
     
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    There are a ton of snapping turtles in my lake, if i start putting carp in the bottom maybe the snapping turtle population will boom and I can start hunting them too:)
     

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