Quote Originally Posted by mrdux View Post
I've seen schools of bigheads in late summer afternoon on KY that were literally acres across and when you got close to one it looks like I kicked my Terrova onto rabbit speed with the prop barely under the surface. I've hooked them while pulling cranks and it was like hooking onto the back of a jet-ski.

Bowfishing for them is huge in this area and they take tons of them out of the lake each week. It just doesn't seem to be helping. We have had 2 huge fish kills below Ky and Barkley dams in the last couple of years but they mostly killed silvers. It makes one think that somebody is at work developing something biological to kill them but not kill game fish.

We had a Humminbird seminar at my shop a while back and we cooked a large silver carp that I got from a commercial fisherman.I think everyone who tried it was impressed. They are a chore to fillet and get all the Y-bones out but the texture and taste is as good as any bass I ever ate.

They have a couple of processing plants locally that are dressing them for consumption. Several restaurants close by have them on the menu. One plant that was built to export them to SE Asian went under. If the commercial fishermen around here could get 15 cents per pound in the rough for them, several would be netting them full time.

I have a friend in the delta in Ms. that is a commercial fisherman, and he only get 6 cents a pound in the rough for them. He says their no worth the problem and gas money to fish for.....