My biggest carp about carp is getting the dang hook out of its slippery leathery mouth. Other species you can hold the jaw with two fingers and if need be use jaw clamps and pliers. But try holding a 10 lb carp flopping around in a canoe while trying to get a hold of a treble hook with two barbs embedded in its extended mouth, seemingly minus a jaw! Dangerous to say the least as well as painful if scratched. Been there done that. Nothing against anyone who loves to fish for them or any species, just not this angler.

Let me expand on the fight: powerful but boring. Big sunfish give a better fight going sideways and then in circles making me think I have a much bigger fish on whereas carp dive down, then you pull them up and then down then up then down then up....yawn. If I had a power winch I'd pull them straight out of the water so I could fish for something else - anything else!