New State record grass carp:

[AndyS]

While I was at the Lebanon Fisheries Lab this morning 2 guys from Mercer County came in with a grass carp that pegged a 50 lb. scale.
Pat Hamilton was giving the fish a proper id. They sent the 2 guys to Hackettstown because the Lebanon facility didn't have a certified scale that went to over 50 lbs. Current record is 54 and change.
Grass carp, aka White Amur is not your common carp with the barbel. Grass carp were introduced to keep the weeds down in farm ponds, pretty much the same way our common carp came to be. Not an invasive species because it doesn't displace native species.

[dboyd101]

Pretty amazing fish right there! Did you happen to snap a picture of the monster?

Thanks for the share btw!

[jmurr711]

bow? or hook and line?

[AndyS]

Rod and reel, corn for bait.

[jmurr711]

wow never saw one eat corn before thats awesome

[dboyd101]

There use to be an abundance of carp in Goggle Brook Park in Hawthorne when I was younger... probably about 14-15 years ago. I hooked into one @ 8 lbs and it was AWESOME to catch. I still remember that. They would hang out under the bridge waiting for stuff to just float down stream.

Sorry for the long story, but I use to fish for them with corn and we hooked into them a fair amount.

[Wilson]

There use to be an abundance of carp in Goggle Brook Park in Hawthorne when I was younger... probably about 14-15 years ago. I hooked into one @ 8 lbs and it was AWESOME to catch. I still remember that. They would hang out under the bridge waiting for stuff to just float down stream.

Sorry for the long story, but I use to fish for them with corn and we hooked into them a fair amount.
I think you mean Goffle:confused:
I used to live in Midland Pk:)

[AndyS]

Who says Friday the 13th is unlucky?

James Dempsey, 24, of Trenton doesn’t think so.

He landed a potential state record 55-pound, eight-ounce grass carp from Curlis Lake in Pennington around 4:30 p.m. that day.

The current record is a 54-pound, seven-ounce specimen taken in 2008 from Garrison Lake.

Archery taken carp are in a different category from hook- and-line fishing. The current title is for a 65-pounder from the Delaware River.

According to Dempsey, he took the fish to be weighed in at the Hackettstown Hatchery since closer scales at Round Valley Reservoir couldn’t handle that weight.

Dempsey had been fishing for about an hour, for bass mostly, and had caught a few.

Then he saw carp cruising by and cast into their midst.

Corn, a favorite of carp, was the bait.

[howarda780]

I'm not trying to start anything.

Do people eat those?

[june181901]

I've seen a lot of carp being eaten in eastern Europe and in Asia.

[jmurr711]

carp are very popular tablefare and sportfish in the rest of the world just never caught on in America. I will keep 1 once in awhile or if they are gut hooked as i never kill anything for no reason. they are very good early in the year before they really start rooting in the mud all summer and you can always do the cleansing in the baby pool if you are so inclined.I had posted an article on here awhile back about people eating them down south as a way to combat them as an invasive specie I know they are popular among Jewish americans and i have seen them sold @ the seafood market here in Northeast Philly in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood around passover and my buddys gmom loves them and i will give her a fish here and there also they are sold @ the reading terminal and in chinatown here in Philly so they are certainly edible.

[JOHN D]

carp are very popular tablefare and sportfish in the rest of the world just never caught on in America. I will keep 1 once in awhile or if they are gut hooked as i never kill anything for no reason. they are very good early in the year before they really start rooting in the mud all summer and you can always do the cleansing in the baby pool if you are so inclined.I had posted an article on here awhile back about people eating them down south as a way to combat them as an invasive specie I know they are popular among Jewish americans and i have seen them sold @ the seafood market here in Northeast Philly in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood around passover and my buddys gmom loves them and i will give her a fish here and there also they are sold @ the reading terminal and in chinatown here in Philly so they are certainly edible.
carp are the only edible fish that i wont eat, i took one home that i accedently snagged while bass fishing and it tasted like mud. maby if one is profesanally prepared, i would try it again but untill then, im staying away from carp