With all the derogatory comments, I wonder how many of the naysayers have actually tried them. I've eaten quite a few in Europe but mostly in the orient and they have been quite tasty. The rest of the world considers them a food fish and they were stocked here for that purpose. But being of European decent I find Northern pike a far better eating fish than the beloved walleye. The only draw back to carp is the bones but I have some Japanese fishbone tweezer that cover that problem.
