I've had fried carp and it's good if done right. The people who know how to cook them swear by it. Personally, I'm not catching carp to clean and eat, but to each his own. I have read the way to cook carp is to smoke it. They have something called a Carp-O-Rama every year near here where they get kids to catch carp, then they help them clean them, then cook them up for them to eat and the people who have done this all agree it's good eating.