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For Osage Outlaw(dried fish air bladders for making glue)*pics*.....
JW_Halverson:
Well, if anyone has the guts to try it, it would be you!
M-P:
Hi Guys, It turns out that carp air bladder glue has already been tried! Yeah, I know, who in their right mind would have done this already?
But there I was re-reading A. Karpowicz' "Ottoman Turkish Bows" and the section on making glue. He says he has found other types of bladder ( as apposed to surgeon bladders) make as good a glue and mentions cattfish, gillbacker and croaker, but then adds that carp bladders were too greasy to bother purifying. So let us know....Are carp airbladders really greasy?
Ron
TurtleCreek:
The bladders dried well, and it appears by both sight and touch that there is no noticeable grease. When I took these air bladders out, there were two sections to it that were connected at the middle which gave it the appearance of a long balloon that had been twisted at the middle. At this "twist", there was a small section that had a yellowish tissue attached to it that appeared to me to be some sort of fat, which I cut away. I then took both sections and then cut them so that they would lay flat. I then took all of them and rinsed them several times in warm water, changing the water 3 or 4 times to help remove any traces of blood or oils/fats.
fishfinder401:
im curious, after that joking around about eating some of these, would anyone actually do that, im curious about the taste
M-P:
The common carp was introduced to Britian and to North America as a food fish. It has a long history of use for aquaculture and the table. I believe that carp is the fish originally used for making gefilte fish. In spite of this I've never gotten around to giving it a try. The taste is said to vary with water conditions, and the the bones difficult to remove.
Ron
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