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[–] [email protected] 173 points 5 days ago (37 children)

According to the links in this post It's 95%-99% survival.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago (35 children)

Then why can't I yeet a bunch of goldfish

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (4 children)

You can yeet goldfish. Carp are stupid tough. It's the tropical fish we often keep that are kinda wimpy. Also, they're not coming from a super healthy environment (the store) to our tanks.

[–] skulblaka 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I would watch carp throwing as a competitive sport, they aren't going to make it easy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean, have you heard of the mullet toss competition?

[–] skulblaka 2 points 4 days ago

I definitely have not, and now I have. I'm unsure if I should thank you for this or not.

I feel like it takes the sport out of it if the fish is dead though. The whole sport of the carp throwing is that a carp absolutely can kick a grown man's ass and flop to freedom if he isn't careful. You leave a carp alone long enough and those things turn into damn near coelacanths. They'll eat your dog. Manhandling one of those suckers into a parabolic arc is going to take skill, strength, planning, and luck.