Species that you would or would not eat?

[JimW]

Spence,

Another good post (I like people that are passionate about our fisheries, not enough passionate people these days) and just for the record I don't think catch and release is torture on fish, just an observation I have heard used by "anti-fishing" folks.

The majority of my fishing is catch, photograph and release, though I do enjoy keeping some for the table.

Good observations McQ.



Back to the specific topic has anyone ever eaten sucker? Back home in Southwestern Ontario I would see a few people fishing for suckers in the spring and apparently they would pickle the suckers. I never really tried fishing for them and have not eaten them.

JimW

[Bass Addict]

I wonder if these suckers would be good eating...

[JimW]

that last one doesn'tlook too bad.

[DropShotr]

I wonder if these suckers would be good eating...

Hell yea!!!

My grandma had a recipe for "whistle pigs" that would knock your socks off!! Just get a young one

DS

[Canmoore]

Back to the specific topic has anyone ever eaten sucker? Back home in Southwestern Ontario I would see a few people fishing for suckers in the spring and apparently they would pickle the suckers. I never really tried fishing for them and have not eaten them.

JimW

I have eaten a sucker once, its meat was very bland. But than again, I baked it as a roast in the oven. Maybe that was why.

When I lived in Central Ontario, near Barrie, I would catch large suckers. They would get pretty large, and lots of fun to catch. A powerful but short fight...and easy to catch!!

[JimW]

I wonder if these suckers would be good eating...

Hell yea!!!

My grandma had a recipe for "whistle pigs" that would knock your socks off!! Just get a young one

DS

Maybe we should have a fish-hawk G2G "potluck" I'll make the following :

Woodchuck Pie

1 woodchuck, skinned and cleaned
1/4 cup onion
1/4 cup green pepper
1/2 tbsp minced parsley
1 tbsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
4 1/2 tbsp. flour
3 cups broth

Biscuits:
1 cup flour
2 tbsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. fat
1/4 cup milk

Cut woodchuck into 2 or 3 pieces. Parboil for 1 hour. Remove meat from bones in large pieces. Add onion, green pepper, parsley, salt, pepper, and flour to the broth and srit until it thickens. If the broth does not measure 3 cups, add water. Add the meat to the broth mixture and stir thoroughly. Pour into baking dish.

For biscuits: sift flour, baking powder, and salt together. Cut in the fat and add the liquid. Stir until the dry ingredients are moist. Roll only enough to make it fit the dish. Place dough on top of meat, put in a hot oven (400 degrees F.) and bake 30 to 40 minutes or until dough is browned. Serves 6-8.


JimW

[DropShotr]

Maybe we should have a fish-hawk G2G "potluck" I'll make the following :

Woodchuck Pie

1 woodchuck, skinned and cleaned
1/4 cup onion
1/4 cup green pepper
1/2 tbsp minced parsley
1 tbsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
4 1/2 tbsp. flour
3 cups broth

Biscuits:
1 cup flour
2 tbsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. fat
1/4 cup milk

Cut woodchuck into 2 or 3 pieces. Parboil for 1 hour. Remove meat from bones in large pieces. Add onion, green pepper, parsley, salt, pepper, and flour to the broth and srit until it thickens. If the broth does not measure 3 cups, add water. Add the meat to the broth mixture and stir thoroughly. Pour into baking dish.

For biscuits: sift flour, baking powder, and salt together. Cut in the fat and add the liquid. Stir until the dry ingredients are moist. Roll only enough to make it fit the dish. Place dough on top of meat, put in a hot oven (400 degrees F.) and bake 30 to 40 minutes or until dough is browned. Serves 6-8.


JimW

SON!!!!!!...............That's what I'm talking about!!!!!MMMmmmmmmmmmmm

I'll dig up my grandpa's recipe for snapping turtle soup

DS

[riverdog]

Perch, Crappie, Splake, Walleye are my favorite!

[Maple]

Aren't those ground-hawks!? No bird pictures please.

Just because we are at the top of the food chain, doesn't mean we are not in it. Quite the contrary. We are the apex of it. And those at the apex also contribute to the lower rungs. Through decomposition. Grade 10 carbon cycle theory. Let's not mix morality with biology please.

And for those who would not eat suckers or carp, because they "clean the bottom", it is exactly for that reason that they are less "contaminated" than bass for instance, who are higher in the food chain.

Never eat bass. Or pike.

Maple

[Bass Addict]

No bird pictures please.

I hear ya....

[saskie]

I don't like fish much to begin with - its not that I don't like it but I can promise you there'll be something else in the freezer/fridge/menu that I like more: but of the ones that I do eat occassionally and enjoy:

Walleye
Perch
Pike (only if from cold water)
Brookies
Scallops
Shrimp

Don't like:

Warm-water pike
SM Bass
Salmon
Lakers
White fish
Ling
Suckers
Lobster and most salt water fish (unless its drowned in batter, grease and tartar sauce)

Haven't tried

LM Bass
Crappie & all other panfish
All other trout

[Canmoore]

And for those who would not eat suckers or carp, because they "clean the bottom", it is exactly for that reason that they are less "contaminated" than bass for instance, who are higher in the food chain.

You know, I did not even think of that. Even though it makes perfect sense. Bio-accumilation, is the accumilation of contaminants in an environment in a pyramid fashion, the higher up a predator is on the pyramid, the more contaminated they will be.

For example, Beluga's are the apex predator of the St.Lawrence, just imagine all of the pollution coming form the great lakes, channeled into one river. That is why Beluga flesh is considered toxic material!!

Suckers and Carp which are bottom feeders, would be feeding on invertibrates and the odd vertebrates, which would have the lowest contamination levels!!


Oh and BTW, love that pic of the Red winged black bird. One of my favorite birds. I love sitting out on a summer afternoon, and listening to there call, for me, it epitomizes summer.

[Fishboy]

I live in Japan these days and here they eat anything that swims, floats, or crawls along the bottom of the seas. Today at lunch we had jellyfish in a miso sauce - really delicious. Many of the fish we eat, like smelts or sardines, are consumed whole. They're surprisingly good.

It's interesting that they rarely eat freshwater fish here. Of course, the rivers are mostly so polluted that few people would eat the fish from them. However, if you get up into the mountains, the waters are extremely clean. One of the nicest fish to eat is called ayu ("eye - you") and it's grilled on a stick over coals. Occasionally people will eat trout, but it's not popular at all.

[tman12]

Walleye man,
you said that rockbass dont taste good!!!????
i have had em before, and both me and my bud Kyle agreed that they were great!

order from best to worst: walleye, perch, sunfish, rockbass, trout
trout are yucky, but that is just my opinion!
tt
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[Mike M]

You haven't lived until you've had a few small brookies (8-10") lightly fried in some bacon fat for breakfast.
Absolutely would not eat an eel. Growing up near tidal waters in Nova Scotia, we caught a lot of them, some pretty big at 3-4 ft, and I can tell you there's nothing that'll pee-pee your mother off any more than coming home with a jacket full of eel slime. That stuff won't come off...period.