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Anyone like fresh fish?

Don Frelier

Don Frelier

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Some of you know my younger son.
He caught some beautiful fish over the weekend.
A coho and some brown trout.
The fish taste great this time of year out of the cold water.
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I don't know, most of the ones I eat don't have there jackets on, but I'm sure there better than fish! only fish I like is halibut fishnchips
 
The most incredible meal I ever had was catching a halibut in Kachemak Bay AK and having my mother-in-law make fish and chips out of it that same day. It's not too many meals that make you drool thinking about them 30 years later!
 
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Many years ago we fished for Walleye at night in Georgian Bay north of where @dadsbee lives north of Britt Ontario.
I vividly remember my Dad catching a 9 lb walleye.
We were so hungry when we got back to our camp we hit it over the head and fileted it.
It went from swimming to sizzling in 5 minutes.
It was unbelievably delicious.
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Walleye is awesome! They are called pickerel here. We are blessed to have the Hay River run through town. It’s less than a five minute walk from my house. When the water is clear you can literally catch one every cast. Ours don’t generally get too large, between two and five pounds.
We also catch a lot of pike. They are frowned upon by many, mostly because if you catch them in warm water in the summer they are slimy and taste, well, fishy. Catch them in ice cold water and they are as good as any other fish, better then some. The best part of catching them is their size, you get a lot of great meat. If you know how to fillet them bones aren’t a problem.
Attached is a photo of one with a huge sucker that it had just eaten.
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They don't get any fresher than this... two meals in one! LOL Thought I had a video on youtube of the 4" crayfish walking out of the Rainbow, fully alive, while cleaning the fish, but I don't..
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Or just hook the crayfish on for bait.
You know what they are eating.
 
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Weird part on that lake Don, if you try fishing with an almost duplicate artificial crayfish they won't even sniff at it, but like green spoons.

Best part about this stocked Rainbow Trout only lake, once I get off the water it's a 15 second flight back to my dock!

This is landing on said lake, our camp is off the far end of it and then just an S turn around a hill to land on the next lake and pull up to my dock.
 
Some nice fat fish (trout in the 1st couple photos), they are eating well...

I love fresh fish, I love eating fish, I love trout, lake trout
I loved it in Alaska even better than fishing up here high-country Calif.
Rainbows Brown Brooks Cutthroat Goldens Steelhead, wild or farmed/planted
fresh wild Salmon/King-Pink Sockeye Silver Chinook Coho,
even Chum way before they spawn, boney
I don't like cleaning them much, but I do it because
I want to eat the fish...
Fried or broiled, BBQ'd in foil with onion lemon & butter

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this used to be my favorite place, haven't been for a while
Dardanelle Res. up about 7,000ft
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Beautiful High Country lakes Calif.
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Love me some fresh walleye!!

My girlfriend caught a hog of a walleye...she beat me that year. It was about time. lol
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In 1981 over labor day I caught one in that same spot on the map.
27" - 13lbs 4 oz (and that was after in was in a fish basket for nearly 3 days)
It would have won the Labatt tournament that fall.
I think my folks have a picture of me with it. I'll see if I can get a copy.

My cousin has caught several even larger. He saw my dad catch the largest he's ever seen.
They didn't weigh or measure it but he swears it had to be over 17 pounds (in early November at Hay Bay).
 
when I use to run the pike tournaments out of the marina on sparrow, we'd have a big fish fry after, there was a team from london ontario that pan fried pike and you'd swear it was lobster, line up at there table was long!
think they were using 7up in the recipe!
we get a few pike from the lake but mostly walley in the winter, we just had a big fish fry couple weeks ago, the boys ooh and ahh, but I killed the barbecue wings!
 
We had a fishing forum group of us that would meet in Noelville every August, at Lakair Lodge, about 50 of us. We'd do a fish tourney on the Saturday of "best 2 fish", pike or Pickeral. Then a group of us would clean them all and the "batter *******" would dip and battery them all. Two big frier pots going, one Pike and one Pickeral and we wouldn't tell anyone which was which and nobody could tell the difference!
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Fresh fish you say .....



Nothing beats good fresh ocean caught fish - snapper is a great choice down these parts.
 
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