Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
I like my pike alive. If you’re going to eat the speared ones than ok but I imagine most end up in a ditch
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sandbur
5 year old buck +
I know no one that puts them in the ditch. Some spear the smaller ones for pickled fish. I prefer a certain size to eat. Occasionally a neighbor gets a meal of fish. There are precise limits based on numbers and length and there are three zones in our state. Then throw in special regulation lakes.
I pass on quite a few fish. It’s fun to watch them. Better than a screen on the new sonars, imo.
BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
Took my 9 year old daughter up north fishing from Christmas-New Years Eve. We mainly fished lakes in the Chippewa National Forrest. We fished pretty hard. First day I took her walleye fishing and we found lots of gold on a 3,000 acre lake. She caught about a dozen walleyes all by herself jigging a buckshot rattle spoon and on a bait feeder reel tipped with a golden shiner. We had a great fish fry of fresh walleyes. Went back a couple days later and found a tougher bite but still found a limit of walleyes to bring home.
She loves to fish crappies. I know a couple remote puddles that have lots of 9-11" crappies. They provide LOTS of action for her. We set the house up 2 different days on a really nice school and she probably caught well over 100. While she crappie fished I set up a shiner minnow on the bait feeder reel to target northern pike. She caught a 29" and a 32" about 15 mins apart. She also got 27.5", 27" and had one other 2lb line snapped by a really nice one at the hole. It was really hard to get her to leave the hot crappie and pike fishing. She can fish a long time!!! We had a blast and brought a couple bags of fish home to enjoy. Almost no development on the lakes we fished. She also learned to clean fish and now likes to remove the skin from our fillets. We got a few quick photos of the pike and released all of them. Hopefully we can reconnect on them next year when they are much bigger. Very pleasantly surprised with the size of the pike and the great walleye bite we found.
She loves to fish crappies. I know a couple remote puddles that have lots of 9-11" crappies. They provide LOTS of action for her. We set the house up 2 different days on a really nice school and she probably caught well over 100. While she crappie fished I set up a shiner minnow on the bait feeder reel to target northern pike. She caught a 29" and a 32" about 15 mins apart. She also got 27.5", 27" and had one other 2lb line snapped by a really nice one at the hole. It was really hard to get her to leave the hot crappie and pike fishing. She can fish a long time!!! We had a blast and brought a couple bags of fish home to enjoy. Almost no development on the lakes we fished. She also learned to clean fish and now likes to remove the skin from our fillets. We got a few quick photos of the pike and released all of them. Hopefully we can reconnect on them next year when they are much bigger. Very pleasantly surprised with the size of the pike and the great walleye bite we found.
I’ve never heard of back fat or lateral line removal on crappies and walleyes.
We remove the lateral line on white bass, but I’ve never seen fat on any fish.
BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
I will take out some of the pin bones/lateral line on walleyes over 15" and on bigger panfish. I don't want her to get a bone. She loves to eat fish. If they are small enough and I can fry the bones out I don't do much with them. You can see some of the small pieces I have cut up for her cause she loves walleye nuggets. These fish all come from lakes with excellent water quality and near zero development. Taste is phenomenal.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
Congratulations to both of you!
Angus 1895
5 year old buck +
Awesome!
Congratulations!
No ice here in Idaho to speak of.
Been re loading and cleaning the man cave.
Rode a horse a couple of times…….I don’t know if ice fishing is gonna happen as I gotta leave the end of the month.
Congratulations!
No ice here in Idaho to speak of.
Been re loading and cleaning the man cave.
Rode a horse a couple of times…….I don’t know if ice fishing is gonna happen as I gotta leave the end of the month.
matinc
5 year old buck +
Even on perch and bluegill you make two cuts above and below the lateral line and away goes the mud vane and pin bones. Two perfect tenders per fillets. About additional 5 seconds per fillet. The other garbage on the fillets you can scrape off. All the nasty red shit is mercury and ddt. My buddy gave me shit about removing the nasty stuff so I put it in a bag so he could eat it. Guess what he shut his mouth and pussed out. For your daughters future think about what your doing instead of running your mouth.
Mud vane on bluegills, crappies and walleyes? Is the mud vane above or below the back fat? I'm guessing you are just messing with people as an early April fool's joke or something.
I agree with you on removing the bones in a line on the front half of the fillet and we do that on walleyes and large panfish.
I agree with you on removing the bones in a line on the front half of the fillet and we do that on walleyes and large panfish.
Angus 1895
5 year old buck +
I take the squaw meat and steam it.
My dogs love it!.
My dogs love it!.
matinc
5 year old buck +
Ben being kind to you the mud vane on those fillets in your picture sticks out like a sore thumb. Every thing above and below is back fat from the skin. All of it needs to go. Those fillets in your picture above if I cut out the mudvane and scraped off the backfat and made you cook It separately I'll bet you would puke if you ate it. Your children deserve better. I don't care if it's a perch bluegill or Waldo its NASTY. No it's not April's fools I did it to my buddy and that was the last time I ever heard about wasting meat.
Bill
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Point it out in a pic. Circle it. I don’t eat fresh water fish but I’m curious. With tuna the blood line goes in a bucket for chum. Never eat that. With Mahi the center line goes with the bones.
Not sure on a fresh water fish.
I didn’t post any fillet pictures, but the ice fishing fillet pictures someone else posted looked good.
I’ve filleted thousands of fish with guys who have filleted thousands more than me and I’ve never heard once heard of a mud line or back fat on walleyes or panfish. White bass have a mud line along the back of the fillet that we remove though. I had northern Wisconsin walleyes for New Year’s Eve dinner and my kids had walleyes for lunch today.
What state are you from? Maybe fish from warmer areas need different preparation, but I’ve never seen that in Minnesota, Wisconsin or Canada.
I’ve filleted thousands of fish with guys who have filleted thousands more than me and I’ve never heard once heard of a mud line or back fat on walleyes or panfish. White bass have a mud line along the back of the fillet that we remove though. I had northern Wisconsin walleyes for New Year’s Eve dinner and my kids had walleyes for lunch today.
What state are you from? Maybe fish from warmer areas need different preparation, but I’ve never seen that in Minnesota, Wisconsin or Canada.
Bill
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Part of why I asked. I looked for your pics and couldn’t find any. I’m curious.
Mortenson
5 year old buck +
Mat do you like catfish? Lotta people love a "fishy" taste sometimes. That being said I've never eaten a walleye in my life (outside of restaurants) that tasted anything but awesome and as I mentioned above the pink meat stays in our fish up to about that 17-18" size. I probably don't catch big enough panfish to ever even notice.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Never heard that the red meat is where heavy metals and pesticides is accumulated. Is there testing or research that show that? I'm curious now.
I cut all the red meat out of big flatheads and catfish. Do a chutch fish-fry every yr and even the picky eaters think it's all crappie. It certainly has a strong flavor. I also bleed those fish before cleaning them. I think it helps "mild them up".
