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Thread: Smoked shad??? Caught a Gizzard shad 4oz under the the WI record yesterday...

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    Quote Originally Posted by MaryB View Post
    Northern pike is even better than walleye ....I don't bother removing the Y bones. Just pick them out as I eat!
    Agreed, N Pike are 2nd only to yellow perch IMO and I speak with authority on the subject. As kids we ate so much pike I grew Y bones myself. A northern Ontario Indian showed me a couple avoid-the-Y-bone tricks:
    Best way is to select the arrowhead shaped end portion of the filet from near the tail, there are no Y bones in that area.
    If someone beats you to that, lay the cooked filet on your plate skin side down. You can see the tiny row of Y bone tails poking out of the filet. The meat above and below the row of bones is boneless. Use your butter knife or fork to separate the thick chunk of top meat from bones, then the bottom chunk. The Y bones and the thin strip of fish containing them go into the table scraps pile.

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    I cut the Y bones out my pike and save that bony meat portion for pickeling.


    I have to say after I baked my 7 pound walleye today it tasted awesome!...accept for the lower rib meat...it was fishy in spots. The cheeks were the best meat!




    I still have the shad in the freezer. It’s in line. I smoked my last Buffalo yesterday that I speared from about a year ago. It had a couple of freezer burnt spots on the edges I cut off before smoking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tripplebeards View Post
    I cut the Y bones out my pike and save that bony meat portion for pickeling.


    I have to say after I baked my 7 pound walleye today it tasted awesome!...accept for the lower rib meat...it was fishy in spots. The cheeks were the best meat!




    I still have the shad in the freezer. It’s in line. I smoked my last Buffalo yesterday that I speared from about a year ago. It had a couple of freezer burnt spots on the edges I cut off before smoking.

    I wish everyone took this kind of care with God's bounty! Bon Appetite!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MaryB View Post
    Northern pike is even better than walleye but it MUST be cleaned right. I fold the filet over on itself and scrub it against itself under running water, do this for both sides. Removes all the slime and blood from the filet, they give northern pike that fishy flavor many hate. I don't bother removing the Y bones. Just pick them out as I eat!
    yup mary your absolutely right. Walleye is in the pike family but pike is better eating. Nice thing about pike vs walleye is BIG pike are still as good as small ones. Walleye not so much. Most around here toss the big walleye back. No better fresh water fish then pike caught in COLD water. Round here ugly girls that can filet pike right are married off faster then the home comming queen.

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    I'm thinking catfish bait
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lloyd Smale View Post
    yup mary your absolutely right. Walleye is in the pike family but pike is better eating. Nice thing about pike vs walleye is BIG pike are still as good as small ones. Walleye not so much. Most around here toss the big walleye back. No better fresh water fish then pike caught in COLD water. Round here ugly girls that can filet pike right are married off faster then the home comming queen.

    Explains why my big walleye tasted a little fishy around the lower rib meat in spots. Northern pike never, no mater what size.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LUCKYDAWG13 View Post
    I'm thinking catfish bait
    They smell so bad that catfish love them.
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    I eat chain pickerel back east with mash potatoes and was good just bake it . Then take the skin off and I did not worry about the Y bones since they were small . Now the next gizzard shad I catch this year I will have to try it out to eat .I eat everything else I catch . i just not sure yet how I will fix it up. I been out after the red horse sucker to can and pickle . You do not worry about the Y bones since they are you can say gone. the white suckers I de scale them and fillet and score down to the skin about 1/4 " and fried in the frying pan with some oil , I did roll in corn meal first and you do not notice the Y bone like you would it you did not score them .
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    I fillet the Y bones out of my Northern pike and save the bony strip for pickeling.

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