Another Lesson Learned

[Billbob]

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                                                              Smelts & Grits!?

[Billbob]

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                                                              Smelts & Grits!?
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Not very good on the quotes am I?!

[WDH]

Are the smelts fried  ???.

[Magicman]

Hot Tamales and Grits,


 
Yesterday for lunch.   

[Billbob]

Are the smelts fried  ???.

Absolutely!  Coat them in an egg and milk mixture, Coat them in flour, fry them in vegetable oil.  Smelts are running now so I'm going ice fishing next week.

[thecfarm]

Magicman,76° inside and you just gave me the shivers.

[Magicman]

At least when you are shivering I can tell where you are.    :D

[WDH]

I bet those fried smelts are good  ;D.

[Nomad]

     Smelt were one of the nice things about growing up in the north.

[Coon]

We have one use for smelts in these parts.... We use them for bait for northern pike.... the bigger the smelt the bigger the pike generally.....

[Billbob]

We have one use for smelts in these parts.... We use them for bait for northern pike.... the bigger the smelt the bigger the pike generally.....

Pike??  Around here I think they refer to them as chub. :laugh:

[Magicman]

You eat Pike ??   

[stanwelch]

Eat pike? ---- OH BABY!!  My favorite fish!

[thecfarm]

Coon,I have heard of using big bait for big fish. Someone put some Northern Pike here at Mosher Pond. Just down the road from me.It's a small pond,but feeds into the Sandy River many miles away. The state of Maine had a fit when they found out about it. The Pike can take over a pond. There will be a few ponds affected by this and that is before the Sandy River.

[Barney II]

Hey those  smelts are really great.  If you clean them, the best way is to snip off the head and feed them through the wringer  on your washing machine--use just a little pressure or you will be  cleaning the ceiling. :D :D :D :D :D     Northerns are the best eating there is---except sunnys

[Coon]

cfarm, those northern pike sure can take over a waterway fairly quickly as they are aggressive. They are very tasty to eat if they come out of cold water and if you know how to dea with the Y bones.  If that pond is shallow I would not eat those fish in the summer but boy oh boy in the winter months my belly would be full of em.  Did I ever tell you I like to eat fish.   ;D  :D   

[Migal]

You eat Pike ??   

Pike up north are nothing like in the lakes down here in ETX Magic

[1woodguy]

  I haven't had smelt in years as a kid we usually netted a lot more than we wanted to clean.
I trained my younger brothers and afew others on cleaning them :D. I explained that you bite off the heads and finger out the guts. They got pretty quick at it(true story) first time I explained I had a toothache and used a knife slow enough to convince them biting was quicker
   
  I checked the creeks for chubs in spring and when I found them I knew it was about time to spear fish usually pike
  This was in upper mich
P.S.  I was suckered into the above method of smelt cleaning as a wee tike
So I was just passing the wisdom on :D