Salmon, is it worth the knife?

[whaler1]

Boys caught a pike last night that wasn’t going to make the trip. Should be good fried in beer batter.


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[greenhornet73]

I really like pike a lot.  Usually just eat them  through the ice, interested to hear how they are from warm water.  Let us know

[KilliansRed]

I love doing salmon with a brown sugar and soy sauce marinade. I put a fillet in some Tupperware, cover the fillet in brown sugar and add enough soy sauce to dissolve the sugar. No real measuring involved. Let the fish marinade for 2-4 hours, 2 hours is just fine. Grill meat side down for some nice char marks then flip skin side down to finish.


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[Just my luck]

Just curious on how you guys go about bleeding out the salmon.Cut the gills and drag them on a rope outside the boat ?


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[GAMBLER]

Just curious on how you guys go about bleeding out the salmon.Cut the gills and drag them on a rope outside the boat ?


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I cut the gills and lay them in the cooler.


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[rdebadts]

Slice the gills, head down in a cooler for 5 mins, then gut them and clean out their abdominal cavity. I immediately put in ice. It is excellent, if done properly!


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[Shafiq]

Of course Salmon serves for family and it worth knife.

[Neo1945]

2 hours ago, rdebadts said:

Slice the gills, head down in a cooler for 5 mins, then gut them and clean out their abdominal cavity. I immediately put in ice. It is excellent, if done properly!


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I would love to see some pictures of this. Thanks!

[Gator]

7 hours ago, rdebadts said:

Slice the gills, head down in a cooler for 5 mins, then gut them and clean out their abdominal cavity. I immediately put in ice. It is excellent, if done properly!


The Fishin’ Physician Assistant

I've heard that you want to be careful if you open up the abdominal cavity not to puncture the intestine. Even on ice, fish are extremely susceptible to bacterial contamination. IMHO, if at all possible, I would leave them whole until just prior to being able to wash and freeze them - although it sounds like you haven't had any issues.

[Tyee II]

8 hours ago, rdebadts said:

Slice the gills, head down in a cooler for 5 mins, then gut them and clean out their abdominal cavity. I immediately put in ice. It is excellent, if done properly!


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So....you gut each fish as you catch them? You're making a mess on the boat every time you catch a fish? Seems like more trouble than it's worth...I don't even bleed mine and my fish are delicious. 

[Sk8man]

If you are someone with a bit of patience bleed them in the net held over the side of the boat. Just slit them across the triangular area behind the gills. It doesn't take very long if done right and very little mess.

[ifishy]

If you are someone with a bit of patience[emoji38] bleed them in the net held over the side of the boat. Just slit them across the triangular area behind the gills. It doesn't take very long if done right and very little mess.

Slice and tow on a boga also works great and can be done while resetting can also slice along abdoman and pull out the guts nice clean fish to work with at the fillet table

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[Gill-T]

Chef Prudhomme’s Magic Salmon or Cabela’s Venison Rub on the meat side. Grill mostly on the skin side, flip once. Two year old spring kings are the best table fare in Lake O. 

[ifishy]

gill-t i would argue that spring Coho are better but both are good.  were it not for some food allergies in my household i would eat salmon all summer long

[Ric66]

On 8/28/2019 at 6:31 PM, Tyee II said:

The lake Salmon are the best Wild Salmon you can get. They're way more expensive than store bought Wild Salmon though, but that's a different story. Try marinating in Veri-Veri Teriyaki sauce in the refrigerator for an hour or more and grill. Absolutely easy and delicious. Or any of your favorite recipes will be great with Salmon from the lake if the fish are handled properly. 

X2. Just learned about Veri-Veri sauce this year and  its a great easy way to make salmon on the grill. Just don't overcook it like I did yesterday

Another great way is to soak fillets in soy sauce for 15-30 minutes, then slab on some kind of creamy salad dressing- ranch, Caesar, Thousand Island, etc and then coat with bread crumbs and put flesh side down on grill, then flip and let cook till done.

[fishdawg]

So many easy ways to cook it.
I like to grill fillets with skin on, with a silicone mat or cedar plank. A simple light season of salt, and garlic pepper. I also like with teriyaki sauce. Some like to lightly brush on maple syrup.

I also actually fry it too, same as walleye or perch. I cut up the big fillets in small nugget sizes. A simple fry recipe is to soak nuggets in buffalo sauce, then coat in flour, then deep fry.... thank me later

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[garrymny]

I'm surprised so many leave the skin on. I always skin them even when smoking because I hate that blood stripe that lies under the skin.

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[Steeldrifter]

We bleed them by cutting gills and then on ice till we process them. Larger fish over 15 lbs. we zipper the fillets to remove the dark meat. And we always skim our fillets. We are very careful when processing so we don’t need to rinse the fillets as this degrades the texture. When grilling I do mine medium rare for best taste and texture. For seasoning I like salt pepper and smoked paprika.


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[Steeldrifter]

Forgot to add that we always vacuum bag ours for freezing as well.


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[Gill-T]

13 hours ago, garrymny said:

I'm surprised so many leave the skin on. I always skin them even when smoking because I hate that blood stripe that lies under the skin.

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The skin has naturally occurring antibiotics in the fish slime. There are Canadian fish camps that have learned to keep the skin on walleye fillets ( you have to leave on while crossing the border with fish anyway) for freezing and stacking the fillets skin down on top of the meat of the bottom fillet so there is always contact of skin on meat. I have no scientific proof this works. 

[reeltrout]

Another good way to make any kind of fish, cut in about one inch cubes, boil in salt water for 3 minutes. Bring water to boil, put fish cubes in, when starts to boil again leave on 3 minutes, drain water, toss in melted butter. Really easy!

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