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SeaDog1
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 Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:20 pm Post subject: Why ? |
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Hi,
Why is it that pretty much only here in Ct. fisherman don't keep Pike to eat !
Pike is one of the sweetest flavorable white fish to eat. 
In Mass., Vt. NH, and NY they keep them to eat !
Out in the Mid-west they spear them in dark houses and eat them.
In Maine they "HATE" them and leave them on the ice as coyote or eagle food !
Me ! -> I'll keep a legal size Pike or large Pikerel to eat !
There are some videos on youtube on how to fillet them !
Just as good if not better then a Cod loin !
Plus some recipes on how to make poor man's lobster out of Pike !
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Advent
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| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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As long as a fish is legal size i keep and eat it
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AfternoonFisher
Joined: 17 Feb 2012
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Location: Torrington, CT
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| Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 2:16 pm Post subject: pike eating |
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My buddy caught and ate one and told me it tasted awful. Could it be that they taste not as good in the summer, or does he just not know how to cook? If the latter's the case, send me a recipe to try. I'm thinking about tasting my first pike. Why not keep one, they live short lives here in CT anyways. 8 years here as opposed to 25 up north. The monsters people pull out probably only got a couple more years to live anyways. Lucky for us they grow much faster here.
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Elixir
Joined: 30 May 2011
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Location: Danbury, CT
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| Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 2:38 pm Post subject: Re: Why ? |
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| SeaDog1 wrote: | | Me ! -> I'll keep a legal size Pike or large Pikerel to eat ! |
My Pops loves pickerel. He almost strings it before I get a chance to measure it... 
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old perch
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Pickle the pickerel-
better than pickled herring.
Pike are fine to eat if you remember the bones are in the same place in every fish and you can cut them out ahead of time or eat around them.
If the pike ate tasted bad, odds are, the problem was with the chef, not the fish; really no reason for them to taste bad since they're not fresh out of a stock tank. |
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SeaDog1
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| old perch wrote: | Pickle the pickerel-
better than pickled herring.
Pike are fine to eat if you remember the bones are in the same place in every fish and you can cut them out ahead of time or eat around them.
If the pike ate tasted bad, odds are, the problem was with the chef, not the fish; really no reason for them to taste bad since they're not fresh out of a stock tank. |
Pickled Pike/Pickerel Recipe -> Similar to one my Uncle Ed used -> Works for Herring also !
Enjoy !
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x182dan
Joined: 19 Mar 2009
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Location: Seymour, CT
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| Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:05 am Post subject: |
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why don't I eat pike because I want to throw them back and let them grow bigger! The only fish that I really would eat that I catch are trout and salmon but I rarely fish for them.
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