Steelhead?

[CreamyGoodness]

I'll agree to try it if you agree to not get upset if I put some on a bagel with cream cheese

 

[Punity]

Oh yes I do that already. Making a dip out of it is great as well.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Did you catch a male or a female? Did you salt-cure any eggs for the next time out?

 

[Punity]

For some reason both my fish have been bucks. But yea of we nab a hen we cure the eggs

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Do you use the bones/heads for stock?

Is Steelhead cheek meat as good as yellowtale cheek?

 

[CHefJohnboyardee]

red fleshed fish tend to not make good stock. Too fatty and the stock tastes funky.

Cheek meat is good on most fish.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

red fleshed fish tend to not make good stock. Too fatty and the stock tastes funky.

Cheek meat is good on most fish.

I used the head and bones to make the base of my chowder... but thats a stock for a soup that will contain that very fish...

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Punity... what do you think about cutting a sashimi filet off steelhead? Could be interesting!

 

[Punity]

Might be good. We sometimes bring soy sauce and wasabi salmon fishing cut some strips off a freah fish and dunk it

 

[CHefJohnboyardee]

I used the head and bones to make the base of my chowder... but thats a stock for a soup that will contain that very fish...

Adding flavor to soup isn't the same as making a stock from multiple fish skeletons. That said, steelhead late season would make a better stock than early season. Salmon stock is just foul most times. Just too fatty. So it would depend on the steely. The white ones should be fine.

 

[Punity]

Hooked a nice Native today gonna see if I can grab a good still image from my gopro video

 

[Punity]

not the greatest photo but i was all by myself in the middle of the river and it was high enough it covered the normal bank i usually bring them to but it was a nice catch and release hopefully they grow and i hook it next year when its 20+

 

[Punity]

Better shot

 

[+HopSpunge+]

Sweet........

I'm jonzen to get out. Need a good little warm spell in the forcast; to free up some open water to operate in. Still too much ice

 

[Toga]

I'm hoping to get out to a semi local stream that gets a very small run on Sunday to stretch my legs a bit.

 

[morticus]

Better shot

Nice!!

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Funny, self serving story about the day I went to pick up the steelhead from my inlaws's neighbor. To set up the somewhat boring story (that tells me all I need to know about the good folks in that part of Michigan), the neighbor called my m-i-l to let her know they had set it aside and I should pop over to get it. So I happily marched over there. I had As Im walking the couple hundred yards to their house it starts raining... really coming down even though the sun was out.

I get on their property and I hear her husband shout over from the shed he is puttering for me to come get out of the rain. He introduces himself and we chat a bit. I asked "is Jackie in the other shed?" "You know Jackie?" "Well... yes... I'm Dave's son-in-law..." "Oh yeah, Dave across the way. What brings you over here?"...

Turns out that Jackie had not told her husband that I was coming to get the fish... so essentially he called over to a guy who was basically trespassing on his property (as far as he knew) to come out of the rain. Thats nice people on a new level.

 

[Punity]

Nice people I wouldn't have been to someone I didn't know walking around my property haha.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

To be fair I was coming up the driveway, not just wandering around, but yeah. Ha!

 

[Punity]

Ahh well at least he was nice about it. Still got the fish though right?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Yup! Next day I got some tomatoes, potatoes, and mirapoix with a little chili powder and cayenne and made lunch for the house. Even my sceptical wife finished her bowl

 

[Punity]

Can't help it with those metalheads

 

[user 144271]

Where I work we smoke Steelhead every day. And we taste test every lunch

It is a great fish.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Funny aside. We caught a little smallmouth and another little fish (not sure what kind any more) and I decided to throw them in the pot too for more interesting texture. The bones and heads of the white fish went into a stock pot with some onions and fresh parsley.

The parsley turned my stock bright green.

My advice now... when it comes to fish chowder... dont fear a green stock

 

[CHefJohnboyardee]

Just use the stems from the parsley. Same flavor, no color.

 

[Punity]

Gotta.brung this back to the top Summer run is upon us in 4 days here in Washington. Anyone else gearing up for a summer fishing season

 

[+HopSpunge+]

Hopspunge is. Pretty much all lake run smallmouth now in the tributaries here. Unless you like to go inland and catch small browns. I usually just fish lakerun stuff till it gets too warm. Then I take a break from fishing in the summertime. Unless I go out on a friend boat. Ther's a monsoon happening in western NY now. So everything is blown out. I will take a few pics of the smallies next time I go out. You will be shocked at how big some get. Because of the zebra mussles they eat I think. ..

 

[morticus]

Gotta.brung this back to the top Summer run is upon us in 4 days here in Washington. Anyone else gearing up for a summer fishing season

The boat is going back into the water this Friday. It's has a fresh coat of bottom paint, new GPS, new radar. All the salmon, tuna, halibut, and bottom fishing gear is aboard. Going to hit it hard this summer!

 

[worthogg]

This is how we smoke em where I live. Not steelhead, but Chinook from last fall. Most of our Steelies are half pounders(1-5 lbs). But it's a good day when you catch an adult!!

 

[Punity]

Looks good to me.

Here's to Chasing Chrome s and Bonkin Domes.

Look up Wild Iron Outdoors on youtube in the wormaggedon video I'm the first clip and also the one where I'm reeling while holding the camera.