Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

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I’m watching the Mille

Tip of the day: Watch out for curling Eel pout. They’ll wrap around your wrist. Then shite on you.

Glad your doing frog hair fine!!! And equally pleased you confirmed the wrist wrapping chactoristic of the lowly eelpout..

Sometimes people tend to not believe me when I bestow my knowledge upon them

 

[Bogtown Chick]

LOL. Oh I believe ya Ralphie. No leg pulling ever....

Eel Pout or Burbot are actually a sign of lack of pollution or cleanliness of a lake. They decline in pollution. They are pretty sensitive to it I guess. That being said when you pull one up it appears out of the water like a creature from a radio active frankenstein lab with sliming of the fisherman almost immediately with drips in droves and no end or industrial use to speak of for the slime. Then once you finally get a hold of it good...and it's still writhing it poops steadily on you. So if you're still determined to keep the darn thing and actually fight the slime to take the skin off you are taking back straps out of it.

Oh yes-- Laugh all you want. BC and her backstraps! Another tip: I would not take back straps off an eel pout found on the highway. Freshy only! Deep fry or boil in 7up. Dip in garlic butter.

 

[Cebarmlds]

Beautiful knitting BC WOW!!

 

[duluthralphie]

Beautiful knitting BC WOW!!

I was going to ask what a baby toque was,,,,,but did not want to appear Holmlike.....

 

[duluthralphie]

LOL. Oh I believe ya Ralphie. No leg pulling ever....

Eel Pout or Burbot are actually a sign of lack of pollution or cleanliness of a lake. They decline in pollution. They are pretty sensitive to it I guess. That being said when you pull one up it appears out of the water like a creature from a radio active frankenstein lab with sliming of the fisherman almost immediately with drips in droves and no end or industrial use to speak of for the slime. Then once you finally get a hold of it good...and it's still writhing it poops steadily on you. So if you're still determined to keep the darn thing and actually fight the slime to take the skin off you are taking back straps out of it.

Oh yes-- Laugh all you want. BC and her backstraps! Another tip: I would not take back straps off an eel pout found on the highway. Freshy only! Deep fry or boil in 7up. Dip in garlic butter.

I have not caught an eelpout in years. I seldom fish for bullheads as I prefer northerns. I use to catch them on Mille Lacs but I have not fished that in years either, since Rudy Perpich ruined the fishing on it...

I have only caught them through the ice, does anyone catch them in the summer? I would eat one if I caught one now, I think. They have lost the stigma they use to have. I am waiting for someone to tell me dogfish are good to eat too.... I do catch them once in a while.....almost as ugly as a eelpout.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I'm thinking I have not really caught one in the summer either. We're always presenting bait for walleyes though. So if we were to catch anything ugly -- dogfish it would be.

We need to find something for the dog fish.... Dog food?

Edited to add that I just googled. They are active at night often. And late February/March is spawn season. Not necessarily a deep water fish.

 

[duluthralphie]

Speaking of weird fish we eat..

Beings Fishing season ends on Thursday and I know I will not be going fishing between now and then. I have decided to clean the bait fish I had in the freezer for supper.



We should have new ones in 2 months now. They are a pain to clean when frozen whole but I hate to see them go to waste.

In the frozen ball:

ready to eat:

 

[CindyinSD]

Waste not, want not.... looks like dinner to be to me.

BC, those socks and the wee toque? Amazing. They’re slated for heirloom status for sure. You must post a photo of the lucky babe all decorated up. The snow-blower thing... is that your grandpa they’re talking about?

 

[holm25]

Speaking of weird fish we eat..

Beings Fishing season ends on Thursday and I know I will not be going fishing between now and then. I have decided to clean the bait fish I had in the freezer for supper.



We should have new ones in 2 months now. They are a pain to clean when frozen whole but I hate to see them go to waste.

In the frozen ball:

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ready to eat:
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You’re not actually going to eat those are you lol

 

[Molpet]

I am fine as frog hair.

finally
someone else that uses that expression
my folks always said that and of course I do too... but no one left around here ever heard it.
Even the old timers at work asked where I got that.