I haven’t been able to get out on the ice in the past few weeks, so I haven’t had any ice fishing stories to tell. However, in talking with my buddy, Dan, he recalled an amazing story that happened to him and one of his friends while ice fishing in Northern Minnesota several years [...]
Welcome to 2010!
The beginning of each year brings New Year’s resolutions. I’m not much for resolutions as they tend to become broken promises. However, goals are more realistic and give you something to strive for. Here are mine for 2010:
Fish 40 days out of the year (28 in 2009)
Have patience to try [...]
Thanx to my diligence in using FishSwami this year, I have a summary of my fishing excursions for 2009. Here are the results:
Days Fished: 28
Fish Caught: 29
Locations Fished: 7
Patterns Fished: 6
Most fish caught in one day: 3 on June 14th
Northern Pike: 10
Smallmouth Bass: 9
Largemouth Bass: 7
Walleye: 1
Muskie: 0
These probably aren’t very impressive numbers to [...]
The results are in. And nobody was voted off!
After letting our Northern simmer and stew in pickling brine for the minimum 8 days (we were impatient), we finally got to try some. They turned out great! The taste and texture was just like pickled herring.
The difference was that our pickled Northern, especially [...]
I know you’re as anxious to hear how our pickled Northern turned out as I am to try them. I’ve got a few more days to wait, but in the meantime, here’s the Pickled Northern recipe all in one place (click on the step link to see my result):
Pickled Northern
Step 1:
Cut 60 to 75 [...]
After soaking our Northern Pike for 24 hours, we were now ready to finish the recipe. My wife did step 3 without me:
Boil together for 5 minutes the following ingredients:
1 1/2 cup of sugar
3 cups of white vinegar
4 bay leafs
1 tsp whole all spice
3 tsp mustard seed
1 1/2 tsp whole black pepper
6 to 7 [...]
Forty-eight hours after step 1 of our Pickled Northern Pike recipe, we moved on to step 2:
Pour off salt water, rinse
Soak fish in white vinegar for 24 hours
Drain vinegar off – discard
The fish had changed color due to the brine soak. It was a little more translucent.
Rinsed and ready for vinegar.
Extreme close-up!
Fish chunks in [...]
I’ve never been a big fan of Northern Pike. I’m not really a catch-and-release fisherman (except when it comes to muskie), so I like to eat what I catch. But Northern aren’t what I would call a delicacy. Their many, many tiny bones and fishy smell make them one of the less [...]
The scene opens with a view of the lake. A dock is in the foreground, a full moon shining brightly in the night sky. The reflection of the moon paints a path to the dock, empty except for a bench made for two. The sound of a crackling fire can be heard [...]
[In honor of Halloween, I thought you might like to hear about a story among our family of a legend on the Gunflint Trail.]
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a young fisherman who caught his very first walleye in Poplar Lake. He was very excited, but he caught it late [...]
