why can't you eat tulibee

[greenbush]

My dad was wondering why you can't eat tulibee. He says they are like white fish. I told him they are full of bones and are more like a sucker fish. So after another rum he says why can't you eat them. He also said they use to catch them 50 years ag and never eat them then. Any answers 

[fishin buddy]

tulibees are full of lil parasites if you cut them open,unlike the white fish which you can eat. 

[Big Burk]

up north they eat them but not down in the souther part of the province. my uncle said you can take cut them open use the parasites for bait and use the cisco for pike bait after you take some bugs outta them. anyone heard of this

[SK Justin]

Tullibee get parasites in some lakes, but not all of them. The same goes for the closely related whitefish.

[flockshot]

ive eaten them...ive never seen the parasites that you guys in sask always talk about...they are a little oily for my taste..most of the time i send them back down the hole.

[RLWagner]

In S.E. MI i have caught them in a number of lakes, and have even targeted tham at night with Swedish Pimples with some success. They taste a bit fishy, never seen parasites. Have friends that love to Smoke them. I now hope to catch them because they are great Gator bait.

[Water Wolf]

I am not sure about North and Central Sask. but in the south they are usually infected with a tapeworm larvae that buries it's self into the meat of tullibee / cisco.

I am not sure if I would want to be handling the tapeworm larvae directly, a person may also encounter tapeworm eggs inside the fish and you would not want that to get into your system.

I wouldn't want to transport them to other lakes eather but they could be used in the water they came out of.

WW

[BottomDweller]

we don't eat them here because they are considered lake-trout crack . $5 for a 5 in long cisco.  i've never used them, of course

[MeadowPikeman]

can buy em here too, 5 bucks for 5 fish about 5-6" on length

[Mr.Sodus]

Give 'im another rum, he'll eat anything.
Oily or squirmin'.

[callmaster]

Hello. First time poster. Just curious as to why I only see tulibee when Iam ice fishing. I have NEVER seen one fising from a boat or shore in the spring/summer...

Thanks

[BottomDweller]

right now is when they "run," or breed, and i assume that is where they come up into shallow water.

[anglerbrian]

There are at least 15 species of Tullibee, unfortunately the ones most common in Sask are not good eating. You can read more here.    http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/zone/underwater_sous-marin/cisco/tullibee-hareng_e.htm

[saskman]

how can you tell the diffrence between the 2 is it by the mouth IE the whites have that nub on there upper lip and the cisco dont?

[MeadowPikeman]

over bite is a whitefish under bite is a tulibee, they spawn in late fall like the end of october, not in the middle of winter.

[BottomDweller]

...they spawn in late fall like the end of october, not in the middle of winter.

they're spawning right now in bear lake in northern utah.  maybe it occurs different times for different places....

[MeadowPikeman]

ooops i thought you were from saskatchewan my bad i think they start spawning when the water temp is in the low mid to low forties, which is sometime in october in most saskatchewan lakes.

[1Bushman]

I've eaten Tullibee, & preferred it over the fattier Whitefish.  In addition, the Website Info taken from one of the above (BottomDweller) replies also indicate Tullibee are eatable, "The tullibee (Coregonus artedii complex), also known as the cisco and lake herring, is a small relative of the whitefish, and like the whitefish is endowed with a delicate flesh of excellent flavour.  Tullibee is marketed in the form of headon, dressed whole fish, very often smoked. A minor quantity is minced and shipped in frozen block form to the United States for further processing".

[The Beachcomber]

I've eaten Tullibee, & preferred it over the fattier Whitefish.  In addition, the Website Info taken from one of the above (BottomDweller) replies also indicate Tullibee are eatable, "The tullibee (Coregonus artedii complex), also known as the cisco and lake herring, is a small relative of the whitefish, and like the whitefish is endowed with a delicate flesh of excellent flavour.  Tullibee is marketed in the form of headon, dressed whole fish, very often smoked. A minor quantity is minced and shipped in frozen block form to the United States for further processing".

Very Interesting, never tried it but now I may have to catch look for it when I am in the US next time!  Too bad that the Sasky type are have those parasites, don't want to mess around with that stuff.  Any lakes in central or northern sask that have tullibe in them? I am from Saskatoon and never have caught them!

Thanks for the info

[MeadowPikeman]

pretty much every shield lake has loads of them, besnard has millions of the little buggers

[buzzbomb]

I've eaten them, but they take a little preparation.  If you fillet them and candle them with a floodlight you can see all the little eggs and larvae and they're easy to cut out.  I bought a boxfull from somebody years ago for 10 cents a pound and split them with my friend who had a smoker.  Some people said they were smoked too much, some people said they weren't smoked enough, and the lady from Pine House said they were just right!   The ones from up north don't have the parasites, apparently, and Safeway tried marketing smoked tullibees about 25 years ago.  They didn't sell, maybe because they are a little oily.  One hard year when I didn't get a deer I lived on fish and rabbits all winter and ate d**ned near everything that lives in Last Mountain, and tullibees weren't the worst thing I had.

[ice man]

Ya, I think I've heard enough not to even bother trying to eat them. I don't mind whitefish, prefer pike.

[MeadowPikeman]

if tulibees are not the worst then what was??

[bigdog853]

gotta be carp   

[MeadowPikeman]

mmmmmmmmmm carp i heard buffalofish are actually good to eat not like carp.