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I tried it again, and it sucked. As long as them Swedes out in the woods keep making this stuff, I'm just gonna quit trying...(Image removed from quote.)
Reb;Get rid of that saltine and get a box of ritz or the wally world butter rounds. Much better. Pickled pike is my number 1 way to use a pike. Dont care for them cooked any way so far. Boiling it is pretty good too. Steve
Pffft.... saltine is the way to go.and real men park it on top of kraut!(Image removed from quote.)Thats Mexico meets Finland meets Germany.... Kraut, herring, tortilla chip....Makes my house smell FUNNY.
Reb, oops sorry about that Skipper, there is something seriously wrong with that tortilla kraut and pickled fish idea. We have a local rabbit club feed this spring and I always take a gallon of pickled fish. I am gonna take a jar of kraut and bag of chips and see who has the nads to try em. Might be a good "hangover cure". I think it would clean you out one way or another. Steve
How about the Y bones when you pickle your pike? Do you still take them out or not? My neighbor pickled some small northern last year said he just filleted them out like normal fish and did not take the Y bones out. put them in the brine did all you need to do to pickle them and it more or less dissolved the bones. I had some and there were not any bones in it so I am thinking that is what happend. I have some we got yesterday and want to try to pickle them for the first time here and thought i would ask. see some good recipes and going to give it a try here in the next day or so, hope it turns out. The fish we are going to use were small pike 18inches or so i would say if you use a really big fish I am thinking the y bones would be too big to dissolve then.