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Title: Pickerel
Post by: BrianF on Jan 16, 2013, 09:40 PM: I'd assume most pike recipes will work with pickerel but wondering if anyone has any suggestions? A friend cooks them by removing the center spine then steaking them. Then soaks them in milk for some time before deep frying them. He uses a high temp that denigrates all the small bones. Tasted awesome and never thought I would ever like picks.

Interested if anyone has any other neat tips on cooking them. Thanks.
Title: Re: Pickerel
Post by: dave b. on Jan 17, 2013, 09:00 AM: Pickerel are good eating. The bones are the issue. I have filleted the m and ground up the fillets and made fish cakes out of them. I think I used a fish cake recipe I found here on the shanty. Do a search on here and you can find some recipes and advice for dealing with the bones.
Title: Re: Pickerel
Post by: RAU on Jan 17, 2013, 11:23 AM: If you like pickled fish pickle em, the vinegar completelly disolves the bones.
Title: Re: Pickerel
Post by: RNsurfnturf on Jan 17, 2013, 09:18 PM: grinder works well for anything like that....smallest die possible...ive done it with pike , pickerel , smaller panfish if i had alot of them ...the bones hang up in the die......grind them a couple times then mix up with breadcrumbs as filler and egg an any seasonig you want ....ive deep fried them and baked them......
Title: Re: Pickerel
Post by: Doitnow on Jan 18, 2013, 10:02 PM: Smoke'em if you Got'em They smoke good, cut them 1 1/2 inches, brine them 12 hrs. smoke 3 hrs. 1 1/2 cups hickory
Title: Re: Pickerel
Post by: Whopper Stopper on Jan 19, 2013, 08:39 AM: All the little snakes we get go into the pickel barrel. Pretty dang good! ;)

WS
Title: Re: Pickerel
Post by: RIVERRAT2 on Feb 05, 2013, 12:58 PM: Quote from: Whopper Stopper on Jan 19, 2013, 08:39 AM
All the little snakes we get go into the pickel barrel. Pretty dang good! ;)

WS
i pickle all the ones i get,i think they are better then herring
;D ;D ;D
RAT
Title: Re: Pickerel
Post by: Fire~n~Ice on Mar 05, 2013, 05:01 AM: Foe years I listened to everyone tell me how pickerel are trash fish and not worth anything. Then one day I saw a recipe on here for pickling em........ Now I purposely fish for them early in the season so I have jars of spicy pickled pickerel to snack on while I'm fishing!! I love them - I pickle mine with lots of onions and hot peppers........Only problem now is finding the buggers! Like anything - once I decide thats what I want I can't catch em! ;)
Title: Re: Pickerel
Post by: perchnut on Mar 05, 2013, 09:58 AM: I'll 3rd or 4th the motion on pickling them. Very tasty. Just had company over this weekend, and almost cleaned my jar out. Hopefully I can get out and catch a few more of those buggers.