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IceShanty Main => General Ice Fishing Chit Chat => Topic started by: WARRIOR_ON_ICE on Apr 13, 2022, 07:17 PM
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I was at the supermarket an hour ago and saw haddock fillets for $ 15.99 / pound. I passed as it could never be as fresh as what I pull through the ice. Besides ice fishing being a fantastically enjoyable way to spend time, there is a serious economic component to it that can't be ignored. If you love to eat fish as I do, on a ay that you are fortunate enough to harvest enough to yield 10 pounds of fillets that are equivalent to haddock, you save $ 160
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Save plenty catching fresh fish north of '49' as well. Large grocery chain has walleye fillets at $55/kg (that's $25/lb) CDN.
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You really don’t want to hear about the price of snow and king crab!!!
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must be an east coast thing? our store had haddock 5.99# 2 weeks ago. they had sold out when i went there and were selling the cod as substitute. so i bought 4 more pounds than i went in for. lol
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Save plenty catching fresh fish north of '49' as well. Large grocery chain has walleye fillets at $55/kg (that's $25/lb) CDN.
Wow on that walleye price. More motivation to keep catching your own. How is a place legally able to sell a fish that has creel limits ? Maybe the law in Manitoba is different than here in NY. Any fish with a creel limit can not be legally sold, they are for personal consumption only. Or maybe the walleye that you saw is farm raised ? Interesting.
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You really don’t want to hear about the price of snow and king crab!!!
I am not even a fan of crab meat and don't eat it at any price. For shellfish, I stick with shrimp, and who doesn't eat shrimp, and I will splurge and pay the high price for the big scallops once or twice a year. You can't have any better seafood than pan seared scallops and so at $ 16 / pound I have to splurge every so often on them. ;D
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Wow on that walleye price. More motivation to keep catching your own. How is a place legally able to sell a fish that has creel limits ? Maybe the law in Manitoba is different than here in NY. Any fish with a creel limit can not be legally sold, they are for personal consumption only. Or maybe the walleye that you saw is farm raised ? Interesting.
In NY , perch can be legally sold whole
Perch fillets in NY go from $15.00 and up
There are still 3 active netting licenses in Jefferson county
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Cod/haddock here was a 1 lb pkg for $6.99 last week. I like the cod better, thicker and firmer.
Walleye is big here, both to catch and buy. On most good restaurant menus. Our ridiculous limit right now is TWO on most waters; but you can buy all the walleye fillets you want in a store. The native Americans here can net all they want; no limits....a huge battle that's been going on for years. From a Minnesota website:
The majority of walleye are imported from Canadian and tribal fisheries.
On a pkg I have of them, it says "fresh caught walleye from northern waters"........... ???
All the grocers sell them, Cub Foods sells a lot..
https://storefront.cub.com/sm/pickup/rsid/1612/product/cub-fresh-water-walleye-fillets-16oz-00061656304072
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Looks like I'll need to do more fish harvesting to put onto the table. I also think about the gas used to get to the fishing spot and back. $40-50 for gas didn't seem worth it a year or two ago, but now seems worth it.
I saw a bag of dungeness crabs going for $45 a bag. Didn't look to see if that was a 16 oz or 12 oz in weight.
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Ah, just get the crab sandwich at Arby's......they have the meats! ;)
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Ah, just get the crab sandwich at Arby's......they have the meats! ;)
is that real crab meat ot the imitation stuff?
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That was just a poke at Slipperybob.....I don't think they have crab at Barbee's.
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Walleye is big here, both to catch and buy. On most good restaurant menus.
Same here, but not just "good " restaurants, even the local "fish and chicken" shacks around here have walleye on the menu. Yesterday, I drove past a Culver's who was advertising a walleye dinner. I don't know if it's available in stores, fresh or frozen, never looked but assuming it would be.
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I've had that at Culvers here. Danged good. But around here, it's batter fried, usually a beer batter, and spendy.
A few places advertise "Walleye fingers', but I really doubt that they're walleye. Most common way you've ever been able to get it here.....off of one of the "middle of the road" restaurants. Casual places don't have anything but fish sandwiches here for some reason, and a lot of the spendier places don't even have it. Years ago, every decent restaurant had walleye on the menu, and shrimp. Batter-fried shrimp is a real rarity now. It's all that breaded crap. No good beer batters. I grew up working in my family's restaurant.
Canadian Honker Restaurant
Served with soup or salad, and your choice of baked potato, au gratin potatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy, or rice pilaf.
Fresh Water Canadian Walleye
#1 selling Entrée! Prepared one of five ways; batter fried, broiled with butter and lightly seasoned, parmesan encrusted, almond encrusted, or lemon lime seared. $26.99
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I've had that at Culvers here. Danged good. But around here, it's batter fried, usually a beer batter, and spendy.
A few places advertise "Walleye fingers', but I really doubt that they're walleye. Most common way you've ever been able to get it here.....off of one of the "middle of the road" restaurants. Casual places don't have anything but fish sandwiches here for some reason, and a lot of the spendier places don't even have it. Years ago, every decent restaurant had walleye on the menu, and shrimp. Batter-fried shrimp is a real rarity now. It's all that breaded crap. No good beer batters. I grew up working in my family's restaurant.
Canadian Honker Restaurant
Served with soup or salad, and your choice of baked potato, au gratin potatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy, or rice pilaf.
Fresh Water Canadian Walleye
#1 selling Entrée! Prepared one of five ways; batter fried, broiled with butter and lightly seasoned, parmesan encrusted, almond encrusted, or lemon lime seared. $26.99
Dam, glad I learned to catch and cook them.
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There's a place in St. Paul, Minnesota, that I go to just for walleye, when I'm up there.....it's all about walleye. Pretty famous restaurant for Minnesota, since our state fish is the Walleye. I love the place. Terrific food. Check out their walleye menu...not lacking there; even take home fillets! :woot:
http://www.thetavernongrand.com/our-menu.html
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Had me some walleye,walleye wings and cheeks for dinner tonight.
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Fish candy! Those cheeks are great! :P
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I’m glad I like fish ,I try and keep my freezer stocked with perch and walleyes and a few stream trout
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I did well with catching Lake Trout and Salmon this year and have a freeze full. Enough to last me till ice season next year..
IW
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There's a place in St. Paul, Minnesota, that I go to just for walleye, when I'm up there.....it's all about walleye. Pretty famous restaurant for Minnesota, since our state fish is the Walleye. I love the place. Terrific food. Check out their walleye menu...not lacking there; even take home fillets! :woot:
http://www.thetavernongrand.com/our-menu.html
WOW!
I need this place closer to me!! I would eat there everyday!
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Their menu sounds great
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I can attest to the fact that it is. *urp* : :P
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Thank you guys for all of the replies. There were a lot of replies mentioning walleye eating, but unfortunately I have caught only a handful of these in my entire life. I love to eat crappie, perch, and pike in that order of the fish that I do catch with regularity. I also like smoked lake trout when I am lucky enough to get one. I don't fish very much anymore in laker habitat.
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Thank you guys for all of the replies. There were a lot of replies mentioning walleye eating, but unfortunately I have caught only a handful of these in my entire life. I love to eat crappie, perch, and pike in that order of the fish that I do catch with regularity. I also like smoked lake trout when I am lucky enough to get one. I don't fish very much anymore in laker habitat.
You should fish with your nephew more, they've been getting a lot of Lake Trout.
IW
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MY Wife saw Walleye at Sam's for $11.00/lb. Michigan.
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Cub foods has Cod fillets at $13 a lb.... :pinch:
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Rebless
Culvers only has walleye during lent and then only while their supply lasts. It comes from Canada. I am friends with a district manager for Culvers. He covers Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. I do not know if he jumps the river into Minnisoter.
I will ask him tonight if I can get him on the phone to see if he got a turkey as he is hunting in Wis for a couple of days.
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I'll eat the cod sandwich then from now on.
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That was just a poke at Slipperybob.....I don't think they have crab at Barbee's.
LOL. It's gonna be high priced imitation stuff. LOL.
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Mickey's Dee's has filets made outta sponges! :woot:
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So i went to our other house that is supposed to be closed on today at 430.anyways we left a brand new fancy stainless fridge in the house .i opened the door and about puked.its completely empty or so i thought but underneath the removable bottom crisper tray was a rotten package of imitation crab.ugh.
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Omg 🤢
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EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! Catfish bait!!!!!!!!! :woot:
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It was in there months before we left even..olady kept saying it was my cured salmon eggs.i took those to other house and never thought about it again until i opened the fridge this morning.almost as bad when i was in the hospital for 10 days for diverticulitis and came home and smelled garbage,looked over saw the freezer was unplugged.opened that and did puke,my vacuum sealed sucker cut bait was bloated along with a turkey and salmon skeins.
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Funny yer house wasn't totally surrounded in cats..... "Honey, c'mere for a sec".....;D
(https://i.postimg.cc/R6x2VPpj/Cat-Army-Beauty.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/R6x2VPpj)
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Funny yer house wasn't totally surrounded in cats..... "Honey, c'mere for a sec".....;D
(https://i.postimg.cc/R6x2VPpj/Cat-Army-Beauty.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/R6x2VPpj)
The other white meat 😜
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Funny yer house wasn't totally surrounded in cats..... "Honey, c'mere for a sec".....;D
(https://i.postimg.cc/R6x2VPpj/Cat-Army-Beauty.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/R6x2VPpj)
The other white meat 😜
More catfish bait! Kitty's for kittys! Or, for chinee dinner...cat puffs kung pao! :woot:
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:roflmao: :roflmao:
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Wow on that walleye price. More motivation to keep catching your own. How is a place legally able to sell a fish that has creel limits ? Maybe the law in Manitoba is different than here in NY. Any fish with a creel limit can not be legally sold, they are for personal consumption only. Or maybe the walleye that you saw is farm raised ? Interesting.
You can buy frozen walleye fillets up in Jefferson county. I believe they are imported from Canada. Chaumont Hardware had them for sale in spring of 2020 for $15/lb, along with perch from Chaumont Bay.
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You can buy frozen walleye fillets up in Jefferson county. I believe they are imported from Canada. Chaumont Hardware had them for sale in spring of 2020 for $15/lb, along with perch from Chaumont Bay.
Place in oswego also sells eye fillets and yes they are Canadian fish
I’m glad I don’t have to buy perch or eyes
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Right.i dont buy any fish from the stores.living in Michigan theres a variety of fish to catch.i really only eat panfish,perch,pike,smelt and a few walleye once in awhile.maybe smoke a few salmon or steelhead.almost all are kept during icefishing except walleye and salmon/steelhead.
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I looked at some frozen cod fillets at he Mom 'n Pop yday. $8.99 lb. Since they shrink down a fair bit when broiling, and I could inhale a lb easy, I passed. ::)
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Right.i dont buy any fish from the stores.living in Michigan theres a variety of fish to catch.i really only eat panfish,perch,pike,smelt and a few walleye once in awhile.maybe smoke a few salmon or steelhead.almost all are kept during icefishing except walleye and salmon/steelhead.
I don't know about Michigan, but the freshwater fish in MA are not the healthiest fish to eat regularly. All kinds of precautions to limit consumption.
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I don't know about Michigan, but the freshwater fish in MA are not the healthiest fish to eat regularly. All kinds of precautions to limit consumption.
right. i dont stock a freezer full.we can only have a few daily possession limits per licensed person in the freezer anyways,enough for a few meals a season.pretty much theres some consumption warnings on the rivers but most lakes are pretty clean here.
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Rebelss if you are ever near Arlington MN stop by A-town Taver and try their Parmesan crusted walleye baked in their wood fired pizza ovens from Italy.
Just awesome even for $27.