Stinkiest fish...would like your opinion!

[littleoldlady]

Having just got the...odor...of the burbot out of the kitchen, I would like your opinion on what is the smelliest fish you have ever had in your kitchen?  That is, if your significant other lets you bring them through the door!!

[HuntCast]

I cooked 10 pounds of cod in the deep fryer once.
My EX wife was real mad, lol.

[IceRover]

I don't know about the kitchen, but in the boat it is definitely Muskie and Northern. Once their filleted or steaked though they are OK.

[dewyg]

Not really a fish but I cooked some lobster inside the house once, and I heard about it for a very long time.

[oldfox]

Any oily saltwater fish, such as mackeral, bluefish, etc...better cooked out side on the grill...mho

[ejensen]

I would have to say Lutifisk hands down!!! 

Ed

[littleoldlady]

I would have to say Lutifisk hands down!!! 

Ed
[/quote Had some friend from Minnesota that tried to introduce me to this traditional dish...that one...well, I love fish and just coulddn't quite get it down..

[PGKris]

Burbot, hands down winner......stink like no other I've ever caught....

[littleoldlady]

Burbot, hands down winner......stink like no other I've ever caught....

And I would agree...had to ask Grump how to get the smell out of the kitchen sink after Sweetie cleaned his catch on Thursday..Wow, what an odor!

[MeadowPikeman]

i'd still have to vote for the good old northern nothing stinks like pike slime, like coming home from our annual septmber long pike trip and everything and everyone still smells like pike slime when we get home

[Skipper]

Suckers by far stink worse than pigs.

My freinds and me used to go dipnet them for smoking in the spring just after iceout. Once the smell gets on your hands, you will spend a week scrubbing before it starts to fade.

[perch-man]

Have cleaned lots of pike and they do have a smell Burbot I have cleaned 1500-1600 lbs at the annual Child's lake Burbot dive.They have a bit of a oder but hands down stinkest is to clean is ROCK BASS!

[Pasquatch]

Never had one inside my house,but I don't think anything can beat a Bowfin.

 

[Medson25]

nothing compares to the nasty stench of a northern pike. they even taste almost as bad as they smell

[pizalm]

burbot, in the shack they get thrown out the door right away, hook and all. Clean them on the ice before taking them home.

[littleoldlady]

nothing compares to the nasty stench of a northern pike. they even taste almost as bad as they smell

Medson25, no, no...I know northern do have that distinct bottom of the lake slimey smell....but if you fillet them carefully and don't let the flesh touch the meat...and wash each fillet thoroughly, they are excellent dipped in crumbs and browned in just a smidgen of oil.  Delicious!

[doodle]

Left a shiner in the minnow bucket in the garage for about a week during the summer. That was pretty bad.

[Thriller]

nothing compares to the nasty stench of a northern pike. they even taste almost as bad as they smell

I'm with Littleoldlady...a pike out of cold water well prepared is almost impossible to tell from walleye or perch (taste wise anyway - the size may give things away).  That being said, I don't think I'm very interested in eating any during the summer any more.

[Big E]

I've got some three week old dead smelts out in my bucket in the garage...I'm scared to go out there now.
 

[marcus]

I'm with Littleoldlady...a pike out of cold water well prepared is almost impossible to tell from walleye or perch (taste wise anyway - the size may give things away).  That being said, I don't think I'm very interested in eating any during the summer any more.

I agree   but i had never tried one during the summer and maybe now i wont .  I always remember my mom complaining when i cooked salmon inside.  I have never caught one through the ice but i think carp stinks badly

[littleoldlady]

I'm with Littleoldlady...a pike out of cold water well prepared is almost impossible to tell from walleye or perch (taste wise anyway - the size may give things away).  That being said, I don't think I'm very interested in eating any during the summer any more.

Thriller, we are lucky...Cold Lake is well named...the water temperature doesn't rise that much in the summer because it is such a deep lake (down to 300 feet)...we have taken pike out in mid-summer, and they are as firm and clean-tasting as the ones we get through the ice.  Stinky on the outside, delicious on the inside.

[WARRIOR_ON_ICE]

The channel cats out of lukewarm lake Champlain in summer are disgusting to smell, and taste about the same.

[billybono]

The channel cats out of lukewarm lake Champlain in summer are disgusting to smell, and taste about the same.

 like the salmon and trout of lake ontario year round 

  billybono

[GrnDay33]

Cahain Pickeral are a stinky nasty smelling fish...Almost need GoJo to get the stink of your hands..Ewwww Caught and released one the yesterday, and ate a hot dog a few minutes aftr..not that pleasent. GD

[ChenBassHead]

I've got some three week old dead smelts out in my bucket in the garage...I'm scared to go out there now.
 

You think that's something?  I was at college last winter, and had a big coffee can full of frozen smelt.  I took it out one day for bait, brought it back...and forgot to put it in the freezer.  It got kicked under my bed, and about a month later, I found it.  I opened it up and... The smell was gut wrenching.  Within 5 minutes, I could hear people at the opposite end of the hall yelling about the smell.  I don't think the smell went away for weeks... 

-Zach

[littleoldlady]

You think that's something?  I was at college last winter, and had a big coffee can full of frozen smelt.  I took it out one day for bait, brought it back...and forgot to put it in the freezer.  It got kicked under my bed, and about a month later, I found it.  I opened it up and... The smell was gut wrenching.  Within 5 minutes, I could hear people at the opposite end of the hall yelling about the smell.  I don't think the smell went away for weeks... 

-Zach

I think that would win the smelly fish contest.....sort of like Sweetie leaving the bait can open in the back of the RAV for two days...

[ChenBassHead]

I think that would win the smelly fish contest.....sort of like Sweetie leaving the bait can open in the back of the RAV for two days...

And to think, all those people said I'd never amount to anything! 

[littleoldlady]

  :bow:You ended up here...

[PGKris]

Go Zach! Riiiiight we're supposed to believe that was an accident!? Crazy college kids

[indeeptreble]

Obviously you guys have never smelled Lutefisk cooking before. I remember going with my Dad to a fish store in Vancover when I was a kid and the lady reaching into the wooden barrel for fresh Lutefisk and taking it home to spend the whole time it was cooking outside because it would burn my eyes