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Post by RAF on Jul 15, 2008 22:21:30 GMT -5
Due to several circumstances I just haven't had a chance to get on the water with a rod in my hands. Finally, this past weekend I was able to get out. The previous 2 days saw a cold front move through and wind stirred up the lake and the fish but Sunday was calm, sunny and warm. Fishing was slow but did manage a limit of walleye. Missed a few along the way. I was a bit rusty on the hook set but it all came back to me  . The fish were taken to shore, filleted and givin a bath in some hot melted butter ;D. |
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Post by tar12 on Jul 16, 2008 19:12:39 GMT -5
Sounds good! I envy you guys who have walleye at their disposal.They are some fine eating!I used to visit a little eatry in town that bought fresh walleye weekly from a outfit who came down from the lakes.All you could eat! Awesome place...
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Post by RAF on Jul 27, 2008 22:29:34 GMT -5
Today was another day to eat fresh walleye . Caught lots but only kept 2 for my wife and I for lunch. Talk about fresh. I brought them in to the cabin in my live well. From the live well they went to my filleting board. Put a knife to them, and within minutes they had been rolled in flour and seasonings and were basking in hot butter. I think they were still moving in the frying pan  |
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Post by ufosa on Oct 24, 2008 18:51:19 GMT -5
Never had Walleye, Yellow Perch are just as good I'm told. Had lots of YP. Have you ever seen a Largemouth/Smallmouth Hybrid? I caught two a couple of years ago in the Hudson River ar Rhinecliff, right off the dock. Very interesting looking. The jaw joint is even with the eye and the lateral line is not really a line. More like dots above, below and on the actual line. A DEC guy told me I was crazy, that hybid bass can't happen in nature. I laughed in his face and said, yeah, just like there's no cougar in the Catskills either, right? We ALL know there are cougar there. Many hunters and hikers have seen them. RICH....
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Post by RAF on Oct 24, 2008 21:16:21 GMT -5
Large mouth and small mouth do no occur naturally in my part of the world but there are some stock in the south east corner of the province. I'm told the DNR also has tried stalking them in some other lakes but don't know how that turned out.
Yes, yellow perch are similar in taste to walleye. Some say there even sweater. They should be similar since the walleye is part of the perch family. As far as taste it's a matter of preference and taste. I've caught them through the ice and they are good.
Now with regards to cougars. We had one walk into the city a few weeks ago. Must have come in along the river valley. Authorities ended up have to shoot it. Too bad but it just doesn't belong in a city of 230,000 people and in a neighborhood full of children.
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petev
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Post by petev on Jan 7, 2009 17:50:24 GMT -5
ufosa, I just read your post by chance. Living on the western edge of the Catskills, many people have claimed to have seen cougars, both black and tan in color. A ranger who overwintered with his wife at Duck Hole in the heart of the Adirondacks said they saw one chase a deer across the clearing near their cabin and the flagpole. That conversation was in 1974. I saw what checked out to be a Canadian Lynx track this fall, and other people have seen them. Someone else saw something that no-one could identify, until he took his family to the Museum of Natural History in New York, and he saw an exhibit of a wolverine, and he knew what he had seen. Incidentally, this same individual claimed years ago, I guess in the 80's, that he had seen a bald eagle, and no-one believed him, then he saw another and got a picture. Well, now they are common here, and there are about 4 nests within 5 miles of here.
Well, I guess this is a fishing forum, so I might add that yesterday I caught a 28". 8lb. steelhead up at Pulaski N.Y. near Lake Ontario. I might post a picture soon. Nice clean fish.
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. The fish were taken to shore, filleted and givin a bath in some hot melted butter ;D. 
