Anyone ever eaten / prepared northern studfish? Wife caught several large enough to eat yesterday if treated like smelt. They were very abundant and easy to catch.
preparing northern studfish for table
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Posted 27 September 2009 - 04:27 PM
Anyone ever eaten / prepared northern studfish? Wife caught several large enough to eat yesterday if treated like smelt. They were very abundant and easy to catch.
Interesting, I never heard of people eating these little nongame fish before. It makes me wonder how killies, darters, shiners, sculpins, suckers, etc. taste
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Posted 27 September 2009 - 04:35 PM
Sculpin is actually quite good, though most fishermen will tell you they're garbage (because everyone always says they're garbage and nobody's ever tried). They're on the small side and hard to prepare though. Really all you can do is boil them and suck the meat off the bones.
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Posted 27 September 2009 - 04:55 PM
You can cook sculpin on a skewer, too, probably the best way. Stonerollers are good too, especially the large breeders. In parts of east Tennessee local people much prefer stonerollers to trout, and resent that the state stocks trout in otherwise perfectly good stoneroller water. They have my support!
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Posted 28 September 2009 - 07:43 PM
Anyone ever eaten / prepared northern studfish? Wife caught several large enough to eat yesterday if treated like smelt. They were very abundant and easy to catch.
Lets try it and also catch and eat all those big Logperch we catch.. If theres any big studs left in the production ponds lets eat them.... Also what other smaller species have people eatin on here? I hear golden shiners not bad..
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Posted 07 October 2009 - 01:39 PM
Anyone ever eaten / prepared northern studfish? Wife caught several large enough to eat yesterday if treated like smelt. They were very abundant and easy to catch.
I have one in my tank I'd like to cook. He is getting big and chases my Warpaint Shiner all day long. He doesn't bother any other fish, just the Warpaint...I think he'll find the inside of the freezer.
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Posted 26 May 2010 - 10:47 AM
Interesting, I never heard of people eating these little nongame fish before. It makes me wonder how killies, darters, shiners, sculpins, suckers, etc. taste
Sucker is best caught in the spring spawning run (tastes less muddy then) and boiled, flaked & turned into fish cakes. Atleast thats how its done here in Pennsylvania.
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