Has anyone ate redhorse? I'm gonna try it tomorrow.

how will you cook it?

I always pickle it because of the bones. Some grind it for fish balls.

I'm gonna fry it in oil

I cut out most of the bones

I usually pickle them too.. I have had it ground and fried as fish balls. I've also smoke them but it's been awhile since done that.


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We used to pressure can them and the bones pretty much dissolve away.Then use as you would Tuna.

What do they taste like?

Great cage trap bait.

I pickled a bunch in 2020 with no school the boys were down at the river every day catching them

Cool! I wouldn't have thought of that.

I have eaten redhorse of various species my whole life. I treated them the same as any other sucker, usually canned or smoked. They are also very good fried or baked. The bones can turn off some folks, but their meat is mild, white flakey stuff. One favorite method was to gut and toss some onions in their cavity, along with butter and salt/pepper, wrap in tinfoil and toss in the coals of your riverbank fire until done. it is excellent eats. They can grow to trophy size too, usually much larger than our other two commonly taken Great Lakes area sucker types..........those being the Northern Longnose and the White sucker.

I've eaten them smoked, ground into fish patties(heavily seasoned) and as the veggies they grow when buried in the garden. Best when taken from cold/clean waters.

how to destroy Y bones in sucker fish. youtube.

My Grandmother canned a lot of sucker fish, venison and chicken it looked gross but tasted good.

Cool, Thanks!

I caught them in a super clear creek

Thanks!

I never canned suckers but canned lots of other species. I pack pint jars with as much as I can get in. Add a 1/2 teaspoon of non iodized salt and pressure them for 1 1/2 hours. To eat we add 1 egg per pint and crushed into meal saltine crackers. Add enough crackers meal to thicken it up some. Make patties and fry them. Sometimes I put miracle whip on them in a hamburger bun. I tried cheese but it doesn't go with fish patties to good.

Cool!

Cool, thanks!

They are edible out of cold water.Meat is mushy from warm water.
Lots of small bones,and I dont like eating fish with bones.
Lots of better fish to eat here.
Mink trappers net,snag and spear them when they run in spring and freeze them in burlap bags for mink bait in fall and early winter.
Sucker minnows is great bair for pickerel,pike and sturgeon.

Right now redhorse is the only fish that is legal to keep in the creek I caught them in.

I've gutted them , made a green willow basket type holder , and cooked over an open fire.
Was good eating, my dad tried some and said all it needed was a little salt.
Ate a lot of them in my youth in Michigan.
As a kid it was about all I caught , while after trout.

ate and can a lot of them

Score the fillet like buffalo fish

We used to soak them in a salt Brine and then Smoke them. They were great.

We would spear them by the buckets full at night when they ran the creeks in the spring.Fillet them out to get rid of most of the bones.Then pressure canning them dissolves what few bones are left.Mixed with some Mayonaise,,salt and pepper,,we made "Tuna" sammiches out of them.Both Red Horse and regular Suckers.Ours are well over twice the size as the one in your picture.

Smoke them and then afterwards, peel them off the skin and pack in pint jars with a teaspoon of vegetable oil and pressure cook. It tastes like fresh smoked fish and the smaller bones will dissolve.

Score it. Roll in cornmeal fry in hot oil and enjoy.

I haven’t been that hungry….yet.

I only eat it Smoked

Exactly
They are excellent

scored & deep fried the bones will turn to mush. fine eats. cold water is key as mentioned.

I enjoy catching them. You have to set the hook before they spit it out. I used bits of white clam meat so I could see when they picked it up.
They don't fight all that good. Sorta like reeling in a marital aid device set on high.

Do fish have balls?
(Sorry, couldn't stop myself)