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Re: Eating Redhorse?
[Re: danny clifton]
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04/09/23 10:16 PM
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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, thanks!
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Re: Eating Redhorse?
[Re: MOcoyotesJr]
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04/09/23 10:22 PM
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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.
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Re: Eating Redhorse?
[Re: Boco]
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04/09/23 10:54 PM
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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.
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Re: Eating Redhorse?
[Re: MOcoyotesJr]
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04/09/23 11:38 PM
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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.
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Re: Eating Redhorse?
[Re: MOcoyotesJr]
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04/10/23 07:18 AM
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We used to pressure can them and the bones pretty much dissolve away.Then use as you would Tuna. Cool! I wouldn't have thought of that. 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.
Last edited by upstateNY; 04/10/23 07:20 AM.
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Re: Eating Redhorse?
[Re: MOcoyotesJr]
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04/10/23 07:22 AM
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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.
I have nothing clever to put here.
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Re: Eating Redhorse?
[Re: Cibarius]
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04/10/23 07:45 PM
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I always pickle it because of the bones. Some grind it for fish balls.
Do fish have balls? (Sorry, couldn't stop myself)
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