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Best Freshwater fish for making fish oil? #8109414
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In your opinion, what fish makes the best quality oil and has a good yield to it. to be clear I am mostly (not exclusively) talking about smaller fish such as shad, bluegill, perch, or other fish of that size.

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can't have those in AL, Thanks for the suggestion though

Re: Best Freshwater fish for making fish oil? [Re: Nate776] #8109529
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Trout are some of oiliest fish. I'm not sure if you have access to them either.

From your list shad would be the best choice for most oily.

Re: Best Freshwater fish for making fish oil? [Re: Nate776] #8109559
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Of the ones you list, shad


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Re: Best Freshwater fish for making fish oil? [Re: Nate776] #8109562
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Never have tried using them for oil but I figure skipjack may work well.


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flat head catfish are good. use the fat in their abdomen


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First thing that comes to mind is lake trout! Gawd as they greasers from the Great Lakes!

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I never found it worth the time to make rendered oil. I used so much pressed from Cumberland's that I could not have made enough if I tried. The rendered stuff I did make was much more likely to bring unwanted catches like skunks, possums and cougars.

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we had 2 guys show up to the fish cleaning station in Racine WI , they were trappers and came all set to really work , they had buckets and bags and were very fast and efficient

they would clean your fish , but they wanted all the eggs , fat , guts and heads

basically everything but the fillets but if you wanted your fish hole they were happy for just the guts

as you would expect a trapper to be , these guys were pretty handy with a knife

they would stack the back of a truck with 5 gallon pails of fish parts primarily salmon and trout

obviously lure/bait makers they said they had a long coon line fisherman were very happy to let them clean their fish.

so best might be what is readily available in your area , but fatty lake trout would sure get you oil fast and no one saved the belly fat of a laker with all the pcb warnings least not in Racine


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those two guys were getting it done!

Re: Best Freshwater fish for making fish oil? [Re: Nate776] #8109741
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Smelt would be my first choice.


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Re: Best Freshwater fish for making fish oil? [Re: Nate776] #8109791
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I'd like to try a 5 gallon pail of mud minnows just once....


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Thanks

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