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01-15-2009, 10:21 AM
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ready for any thing
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I've never had smelt, but I've had smelt eggs in sushi. What does the fish taste like? Don't say FISH!!!
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ok i wont say fish.they tast like smelts |
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01-15-2009, 11:02 AM
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A quiet, loving, Conservative
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I've never had smelt, but I've had smelt eggs in sushi. What does the fish taste like? Don't say FISH!!!
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Smelts are a light delicate white fish. Very fresh smelts smell like fresh cucumbers or watermelon. They are kind of small, a bit bony but the bones are so small you can just eat them. They are a Christmas Eve tradition in many Italian homes. They are not "fishy" tasting like cod can be, They taste more like halibut. We clean them, leave the tails on , roll them in flour or cornmeal and pan fry them in about 1/4 inch of oil. You lay the cooked smelt on it's back,pull out the backbone then just eat the whole thing ,tail, fins and all!The tail gets crunchy like a potato chip. They're really quite good!
Smelts were a real treat when we were kids. My brother was a skinny minni when he was young but my father always said the kid could eat his weight in smelts! |
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01-15-2009, 11:04 AM
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Maine is home
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Location: 26° 55′ 34″ N, 82° 21′ 35″ W
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Originally Posted by Maineah
We caught 36 smelts lastnight. No great shakes but enough to keep you interested. It will make a nice couple of meals for my buddy and his girlfriend. I'm going again tonight. I'll let you know how I do. I know you're all on the edge of your seats!
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Not only on the edge of my seat, but biting my nails! 
I'm sorry, I just can't bring myself to eat them. I can't get past the smell of them cooking. Now when the guys in the camp next to you come drop one down your smoke stack, that's always quite pleasant.  |
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01-15-2009, 11:52 AM
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A quiet, loving, Conservative
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Not only on the edge of my seat, but biting my nails!
I'm sorry, I just can't bring myself to eat them. I can't get past the smell of them cooking. Now when the guys in the camp next to you come drop one down your smoke stack, that's always quite pleasant. |
Yup there's always a few pranksters around. We don't have a stove pipe anymore.
A nit wit we know thought he was dumping water down my brother's chimney once. It was Kerosene and he damn near killed my buddy in the shack when he dumped some down the chimney! My friend was lucky only his down coat caught fire. Burned the shack to the ice in anout 5 minutes. We got revenge a bit later. Smelt Wars! |
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01-15-2009, 01:10 PM
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ready for any thing
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Yup there's always a few pranksters around. We don't have a stove pipe anymore.
A nit wit we know thought he was dumping water down my brother's chimney once. It was Kerosene and he damn near killed my buddy in the shack when he dumped some down the chimney! My friend was lucky only his down coat caught fire. Burned the shack to the ice in anout 5 minutes. We got revenge a bit later. Smelt Wars!
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i drove through an ice shack some years back with my sled.it was parked in the middle of the trail on moose head,middle of the night no reflectors on a white ice shack didnt see it till i was right on it.hunkerd down and hung on.im glad it was cheaply built.the owner couldnt get it off the trail so he left it.he had to pay a big fine and fix my sled. |
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01-15-2009, 01:12 PM
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Maine is home
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I think that must of been one of those new trail toll booths I've heard about, although maybe it was a Moosehead Starbucks drive-thru!
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01-15-2009, 01:58 PM
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Off to the shack to drown some blood worms! See Ya!
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01-15-2009, 01:59 PM
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It's all about the buttah.....
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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I think that must of been one of those new trail toll booths I've heard about, although maybe it was a Moosehead Starbucks drive-thru!
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I think I read somewhere it was the first and only smelt drive thru. It was called Ranger's Moosehead Fried Fresh Smelt Shack or something similar.... heard tell he thought about franchisin' for a bit too... |
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01-15-2009, 02:30 PM
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Real Estate Agent
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Originally Posted by CoastalMaine
I think I read somewhere it was the first and only smelt drive thru. It was called Ranger's Moosehead Fried Fresh Smelt Shack or something similar.... heard tell he thought about franchisin' for a bit too...
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...but it wasn't all it was cracked up to be...too many iceholes to deal with on the way to work. |
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01-15-2009, 05:01 PM
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Eddie Van Halen Wanna Be
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What, is the deal? do smelt only bite at night?
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