I don't know of any carp festivals, but this one is probably just as good: www.eelpoutfestival.com <http://www.eelpoutfestival.com/> I wonder if there is such a thing as "Asian Eelpout"? And as an alternative to smoking carp, I offer: PROPERLY PREPARED CARP 1 Dressed Carp (3-4 lb.) with head still on 1 16" x24" Redwood Board 1 Tsp Pepper 2 Tbsp Lemon Juice 2 Tbsp Butter 12-16 Special heat retaining aluminum cooking nails Mix pepper and lemon juice thoroughly and brush on inside and outside of fish. Dab butter on inside of fish. Nail fish to Redwood board using special cooking nails as required, spacing nails 1" apart down middle of fish. (Heads of nails should be at the surface of the fish, but should not penetrate the skin.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake fish for 45 minutes. Remove fish and nails from Redwood board. Throw away fish. Eat the Redwood board. Serves 4 Lars *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Lars <llars_at_earthlink.net> wrote: > I don't know of any carp festivals, but this one is probably just as good: > Whatever an eelprout is my guess is that it should be pretty hardy. The high temperature for today in Walker, Minnesota (the home of the Eelprout Festival) will be +5F today and then plunge to -12F overnight. And it gets worse. Plus snow. None of this may impress Lars, but it certainly got *my* attention. LOL > > Eat the Redwood board. Serves 4 > I've tried redwood... it's not as tasty as you'd think. If you are the adventurous sort (and I'm thinking that all Paddlewisers are the adventurous sort) you can join Carp USA which is a national organization devoted to catching carp. Membership is free. http://www.carp-usa.info/ Once you've caught your carp you really can eat it. Here ( http://www.bassonhook.com/fishforfood/carprecipes.html ) are some yummy recipes. Seriously. In fact, googling for "carp recipe" elicits a whole plethora of sites. So, in short, there is no reason to put up with carp. All we need to do is change our way of thinking about them. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA (frozen with hockey players out there and ice fishing shacks) www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
[Please remove all old content that is not pertinent to your reply including old headers and footers. It's list policy.... this post was modified to meet policy] The eelpout is a local name for the burbot. In MN, it is a generally disrespected fish -- and wrongly so; it is more "appreciated" in other parts. And Craig, keep in mind that the outside temp doesn't matter to the eelpout, because they are toasty warm at 39 degrees F (4 degrees C for some of you) swimming around under the ice. Regarding redwood, I've never tried it, but do recall a canoe trip down the St. Croix River from my younger days. We camped on an island and set up camp while the pyromaniac in our group took a canoe and handsaw and came back a while later with a canoe full of firewood. We had brought steaks in the cooler along with a portable grate to set over the fire to grill them. Unfortunately, it turns out that our friend had cut up a dead cedar tree, and that flavor was totally and completely absorbed into the steaks during grilling. As I recall, the kindest description made of the meal was "interesting". For those of you that know what a cedar chest or a cedar closet smells like, well that was our flavor de jour on that trip. After that, any time we planned to have steaks on a trip, we always brought along a small bag of match-light charcoal. Lars -----Original Message----- >From Craig Jungers On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Lars <llars_at_earthlink.net> wrote: > I don't know of any carp festivals, but this one is probably just as good: > Whatever an eelprout is my guess is that it should be pretty hardy. The high temperature for today in Walker, Minnesota (the home of the Eelprout Festival) will be +5F today and then plunge to -12F overnight. And it gets worse. Plus snow. None of this may impress Lars, but it certainly got *my* attention. LOL > > Eat the Redwood board. Serves 4 > I've tried redwood... it's not as tasty as you'd think. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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