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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:36:03 PM EDT
[#1]
Eating what?
I wasn't alive 40 years ago. |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:36:17 PM EDT
[#2]
Same here, I remember my mom frying it several times a year.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:36:38 PM EDT
[#3]
People still catch and eat pier-caught Jacksmelt around here, I believe. Also Grunion are a type of smelt. I survived on Grunion one summer when I was very, very poor.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:37:52 PM EDT
[#4]
I remember having it every few weeks...sometimes mom would fry it as a snack. None of the chains carry it anymore...
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:38:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: People still catch and eat pier-caught Jacksmelt around here, I believe. Also Grunion are a type of smelt. I survived on Grunion one summer when I was very, very poor. in Cali would like to buy you a beer! |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:44:56 PM EDT
[#6]
Been many years since we seen a good run around Ithaca.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:45:50 PM EDT
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When I was a kid we'd go smelting every year. The streams were full of smelt, you'd catch your limit in an hour and freeze up what you didn't eat right away. By the early 80s the streams were nearly empty and my dad had stopped smelting
Yeah, good childhood memories |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:45:53 PM EDT
[#8]
Hell yes. Nightsmelt on the lunch special last time I was at the Ferry Building in SF.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:45:54 PM EDT
[#9]
Seasonal around here
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:45:55 PM EDT
[#10]
Had 'em all the time growing up. My dad would make them as a holdover from when he grew up piss poor and grandma made them.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:46:34 PM EDT
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Kinda like fried mullet over here on the gulf, it was a staple at weekend cookouts, beach vacations, etc. Rarely see or hear of anyone cooking it like that themselves anymore. People buy and serve smoked mullet dip by the semi-truck load though (delicious).
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:46:55 PM EDT
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Quoted: Is it still out there? Anyone eat it? 
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:48:34 PM EDT
[#13]
 Great Depression Cooking - Fried Fish |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:48:45 PM EDT
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For us, smelt were something we caught. We'd head north to Lake Superior and catch them with nets. Pack away a bazillion of them. Churches also had smelt fries as fund-raisers. Never bought them in the stores.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:50:34 PM EDT
[#15]
We used to have smelt nights too.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:51:15 PM EDT
[#16]
Taste great deep fried dredged in flour and salt and a touch of ground pepper
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:51:32 PM EDT
[#17]
yup. remember it fondly. College. Pilgrim River (Houghton, MI). 5 gallon buckets. Shitload of Old Mud and the Beast (Milwaukee Best)
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:51:49 PM EDT
[#18]
If I recall correctly my youth, "he who smelt it, dealt it."
So there's that. |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:52:06 PM EDT
[#19]
Was smelt for the poors back then?
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:52:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:56:08 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Was smelt for the poors back then? |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:58:19 PM EDT
[#22]
All the time. We net them out of superior every spring. I have about 8 pounds left in the chest freezer. Only thing that sucks is cleaning them.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:59:41 PM EDT
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Is that the goldfish sized fish fried with heads, guts, bones, shit and all included? (not cleaned/gutted)?
If so, fuck that. No wonder we don't see it any more. We're not in a fucking famine or societal collapse (yet!). We currently don't see rats, locust, grasshoppers, pine bark and sawdust bread, etc. Maybe its a regional thing, but unless I'm out of survival rice and the freedom garden has been flooded, I'm not eating fish shit and guts. Particularly with the trout I can pull out of the river here on demand. |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 10:59:46 PM EDT
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We would go after them when they started running in chicago. Go down to the 'rocks' late afternoon, throw that homemade anchor out as far as we could, set up the 5 gallon that was filled w/ cement and had a pole in the middle, attach the line from the anchor to the top of the pole, start setting the net rollers onto the line.
Let the net slide down, wait a while, pull the net back up, pull the smelt, clean them at the water, let the net back out. My brother and I were down there one night, freezing cold, when we walked to the edge to pull up the net a rogue wave hit the wall and hosed both of us. |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:01:24 PM EDT
[#25]
My dad used to go smelting every year with a bunch of guys. I remember them coming home with large freezers full of them. I lived eating fried smelt on some buttered toast.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:05:12 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: All the time. We net them out of superior every spring. I have about 8 pounds left in the chest freezer. Only thing that sucks is cleaning them. Are you talking about the small smelt? Just throw them inthe frying pan , no cleaning that I'm aware of for them. 
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:12:30 PM EDT
[#27]
Used to buy them all the time.
For bait. Ice fishing for northern pike, smelt was the goto bait. Never have eaten one though. |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:14:35 PM EDT
[#28]
Try Asian markets
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:15:14 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: All the time. We net them out of superior every spring. I have about 8 pounds left in the chest freezer. Only thing that sucks is cleaning them. @PikeSlayer I think the Great Lakes region is about the only one that has them left. Around here, I did smelting about 25 years ago. The problem is the state has stocked so many trout into so many ponds that it has wiped out most of the smelt, to the point where they only keep a few streams open. I was going to post a really cool thread of a friend and I attempting to smelt.  We kept checking one of the legal streams from when the pond it flowed into was completely frozen until the first white sucker males scouts started their run up into the stream. During a period of 5 weeks or so, we didn’t see a single smelt. Some say they spawn out in deeper waters, and that may be true for a small percentage of them, but I think they have been wiped out by aggressive hatchery-reared stocked trout.I would rather eat smelt than almost any other fish. They are right up there with Walleye. If you smell a fresh caught smelt, it smells like cucumber. Very sad that they have been wiped out in most places. |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:16:07 PM EDT
[#30]
What, nobody been grunion hunting?
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:17:50 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Used to buy them all the time. For bait. Ice fishing for northern pike, smelt was the goto bait. Never have eaten one though. They are amazing to eat. |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:18:38 PM EDT
[#32]
It was always smoked around here. IIRC the runs started to get lighter and lighter so they cut back on the seasons. I heard that they've opened back up the last few years but i haven't really looked into it. They really WERE good smoked.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:19:06 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: People still catch and eat pier-caught Jacksmelt around here, I believe. Also Grunion are a type of smelt. I survived on Grunion one summer when I was very, very poor. |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:20:20 PM EDT
[#34]
I've seen them in a Asian grocery.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:22:42 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Was smelt for the poors back then? |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:23:35 PM EDT
[#36]
Grunion run going on? full moon on a falling tide?
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:23:48 PM EDT
[#37]
Fuckin' love fried smelts
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:25:10 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Kinda like fried mullet over here on the gulf, it was a staple at weekend cookouts, beach vacations, etc. Rarely see or hear of anyone cooking it like that themselves anymore. People buy and serve smoked mullet dip by the semi-truck load though (delicious). |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:25:48 PM EDT
[#39]
We used to get them a Sam's club years ago. Fried smelt and onion rings were a staple when I was a kid.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:26:23 PM EDT
[#40]
Smelt fries are a thing in MN.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:27:23 PM EDT
[#41]
we used to have decent runs out here in Washington ... then something happend around the mid 90's... It went bad real quick to the point it was not worth even trying for them. loved them little guys .... dad was good at frying them up.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:27:49 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Stop before I vomit. I thought only Mexicans ate Mullet? Big in Europe |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:28:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Smelt fries are a thing in MN. |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:29:50 PM EDT
[#44]
 Are you crazy? Its a can of old fish! |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:33:02 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: People still catch and eat pier-caught Jacksmelt around here, I believe. Also Grunion are a type of smelt. I survived on Grunion one summer when I was very, very poor. One of my fondest memories is going out and catching Grunion with my grandpa. Just us kids carrying 5 gal buckets and grandpa running the flashlight for us (laughing his ass off at us) I haven't thought of that in years. Thank you. |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:33:35 PM EDT
[#46]
Seasonal, spring time. Market Basket (New England grocer) carries them. I got some a couple months ago and fried them up. I haven’t seen smelt on a menu in about 5 years though.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:35:23 PM EDT
[#47]
We used to seine and drag for them in Lake Michigan. Great memories.
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:36:17 PM EDT
[#48]
We ate fried smelt on a regular basis. Dredged in flour and fried...damn fine eatin'
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:39:09 PM EDT
[#49]
Local bar/pub has Deep fried Smelt in the spring.
Used to go smelting in Lake Michigan every spring. They are still there just not as thick as they used to be. |
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Posted: 8/5/2020 11:41:46 PM EDT
[#50]
As a kid I can remember people netting them in WI and frying em up. They still do.
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