Posted: 7/12/2010 6:59:53 PM EDT
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Lots of rain this spring during fishcamp time and low numbers of king salmon have made it hard for everybody.
People are having fish spoil no mater how they try and flies like mad laying eggs. Glad we have enough to last another yr or 2. Did do fishcamp this yr do too moms cancer. |
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Lots of rain this spring during fishcamp time and low numbers of king salmon have made it hard for everybody. People are having fish spoil no mater how they try and flies like mad laying eggs. Glad we have enough to last another yr or 2. Did do fishcamp this yr do too moms cancer. How are you guys preserving your fish, smoking, salting, drying, etc.? On a much smaller scale, I love stocking up on the steelhead we get around here. Smoked steelead is hard to beat. 
ETA: Sorry to hear it isn't a good season for you. |
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Lots of rain this spring during fishcamp time and low numbers of king salmon have made it hard for everybody. People are having fish spoil no mater how they try and flies like mad laying eggs. Glad we have enough to last another yr or 2. Did do fishcamp this yr do too moms cancer. How are you guys preserving your fish, smoking, salting, drying, etc.? On a much smaller scale, I love stocking up on the steelhead we get around here. Smoked steelead is hard to beat.
ETA: Sorry to hear it isn't a good season for you. Soak the fish in a brine for up to 5min then hang outside under a tarp for a few days then into the smokehouse. The feds just closed 2 river's for kings as the number have virtually collapsed. 
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Lots of rain this spring during fishcamp time and low numbers of king salmon have made it hard for everybody. People are having fish spoil no mater how they try and flies like mad laying eggs. Glad we have enough to last another yr or 2. Did do fishcamp this yr do too moms cancer. How are you guys preserving your fish, smoking, salting, drying, etc.? On a much smaller scale, I love stocking up on the steelhead we get around here. Smoked steelead is hard to beat.
ETA: Sorry to hear it isn't a good season for you. Soak the fish in a brine for up to 5min then hang outside under a tarp for a few days then into the smokehouse. The feds just closed 2 river's for kings as the number have virtually collapsed. 5 minutes is a really quick brine. I usually soak for hours before smoking. I take it that you use a really strong brine solution? I basically use a ratio of 1 cup of kosher salt to 1 cup of brown sugar to 1 gallon of water. What's going on with you king salmon numbers, is it weather or something else throwing it off? |
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Lots of rain this spring during fishcamp time and low numbers of king salmon have made it hard for everybody. People are having fish spoil no mater how they try and flies like mad laying eggs. Glad we have enough to last another yr or 2. Did do fishcamp this yr do too moms cancer. How are you guys preserving your fish, smoking, salting, drying, etc.? On a much smaller scale, I love stocking up on the steelhead we get around here. Smoked steelead is hard to beat.
ETA: Sorry to hear it isn't a good season for you. Soak the fish in a brine for up to 5min then hang outside under a tarp for a few days then into the smokehouse. The feds just closed 2 river's for kings as the number have virtually collapsed. 5 minutes is a really quick brine. I usually soak for hours before smoking. I take it that you use a really strong brine solution? I basically use a ratio of 1 cup of kosher salt to 1 cup of brown sugar to 1 gallon of water. What's going on with you king salmon numbers, is it weather or something else throwing it off? In about 10gal of water we put enough salt to float a potato. Any longer than 5min and the fish will be really salty. Too much intercept fisheries,beavers,commercial fishing and population. The 2 rivers have not met escapement in 6yrs or so and the state kept it quite. |