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Nell Merionwen



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Location: Beautiful Derbyshire
PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 12 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Chez wrote:
Gawber wrote:
Chez wrote:
I'm not entirely sure. Our Polish Lodger told me about it. It's what they do with the Christmas Carp, apparently.

Perhaps you shower, with the fish nibbling your toes? And then change it's water?


errr.....no: https://fishinglifestyle.net/2010/08/5-things-you-must-know-about-pike-fishing/

3rd pic down


MEEP!


let's skip thje pedicure

Bodger



Joined: 23 May 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 12 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Chez wrote:
Stick in the bath in clean water for three or four days to clean it out. Apparently they taste muddy otherwise.


Unless its already dead.

sgt.colon



Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.
PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 12 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Oh yeah, those guys have some very sharp teeth. You'd lose a toe or three.

So when you say keep it in the bath, I take it you mean alive?

Mustang



Joined: 15 Jul 2005
Posts: 768
Location: Sunny Suffolk
PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 12 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I've been diving with pike ... they kind of hover at the perifery of your vision, moving slowly and stealthily with you.

chez



Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 12 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sgt.colon wrote:
I take it you mean alive?


So I'm told.

I think I have a vague recollection of an early River Cottage where Huge cooked pike - he did something similar, ie, keeping it in clean water for a few days before killing it.

Bodger



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 12 10:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That was a grass carp Chez.

crofter



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 12 2:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We used to eat pike straight from the lake. Not sure I'd fancy one from a canal, but depends what the water quality is like.

Northern Boy



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 12 6:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'd eat one from a river - they should taste less muddy and maybe be 'cleaner'. Tho' obv depends on the river.

From a lake - no
From a canal....... maybe

edit to say that my perception of 'lake' is based upon my experience of small, weed and algae-choked mudbowls. Muddy taste comes from chemicals produced by certain algae in the water, and those algae are encouraged to grow in slow or still water and warmer temperatures. Big, deep lakes might be better.

chez



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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 12 7:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bodger wrote:
That was a grass carp Chez.


Damn. How much older than me are you and how much better is your memory?

I guess, as with everything, it depends how hungry you are.

SmattyB



Joined: 26 Oct 2006
Posts: 127
Location: Just landed in Aarhus, Denmark.
PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 12 7:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

As above, from a clean river, no problem, I have done and it tasted fine, from a canal, no, I think it would really be quite muddy tasting. Also, watch out for the pin bones, they have a kind of Y shape and they are pretty damn sharp.

sgt.colon



Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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Location: Just south of north.
PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 12 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thanks for all your replies.

I think Mrs C would do her fruit if I said about keeping it in the bath for a few day, so I think I'll just and fish C&R.

chez



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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 12 10:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

If you do decide to do it, can we be there when you tell her?

sgt.colon



Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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Location: Just south of north.
PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 12 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Chez wrote:
If you do decide to do it, can we be there when you tell her?


Of course or if you can't make it I'll record it and stick it on Youtube.

chez



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 12 10:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Good plan

dpack



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 12 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Duckhead wrote:
Yes I would eat it. depends on the canal


seconded

boiled and separated from the very wonderful skeleton .mix with mash spuds ,very yummy fishcakes

be sustainable with pike fishing ,as a first in line (sorry) to keep a population of fish free of disease or weakness they are very important .very soon the jacks and jills will be spawning ,late summer /autumn is a good time to eat a few medium to big ones if (big if there are rather too many in the water) ,my local canal is a bit iffy from river water input during the poisoning and im for no catch on either at the mo till numbers increase (hudds narrow / colne below linfit ) see who poisoned my river

good thing is 5000 new greyling

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