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Joey

Joined: 03 Nov 2004
Posts: 191

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 05 11:32 am Post subject: Chub

Although I would still list fishing as a main hobby of mine, fly fishing in particular, I actually haven't wet a line for two years due to moving to a new area, new job and now having two young un's.
Anyway, my 4 year old had been pestering me to take him "real fishing" , not just with a net for sticklebacks.
There is a fenland drain a few hundred yards out of the village here
and about three weeks ago we were walking over the road bridge
and I noticed a few fish much larger than the usual sticklebacks in the pool downstream of the bridge.
Last weekend the field next the drain was harvested so I took the boy out to the garden, dug some worms, grabbed the spinning rod
,a couple of hooks and a bubblefloat and we went to the drain.
No sooner than the worm plopped into the pool and we were attached to a chub 1-1.5 lb. Son and heir reeled him in and I got my
feet wet extracting the chub from a weedbed.
We unhooked it, looked at it and watched it swim off again and rushed home to tell his Mum.
Very chuffed 4 year old told the whole story to his Sunday School teacher the next day.

Now then.
Suppose we were to go down again next Saturday. Anyone know
a good way of eating chub???
I have only caught and eaten trout and seafish up to now.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 05 6:30 pm Post subject:

A topic that often crops up, edible fresh water fish. I saw Floyd cooking some lake fished perch on the TV just the other day. He simply BBQed them with some salt and pepper and some herbs.

Recently I saw a small lake / large pond and, although it seemed quite muddy, it was overflowing with perch or rudd. Now if the water was tested and was ok could you eat them? Would they taste muddy, would they be too boney or simply 'orrible?

When I ccokcook trout I tend fill the cavity with plenty of fresh herbs, slat & pepper and sometimes lemon juice and then BBQ. I think this would also go some way to make other fresh water fish edible.

Joey

Joined: 03 Nov 2004
Posts: 191

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 05 7:47 am Post subject:
Ta Treac. When we were on holiday once at Lake Maggiore in Italy, my wife had perch "goujons" and said they were very nice. The locals fished on the quayside on Saturday evenings and got very excited when they caught zander, a local delicacy. I'm told that small pike are very nice too and we know that the continentals still eat carp. Hmmm.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 05 8:32 am Post subject:
Perch is very tasty, they eat a lot of it in aus, although I think they call it either red fin or english perch. Paul Rankin has some recipes for freshwater fishcakes that use roach as well as perch. IIRC, Chub is pretty tasteless, and includes lots and lots of bones.

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