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Deboning Pickerel and Pike
This is for John Sheehan and any others who deign wot eat the mighty Esox clan.
100 years ago, they were a delicacy; maybe time to bring em back to the table...
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Comment by John Sheehan on March 26, 2015 at 5:45pm
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Don't know about Pike ,never ate one, but Pickerel the smaller members of the family, have nice pink fillets.
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Comment by Jim Gronaw on March 26, 2015 at 4:46pm
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I hear that many upper midwest guides prefer eating sized pike to walleye in flavor and texture. John Gillespie and Pete Maina have voiced this opinion several times on their TV shows. I have eaten pike that I filleted this way and found them to be very good indeed.
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