Eating Pike!!!.

[BIGMAN]

hi all,

did anyone see the programe at 7.30 on bbc2 last night,johnathan meades suggested that only pike were worth eating out of our waters,what the hell is that gonna do to the pike population?

bigman.

[chesters1]

exactly the same as when people DID eat pike out of our waters .....nothing , perch and dace are the best a bit muddy are the rest

[Paul_D]

Never eaten a Dace but have to agree with Chesters, Perch de-scaled and baked in foil with herby butter is the best.

[Steve Burke]

When I went on a trip to Finland with Rapala, knowing of my love of perch fishing they jokingly gave me perch for dinner - they were great! Next day I tried zander - even better!

[Peter Waller]

Thick shouldered carp, yummeeeeeeeeeee. 20 pounds of table fish, ummmmmmmmmm.

 

Joking apart, and coincidently, there is a bit in my local paper today about people taking their regulation two pike per day, each, from the Wensum at Norwich. Pikers have complained to the EA but two a day is legal. But as one person is reported to have said, its rich pikers complaining about pike killing from a fish conservation point when pikers think nothing of taking twenty or more roach as bait. Got to say, I think he has a point!!

[The Diamond Geezer]

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Originally posted by Peter Waller:

coincidently, there is a bit in my local paper today about people taking their regulation two pike per day, each, from the Wensum at Norwich. Pikers have complained to the EA but two a day is legal. But as one person is reported to have said, its rich pikers complaining about pike killing from a fish conservation point when pikers think nothing of taking twenty or more roach as bait. Got to say, I think he has a point!!

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Peter

Re: the two-pike-a-day limit, I thought there was also a maximum weight limit for each fish too; the figure of 7 lb. springs to mind. Can you confirm this?

DG

[Paul_D]

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Next day I tried zander - even better!

 

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Yep....Zander is good. Carp and Bream aren't! (My Mum lives in Germany and the restaurants around her locality serve a lot of fish so I had to try them didn't I?)

 

Falkus and Bullers book gives some interesting old recepies for many freshwater fish. Always fancied Gudgeon but would never be able to bring myself to 'knocking' them.

[corydoras]

Pike is eaten and sold in fishmongers and supermarkets all over France. It is called as 'brochet'. I have eaten perch in France with a mushroom and champagne sauce and it was yummy. :cool:

[Steve Burke]

I've eaten pike just once. This was a deeply-hookly fish that looked as though it almost certainly wouldn't survive. My wife gutted it and cut the head and tail off before soaking it in lemon juice overnight and then baking it in the oven.

 

My son and daughter watched all the preparation, but Rob couldn't bring himself to eat it. However he eventually tried a mouthful - and then asked for seconds!

[corydoras]

30 years ago when I was a nipper Glasgow Corporation used to net scores of pike every winter from Loch Katrine and Loch Arklet (Glasgow's water supply). The idea was that the pike predated on the wild brown trout in the lochs. The pike is generally regarded as unedible in Scotland, so the netted pike were fed to the sheperds' dogs or just dumped in the midden.

 

[ 06. March 2003, 10:02 AM: Message edited by: corydoras ]