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Skriven 2009-09-12 17:56:00 av BOB GEARHART (1:123/140)
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Ärende: Re: Pink Trout
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 Hap Newsom said to Bob Gearhart at 09-12-09  12:18
 Subject: Re: Pink Trout<Hap Newsom>


 HN> Hey Bob!
 
 HoHo Happer
 
 
 HN> I wonder what the summer water temps in 
 HN> the great lakes is? I'm a firm believer in fish
 
 The salmon stay down deep.  The water on the surface warms enough 
 for swimming except in Lake Superior.  The salmon school up before 
 spawning and hold in the 55 degree water, which is about 80 feet 
 down.  When the water near shore cools to that temperature, then 
 they are out just off shore where you can catch them casting from 
 the shore.  They have pretty much stopped feeding at that point, 
 but the state changed the rules a few years back where they are 
 the only fish that can be kept if foul hooked now.  Most fishing 
 in the lakes is done trolling downriggers from a boat.
 
 Lake water is Low 70's in August.  Except for Lake Erie which is 
 shallow so warms early on.  No salmon are there, they tried planting 
 them, but they never took.  There are no naturally spawning fish in 
 the great lakes.  As they only return to the stream they are imprinted 
 with, Michigan and the surrounding states build weirs on those streams 
 and take all the the spawning salmon out.  Then they use the eggs and
 milt to create a new batch for planting.  The fish are sold to pet 
 food canneries.  
 
 If they were allowed in the streams they would destroy the native 
 trout populations. They spawn sooner and eat all the trout feed. The 
 first few years they let them spawn but it made for a stinking mess 
 of fish along the river shorelines.  We aren't talking western rivers 
 five hundred yards wide, these are streams that would more appropriately 
 be called creeks. Littered with fish it attracted all the black bears 
 that usually eat at the county dumps in and people started having bear 
 problems.  The trout is our big sport fish.   
 
 When the Seaway was opened for shipping, a little fish called an 
 alewife came in.  Like a shad, they had no natural predators and 
 went nuts. Cluttering the beaches, stinking up the world where 
 tractors with huge screens on the front were running up and down 
 the beach sand piling them into huge piles at the end to burn.  
 Then someone found out that Atlantic Salmon (Coho ) would eat them.  
 A new fishery was established that now brings a lot of sports fisher 
 folks in to catch them.  They grow to larger size in the lakes because 
 of the abundance of food.  Kings will reach 100 pounds.
 
 HN> from cold waters. Here in the summers I seldom
 HN> fish lakes for trout (unless they are fed from
 HN> underground springs which stay cold yearround) 
 HN> as most of our lakes are shallow and the water
 HN> temps rise and the trout stop being firm fleshed
 HN> and become soft and muddy tasting. (blech)
 
 Trout is my least favorite fish.  I love to catch them on flies but 
 seldom keep them.  To mushy for me.
 
 
 HN> Streams and river fish however stay in cold
 HN> water year round and are always flavorful 
 HN> and firm and much better tasting !!
 HN> The water temps in Puget sound are 
 HN> fairly stable and cold only varying about
 HN> 8-9 degrees from winter to summer and 
 HN> seldom warmer than 54 F even on hot summers.
 HN> This keeps salmon (and other fish as well)
 HN> nice and firm..and tasty!
 
 Chuckle, Our water gets solid on the top in the winter.  The ice on 
 Lake Michigan is broken up by storms and blown up on the beaches.  
 It's really a neat sight to ski out along the beach wearing cross 
 country skis to see ice piles ten to twenty feet thick along the 
 beach. Do it in Jan - march at dusk and you will be treated to a 
 display of deer and elk coming down to the shoreline to feed on the 
 berries.
 
 ->  When younger, we would cut the tail sections off an 8 to 10 pound fish 
 ->  and freeze that part in the dry ice coolers.  
 ->  
 ->  The body cavity would be set in aluminum foil rubbed with butter, 
 ->  a thin sliced onion spread throughout and a half can of chopped tomato
 ->  poured in juice and all.  Seal the foil packet and set about ten inches 
 ->  from the campfire, turn to the other side after about twenty minutes.  
 ->  Two or three fish like that, a package of crackers and a few beers with 
 ->  good friends made some of the fondest memories I have of fishing trip
 ->  eating.

 HN> We did something similar, although I never used 
 HN> tomato with fish. We'd slice an onion thin, a lemon
 HN> thin and toss those into the cavity as well as some
 HN> herbs (usually thyme or tarragon) and salt and pepper.
 HN> eating using fingers and crackers....and beer or wine,
 HN> it don't get much better'n that! 
 HN> chat with you soon!
 HN> hap 
 
 Yup, fingers, crackers and fish around a campfire on a cold October
 evening.  That's real living.
 
 
 
... Puppies still have bad breath, even after eating a tic-tac.
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