Having smoked many goldeyes in past years I found that hanging them on wire hooks causes endless frustration because as you mentioned they are not made of tough stuff and when they fall down it gets messy.I Use wood from willows,pin cherry and/or chokecherry and use straight salt brine only. One of the best tasting fish products in Canada. A very well presented video.
+awalt26439 Thanks for watching! I am making a batch up in the next week or so, I might try your mixture of wood chips to see how it tastes. Talk to you soon...
Great video!!! Im from Wpg too and love fishing for goldeye. So easy when they are running!!! This is my fo to video for smoking goldeye and can be used for other fish too!!! I have always fished for them with a hook one foot under a bobber with two or three split shot spaced evenly apart between hook and bobber and a small piece of worm. Toss the rig in keeping your bail open and let the river current take it away. It will go less than ten feet before it goes under.
Great video. I want add a bit to your explanation about smoking fish. You are right for fish you want to cook the fish first and then add smoke, which is the exact opposite to meat. The reason for this is the smoke actually adheres to the
Very well described video!!! Good job! My uncle Jarvis used to always take me goldeye fishing in the whiteshell, and then we'd smoke them up using an old gutted fridge. They tasted so great. His had more of that red color skin once done, like the stores, but cannot remember how he did that or what he used. Thanks again for the vid.
Thanks for the recipe. I froze mine cause I was waiting to smoke them but love the idea of tossing then I to the mix frozen. Can't wait to see how that's going to work. Wished you had showed how to get them LOL. Been 15 years since I fished, really lost my knife skills.
+Joe Kazaker I might post another video on catching them... As you probably already know, when they are biting and you get on a school of them, it is usually one after another. Bobber and a piece of nightcrawler or pickerel rig with small hooks (size 12) and worms.
Its crazy. Down here in the U.S "Conservationist" who have accidentally caught these(Goldeye) have listed them as Endangered. We use them for catfish bait alive if caught small enough or as cut bait for different lakes. Nice Video. Never heard of anyone eating them. We have the Mooneye also which are considered less rare.
Yep. The biggest thing about them is most people have no clue how to catch them. We always caught them at night on a crappie float about a foot deep anywhere light hit the water. They feed on insects. Never seen em caught earlier in the day on the bottom like some of the videos here show. They are super easy to catch from around sun down til even sun up some times. Just have to watch for rings on surface like Crappie and trout when they feed and throw near it. Crickets,wax worms,spam, tons of bait work.
Ursa Minor - I know what you are saying. I left Winnipeg to join the military and lived in every province from Ontario west to B.C. and you can only find smoked goldeye for sale or ordering in Manitoba and northwest ON near Kenora. We have plenty goldeye in Alberta but they don’t know how to prepare them. Gonna be catching and smoking goldeye this year. 🐟
Great video. My dad always says that you have to smoke goldeye or they won't taste like anything. I've heard other people say you can fry them like any other fish, without smoking them and they'll taste fine. Which one is right? I've never ate goldeye before, but I want to try it someday. If you're ever here in Saskatchewan, Lake Diefenbaker, about 100 kms from Moose Jaw has a good stock. I've caught them with minnows numerous times. The best time to fish for them seems to be in the fall.
@@tylerbonni3054 Never heard of that. There's another way. I found this video a while ago. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QuYESotoAm4.html They caught some from the North Saskatchewan River. The way they cook them sounds tasty. I'll definitely try that method someday. Speaking of Pickerel, I've never had it before. We don't have them or Musky in Saskatchewan. I don't know why. The closest Pickerel are to Saskatchewan is Ontario and the closest Musky are to us is The Red River of the North which flows north through North Dakota and drains into Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba. We don't even have Crappie and they're found in all of the lower 48 states. Even in Montana and North Dakota but you won't find them in Saskatchewan either. No clue why.
+Russell Kastner We just use a metal spoon, it works wonders on getting rid of scales. Just make sure to work your way from the tail to the head (against the "grain"). Also, it helps to have a cutting board with a clamp on it (for the fish's tail) so it doesn't slide around all over the place.
