let me start with this, im a catch and release guy period, i dont eat fish not even store bought salmon, i dont like the flavor(something is probably wrong with me i know haha)
anyways, a friend of mine keeps some fish from the local lake(dumb stockers) and he used a big companies letter opener to gut the fish.
it looked like this:
he would slip it in near the gill plate and slide it down the belly right down to the anal fin, and gut the trout and do anything else, then put it on ice in all of about 2 minutes.
so if you didnt already know theres something you may want to check out.
Even the best of us have a fish die on us from time to time. This is a great way to enjoy tasty, stuffed fish. Follow the instructions exactly and chill the fish over night before boning. I have yet to try it on perch but don’t see why it won’t work on pan fish as well as trout and salmon.
Same principle as a gut hook on a hunting knife…great idea, but in my limited experience with trout I will still need a knife to cut the sinew attaching the guts to the cavity, and scrape the spinal sac.
A sharp knife will do the job just as quickly plus you can use it to cut a forked stick to carry the fish home with. An added bonus is that a belt knife has that great macho mountain man look some of us strive for. 8)
The easiest way to debone fish is to cook them first then just lift the bones away from the spine in one swell foop. err make that one fell swoop.
This is one of those phrases that we may have picked up early in our learning of the language and probably worked out its meaning from the context we heard it in, without any clear understanding of what each word meant. Most native English speakers could say what it means but, if we look at it out of context, it doesn’t appear to make a great deal of sense. That lack of understanding of the words in the phrase is undoubtedly the reason that this is often misspelled - ‘at one fail swoop’ (or sometimes, stoop).
So, what’s that ‘fell’? We use the word in a variety of ways: to chop, as in fell a tree; a moorland or mountain, like those in the northern UK; the past tense of fall, as ‘he fell over’. None of those seem to make sense in this phrase and indeed the ‘fell’ here is none of those. It’s an old word, in use by the 13th century, that’s now fallen out of use apart from in this phrase and as the common root of the term ‘felon’. The Oxford English Dictionary defines fell as meaning ‘fierce, savage; cruel, ruthless; dreadful, terrible’, which is pretty unambiguous.
Shakespeare either coined the phrase, or gave it circulation, in Macbeth, 1605:
At one fell swoopMACDUFF: [on hearing that his family and servants have all been killed]
All my pretty ones?
Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?
The kite referred to is a hunting bird, like the Red Kite, which was common in England in Tudor times and is now making a welcome return after near extinction in the 20th century. The swoop (or stoop as is now said) is the rapid descent made by the bird when capturing prey.
Shakespeare used the imagery of a hunting bird’s ‘fell swoop’ to indicate the ruthless and deadly attack by Macbeth’s agents.
In the intervening years we have rather lost the original meaning and use it now to convey suddenness rather than savagery.
Just kidding. I’m not certain that is what it’s called. Looks like it is full of blood so I get rid of it. Maybe someone knows the real term. Flyandtie, that’s not savage, that’s ingenious!
I keep the “dumb Stockers” from the pot hole lakes here around my work place. Could not sleep at night if I keep a “wild river/stream” trout or other wild fish…
have used a spoon to clean the spine for like ever (sorry for the “youth-izem” ) it just sounded right in my head…
can’t see me carry the wunderboner around on the stream, my wife would wunder "all puns intended "
fry the fish right (in butter, cast iron pan until crisp)and the then put a fork in near the tail (eat crisp tail of the small ones) and lift the top half of the trout and it will come off the spine and damn near all the rib bones (if you don’t get too much corn meal or flour on the inside) any way then eat the trout cheeks,eyes and the great pink fillets…
or just fillet and smoke it in mesquite wood and enjoy …
Kill, the chickens, polar bears, silver monkeys, indian crow, seal, ducks, geese and swans to tie a flie, and then release the fish…Seems kind of contradictory doesn’t it? :lol:
Kill all the chickens, polar bears, silver monkeys, indian crow, seal, ducks, geese and swans to tie a flie, and then release the fish…Seems kind of contradictory doesn’t it? :lol:[/quote]
Sir
I am sure you did not say that all the seals have been killed off…
BECAUSE - there is now 6 - 10 MILLION seals in the north Atlantic that are starving them selfs to death… because there is no “birth control” for them, if you wonder were the fish stocks have gone salmon, cod, ground fish, etc… that is the reason.
And that is not even looking at the seal population on the west coast and the world…
If any of you want, we can PM this because it is a very highly charged topic… and I do not and will not hold back on this if engaged on the topic…
I grew up in New Brunswick, Can and have studied this since the late 70’s when GP(I don not even like to say their name) started in on the seal hunt…
