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Topic: Topsmelt?  (Read 3632 times)

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Does anyone eat Topsmelt?If so how do you cook it?
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   It is one of my favorite meals.  I brush it with oil, salt and broil on the lowest rack in the oven.  After about 5 minutes I turn it over for 2 more minutes. Sometimes I burn the oil and get enough smoke that I have to open the front door, but the fish is always awesome. 
   My wife makes a soup out of it, which is also good. It does not have a lot of bones so it is easy to eat in a soup.
   Maybe I should mention that I clean it first like a regular fish, take out the guts and remove the few scales.  I leave the heads on.

                     Opie


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Here's my fave recipe for topsmelt:

Upon catching them, keep them alive by whatever means necessary. Get your but down to the ARW, pin a lively one on and send it down. After awhile of soaking in these waters your rod tip will bounce a little. Wind it up and you will have found your topsmelt has morphed into a large brown and white flatfish. If its over 22 in, gaff it, bonk it, skin it, fillet it and throw it on the barbie with your fave spices.  :smt005


 

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