Smoked Tullibees

[IrishChef]

Guy down the street hit the Tullibees on MilleLacs last week, and dropped me off a bucket of 20. He even cleaned the stinky things for me, and only asked for a few back in return for me smoking them. So I brined them in a gallon and a half of water, 2 cups brown sugar, 1 cup canning salt, and 1 cup TQ for 48 hours, stirring the bucket a few times. Sorry, no pics of that. Here they are going into the smoker:





Running at a nice 225*


Done:


Sorry there aren't more pics, but was doing some serious multitasking on Tuesday, between syrup, the fish, 2 home improvement projects, and my daughters school concert. Smoked for about 3 hours with maple and oak. Damn tasty.

[new smoke]

Looks great.

I've only smoked salmon, but would like to broaden my fish horizons.

[Joneser]

At a glance I thought it said Smoked teletubbies!

Nice looking fishies!

[Meat Hunter]

Very cool Irish. Have yet to catch any of them this year, but make it a point to always get some at the smoke shops up in Duluth when we go.

They taste great.

[minnbill]

Might taste good but good luck gettin the stink outa yer smoker.

[Fishawn]

Looking good IC ...... Never had, or heard of a Tullibees before..... About how big are they & is there any other fish you might compare them to?

[IrishChef]

Looking good IC ...... Never had, or heard of a Tullibees before..... About how big are they & is there any other fish you might compare them to?

They get up to about 4 lbs. Usually only caught or netted in the winter through the ice. Similar to a lake whitefish or freshwater herring, although when I was fishing sturgeon out your way, we were using some sort of shad, which looked really similar to them. Like Bill said though, they got a fishy stink when fresh. Greasy white flesh and a very bony mouth too.

[Fishawn]

They get up to about 4 lbs. Usually only caught or netted in the winter through the ice. Similar to a lake whitefish or freshwater herring, although when I was fishing sturgeon out your way, we were using some sort of shad, which looked really similar to them. Like Bill said though, they got a fishy stink when fresh. Greasy white flesh and a very bony mouth too.

OK, thanks..... I thought they looked like Shad..... Nice Job

[new smoke]

That does not sound appetizing at all.

However, I would like someone to smoke all those tubby little bastards.

At a glance I thought it said Smoked teletubbies!

Nice looking fishies!

[curious aardvark]

anything that's like mackerel has got to be good smoked.
And i'm guessing the 48 hour brining should have got rid of most of the fisdhy smell.

Shame n pics of the smoked flesh - but nice job all round

[shellbellc]

a cup of TQ?? Is that measuring at a TB per pound o fish? I've only used TQ for my bacons, haven't done anything else with it so I'm just wondering the benefits of it on fish...this sounds more to me like curing than brining.

Looked good all smoked up! Hoping to get some fresh trout on our smoker this weekend!

[Dysartsmoker]

We feed them fish to the cats here

[ALX]

Nice job man....Cow rock starten run up bay to dump....Some monsters out me back door....

[Richtee]

Might taste good but good luck gettin the stink outa yer smoker.

Ya know..I have noticed this doing fish. The oils get really nasty really fast.

Never heard of this fish before.

[IrishChef]

This should clear up some questions on the Tullibee.