Iced Lake Trout hit some Maple via the Amazen smoker w/pics

[erain]

the victims, actually only did up the big one this batch...




filleted and left skin on, also i cut each fillet into 5 pieces.




the plan is to smoke over maple using Todds Amazen smoker. i have brined the fish for 2 days using my traditional brine. and then a fresh water soak for 6 hours. let set til the pellicle formed. i used brown sugar like i usually do on 1 fillet...


on the other i am going to use maple syrup from last springs harvest. kinda crappy pic...


side by side on a sheet pan...


i got 2 bags more in the freezer so i got some more to play with. thks for cking my pics!

[Fishawn]

Good stuff E!... How big is that big one?

[Critterhunter]

That looks Dayuumm good E.Nice looking Catch

[Adiochiro3]

That looks fantastic, erain! Love smoked fish. What's your brine recipe -- if it's not a state secret.

[Fire it up]

Maple on maple, the man knows what's good and how to make it even better!

[curious aardvark]

those are seriously chunky looking fish.

Sounds great. You know I'm pretty sure that cooked. smoked and vacpacked they'd be fine for a week in the post, I'm willing to risk it

[Seboke]

Good lookin catch E! Looks like Rich's camera is making it'f rounds tho...

[Bassman]

Looks good, Erain.

[WALLE]

E!
I would give those the lip smack, clackity clack, mackity MACK DOWN!!

If you ever have an extra gunny sack of them, ship them to Keith (he is home more than me) and I'll make sure I get my share.

The best eating trout out there IMHO :thumb

[Jimh]

may favorite way to eat lake trout

[rbranstner]

Looks awesome Erain. I can't say that I have ever had lake trout but I'm sure I would love them.

[sweet_magnolia]

Looking good, E! I bet the maple was awesome on that!

[someAZdude]

Nice fish. I remember eating a lot of smoked trout when I was a kid. Killer. One of these days I will catch and smoke some myself. Never had Lake Trout though. What did you catch them on and how big were they? That one looks really nice.

[erain]

Good stuff E!... How big is that big one?

i think it was 34", never did get a weight on it...

That looks fantastic, erain! Love smoked fish. What's your brine recipe -- if it's not a state secret.

no secrets here... i thought i had it posted but couldnt find it... went back to a 2009 post and found it. this one is passed on down from me grandpa...

smoked fish brine

2 3/4 cups pickling salt
10 qts cold water-use good water
1 cup brown sugar
2 tbls garlic salt

soak avg sized pieces 24 hrs, soak in fresh water 1 hour

big thick pieces of fish, may require more time and smaller less. once out of brine set on a rack with a fan blowing across fish til outside of fish dry, a coating will form on it called the "pellicle", is now ready for smoker. i also like to rub some brown sugar on the meat

Nice fish. I remember eating a lot of smoked trout when I was a kid. Killer. One of these days I will catch and smoke some myself. Never had Lake Trout though. What did you catch them on and how big were they? That one looks really nice.

jig with big musky tube jigs, they like white it seems... and have tip ups for our second line. or if there is 2 of us, will put 3 tip ups around the flipup with only one hole in the center. i think the big tube jig action draws them in. on the tip ups we use sucker ot whatever is locally available minnows...

all nice fish, 6-12 pounds being about the size they run. everynow and then get a bigger one, we have snapped some lines in the past but always figured maybe a big pike done it, but after seeing that monster laker maybe not...

[Bearcarver]

OMG !!!!

I love Trout !!!

And two things that go good with trout are Smoke & Erain!!!

Some--- to the Master of the Minnesota Smoked Fish!!!


Thanks Erain!!!

Bear