i have tried some smoked and they are premo.! our lakes up here on the canadian border are very cold and deep. south of here where its warmer, like where sea monkey is, i agree, they taste like mud.
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I’ve heard, if you keep the smaller ones under 15” they are similar to a any other trout (Sebago Lake has no limit On lake trout under 26“). Then if you smoke them, they make a good dip for crackers or as a fish salad type mix. I’m dont each much fish myself, I’m not sure how my relatives prepare the Culled lake trout I bring them. They all work together at my family’s Chinese restaurant, them along with the other kitchen staff will eat any fish I bring them, but I honestly try to only keep invasive species and let most of my fish go 
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a few years ago i was fishing for junk fish, mostly y. perch, fallfish and horn pout at a spot that rarely has anyone but kids fish there. a cadillac shows up which i thought was odd as we were 15mi. in on a dirt road. anyway 2 asian ladies and a guy get out and pull a huge marine cooler out of the trunk. i noticed right away they were plowed and speaking korean. i was there in the Army. they made a fire and started fishing. they kept everything from the smallest perch to the biggest fallfish. they were hooting and hollering having a gay ol’ time! when they left the cooler was full and it took all 3 of them to put it in the trunk. they were so plastered they had a hell of a time! we were laughing our asses off! i don’t know how they drove out of there but they weren’t on the side of the road on the way out.
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Yea sounds about right… just like my uncles, they will eat anything lol. But at least with Asians and other “old country” types, they likely will eat the fish. My buddy that visits in-laws down in NC says he almost hates going fishing with them. They also keep everything they catch, fill a cooler like you described. But they just take a pic at the end of the day with all the fish dumped out on the ground, then they toss them in the trash 
. My buddy releases his catch like he normally does, and they get mad at him.
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my favorite fishing is largemouth, but here there are almost none,was always catch and release.
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That really gets me man. People going hungry and you do that. We had some family to my wife shooting bucks and just taking heads. Sickening man.
Funny story about Asians and fishing. I was at Port Aransas and this gentleman comes into the fish cleaning house well dressed. He is wearing a UT polo and khaki shorts. He was looking for fish heads from the red snappers that fisherman did not want. I asked him why, and he told me about fish head soup.
I’m intriuiged by Asian food to be honest, real asian food. He described it to me. More intrigued yet, my plan was to clean my snappers and take them home whole, then to put them on the smoker.
He gave me the recipe and even ran home and got me some fresh lemongrass to cook them with (later I got some shoots to grow.)
Stuff is the bomb by the way. Wow. I need to go catch some snapper, as I have been out for sometime.
Turns out he was a professor at the University of Texas, gathering discarded fishheads. Never judge someone by what they do for sure.
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I know fish head soup 
hated the stuff growing up. Stank up the house. My aunt use to make it for the family, but with salmon heads usually. My grandmother likes red snapper, traditionally we are most fish pan fried with scallions and garlic (usually no batter as I can recall) then some sort of sauce was made with it. I still don’t like much seafood, very rarely do I eat fish. When I do, it’s usually clams and shrimp deep fried lol. But yes to lemongrass in soups 
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It must be a love/ hate thing. We grew pretty partial to it, but we are fish lovers!
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Gorgeous view my friend.
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and i thought i had a lot of shit in my bag!
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That not just any “day bag”! Sad how most people won’t even know how to use many of those items
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That’s not true. Any millennial could pick out and name 3 things they’ve seen in their video games!! 
Using them now… 
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you don’t know how many times I hear someone talk about this This and that gun, when you can tell everything they leaned was off video games!
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As I’ve always said, “it’s the Indian, not the arrow” I’ve seen people brag about their 1500$ winchester when most people could take them to school with an old small brand cheap shotgun
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When the school was shutdown, I had my son learn all the parts to an ar15, and how to field strip/ reassemble. He already knew most of the parts from call of duty!
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You are right, a lot of the old knowledge has been lost (almost) anyways. 
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My little guy will be 4 in three months, a bit early for that I guess. Plus with his autism, we are still working on talking and potty training. I at least hope to get him to reel in a fish soon, though winter is coming, I’m not sure if I’m up to the challenge of beginning him out ice fishing yet, if mama would even let me
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do like my buddy did in his shanty. went to the junkyard and cut out a lap seatbelt and screwed it to the seat in the shack. no worrying about the kid falling in. 
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did the same with my son/ daughter when they were 10 and 9. my son went into the Marines and the drill asked him how we knew to disassemble and clean his weapon as well as he did the 1st time doing it. told him my ex Army dad trained me. my kids also did a lot of camping / survival training stuff with me. I’m sure if SHTF they could survive and provide for themselves and family. both are avid fishermen , hunters and outdoors people.
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