Not that I’m aware of, but I could be wrong. Ask my wife. 
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I don’t think so.
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never fished saltwater before, hybred stripes is all i’ve ever cought , they will flaten hooks and take the finish off a lure!
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Once you fish saltwater it’s hard to go back lol
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You batter everything with your favourite…
Cook the fillets first, next the bow ties, then livers and roe together last. And if you want to maximize all your catch you do a boil up with all the carcasses. Boil until all the fatty oils are on the top of the boil. Shut her off and cool it down. Get juice containers (3.8L/1G) and pour the boiled goods into the container. Use cheesecloth or a coffee screen filter. Shake and store… this is free plant food. Nitrogen rich and full of nutrients! I don’t use it often as the animals love it and go ape shit on my plants medium. If you don’t have vermin and bears this will cover all of the vegetative growth period. Whitefish is one we like to use the most as it’s super healthy juice even for humans. The elders drink it when they have colds. I have one gallon left that’s super potent…make sure you stir and shake every other day. Free from the land that the creator lends us to live and flourish. Thank you for reading one of many old Cree practises from the wild north!
And the old bear and her cub foraging before the hibernation period. Lots of shad in the river and to see blueberries going into September is a great sign brothers….
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Wow man. What a beautiful place. Happy that you are enjoying that as well as the tasty fish.
There is a way to make liquid fish fertilizer without a strong smell that attracts animals. It’s a fermentation process that ends up having a low fish odor with a hint of vinegar.
Here’s a link:
I’ve done it in buckets using an air lock (brewing style). Some people just use a loose lid or a screen over the bucket. I’ve blended the fish to make fermenting faster- and I’ve thrown in large chunks big bonzes and heads. It gets digested and fermented by the microbes either way. Big bones and all.
My last batch using free expired fish from a market:
I’ve made smaller amounts from scraps I saved in the freezer from fish I’ve caught.
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Have a bunch of shallow grass flats around Grab a couple of kids , 5gal bucket & a dipnet & go wade up a mess Line pretty much same picking 1 at a time Trap in right place / bait can fill up in a days soak
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We use to make concentrated fish emulsion for our vegetable gardens as well.
We also used to bury the whole fish carcass minus the guts and blood. We would make a trough 4’-5’ deep and lay the carcasses every 3’ and then bury them. Was a garden of eden brother… the garden program that I ran still do this practice. I retired last year after getting it off the ground and passing knowledge to the next generation.
I admire the dedication you put into your garden. The soil and beneficial bacteria must love it! Great job brother 
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That’s a great way to dispose of the carcass too. just moved to the city and got done cleaning that nice catfish and realized I had nothing to wrap it in. I put it in a trash bag and into the trash bin outside and now it REEKS. City problems I did not anticipate! Hard as hell to dig here, all wet clay a few inches down. Told the wife next time I will bag it up and take it to the river and dump it in I guess. Trash is not a good option lol
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Anybody on here ever make or use salted minnows?
I’ve been meaning to. I have a minnow trap. Looked online and all one needs is some kosher or non-iodized salt.
I’ve used store bought salted minnows but not many times and no luck with them.
But I like the idea of making my own bait that can last a long time.
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What would you be targeting with salted minnows ? So many functional replacements like Gulp minnows and Powerbait that are more user friendly.
Great info on nitrogen rich plant food and a cure all for colds. My only success in using fish in our garden grown years ago when I was in my teens, was to cut up an average size carp of 10 lbs or larger into 5 or 6 pieces.
We would bury these in our garden about 3 feet deep. The tomato plants that grew over the top of one of these buried chunks of carp exploded like THCeeds weed plant stalks, which by the way, are large enough to sell to the local utility company for telephone poles. 
The tomato plants grew to heights we’ve never seen before and the yield was amazing. Thanks for the plant food info as I will give it a try. I’m always fishing for something including my search for knowledge. Thank you.
I love fishing for steelhead in the surf of Lake Michigan. It starts getting good toward the end of September and then just gets better through November. That is also the time of of year when
we catch bonus whitefish.
Steelhead caught surf fish Lake Michigan.
17 lbs. 4 oz on two lb test leader. For those that don’t know,
that is a very large one. Most are 8 to 10 lbs, but unlike salmon that runs rivers to spawn when they mature and then die, is that steelhead will run rivers year after year and get larger with each passing year.
This pic is from the late '80s. A three man limit of steelhead and
brown trout caught surf fishing Lake Michigan. 2 lb test leaders and small hooks.
A magazine I use to read as a young teen was called
Fishing Facts, and one of the writers for the magazine was always
pushing the idea of a finesse presentation, as in light line and small hooks. Thanks to Spence Petros for planting this knowledge in my head. Another that fell to the light line/small hook presentation. 13 lbs 4oz on 2 lb test leader and a state record
whitefish.
Serenity at Sundown
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Trout are great as well. The heads we smoke or when I’m in the wild I just slap them in the hot coals on a bed of diamond willow or if you have to in heavy duty aluminum foil. Great eating and meat picking. No waste up here in the wild North country
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Brown trout and rainbow trout. Possibly Walleye. I don’t mind eating smallmouth bass and I do.
I don’t like plastics and I don’t like buying shit in general. Unless they are shiny pretty little lures, marketed to catch dummies like me.
Buying new lures is a gateway drug towards Vintage lure collecting.
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We used to salt our bait for snapper, grouper & other reef fish Usually cut mackerel, ladyfish, bluefish, bonito & whatever type minnow / sardine /herring was around Also made it rubbery as snapper will peck sometimes & it makes it stay on the hook better Yeah it works but live or fresh dead are better
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There’s recipes online somewhere for making pork rind trailers and pork fat frogs. Supposed to have an amazing action in the water as far as wiggle and jiggle.
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you had to mention white fish now i am hankering for them smoked from the cold water of lake Huron have to wait a bit till it turns colder witch of November time
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Used to be sold in jars at tackle stores Uncle Josh was the popular choice IIRC 60yrs ago for LMB Ol’ school flippin’
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