minnows???

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first off, hi all!
i've been out in the bush for a long while in the far north of ontario, i'm back around algonquin now and have the internet again. i have several reviews on their way. new knife, new tarp and so on. but the pics aren't uploaded yet.
here are some minnows from the area i use for fishing, anyone here eat minnows??? i've heard varying opinions.
what should a person know about these small critters before eating? how to prepare them?
the a properly set trap, in the right area, baited appropriately and so forth i can get 5 dozen per trap per 12hour (night-time) without any problems, often more. here are a few pics.
KEEP IN MIND-with all of my postings this weekends, these pictures were all taken from a month ago until now. the minnows now are fatter and healthier, i'll find some newer pictures later today and tomorrow.
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If the water is clean then there's no reason why you couldn't eat them whole, including the guts, gills head and bones.

I'm sure you North Americans do what we do with little fish. With little sea fish fry that we call whitebait, we just toss them in flour, fry them and squeeze lemon juice on top, delicious. When fish get over 4 inches long then the guts can make them taste bitter.
 
When I lived in Japan the basic rule was if it's smaller than your finger then you cook it whole. If it's larger then you gut it.

When I spent time with the Hilltribe People of SE Asia (mostly with the Yellow Lahu in northern Thailand on the Myanmar border) my first meal with them was little tiny fish with rice. I lived in Japan at the time so without thinking I started to eat them whole. When I looked up the whole family was staring at me in horror, because that cave man of an American explorer was eating the fish whole. What they did was they would cook the fish and then pull off the tiny fillets on each side with their fingers, discarding the rest. A whole lot of work for a very small amount of fish!

You don't even want to hear about my first bathing experience with them!
 
kage said:
When I lived in Japan the basic rule was if it's smaller than your finger then you cook it whole. If it's larger then you gut it.

When I spent time with the Hilltribe People of SE Asia (mostly with the Yellow Lahu in northern Thailand on the Myanmar border) my first meal with them was little tiny fish with rice. I lived in Japan at the time so without thinking I started to eat them whole. When I looked up the whole family was staring at me in horror, because that cave man of an American explorer was eating the fish whole. What they did was they would cook the fish and then pull off the tiny fillets on each side with their fingers, discarding the rest. A whole lot of work for a very small amount of fish!

You don't even want to hear about my first bathing experience with them!
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I DO! I DO! (he says while jumping around :rolleyes: )

Doc
 
I'd cut the head off of the second one with the bumps on it (pustules, blisters- I don't know but some arctic fish develop blisters like that on the inside surface from a pathogen- we tossed the entire fish at the plant if that happened and disinfected everything when one was found. Lab tests came back a little different each time we sent them in). I was wondering the same thing yesterday as the "lake" near our house had hundreds of them at the surface, making it look like rain on a cloudless day. I would probably dry them and powder them on a day like yesterday. That way the guts aren't as "yucky" to our civilized palates.

Yorkshire- I've never seen anybody cook them like that and thus have never eaten them like that. In fact the closest I've come is canned sardines- although I am in Beef Country, where very little fish gets into the diet (thank goodness my daughter likes fish too).

Can't wait to see the rest of the trip- maybe in a year or two for me once my career gets a solid footing.
 
I've eaten minnows pretty regularly on longer hikes. I keep rice as a staple for my ten day plus hikes and minnows are easy to catch and add protein. I didn't always care if they were cooked well but I have learned that lesson the hard way. I got a tapeworm, likely from undercooked fish on the trail, so now I make sure I cook them all the way through.
The tapeworm sucked but the meds to kill it sucked much more.
 
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