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Several years ago someone mentioned to me that they once saw a restaurant with a troutstream going right past the window . In fact the window was one bank of the stream .The idea was you could watch trout fisherman catch your meal . I,m pretty sure this person told me it was in New York . Any of you guys ever hear of it ?
 
Saw a somewhat similar setup once in Belgium, but instead of a troutstream it was a stocked pond. You caught your own dinner (after paying for the privilege) and they cooked it up for you nice and tasty. Makes me wonder why nobody's thought to do that with a catfish restaurant around here, it would sure as heck attract tourists.:D

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Well Kevin since Spark was good enough to give us a Cantina separate from the HI Forum one of the good things about it is that nothing is off topic anymore.:thumbup: :D
Of course any threads truly not suitable will be moved to the appropriate forum.;)
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
Saw a somewhat similar setup once in Belgium, but instead of a troutstream it was a stocked pond. You caught your own dinner (after paying for the privilege) and they cooked it up for you nice and tasty. Makes me wonder why nobody's thought to do that with a catfish restaurant around here, it would sure as heck attract tourists.:D

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Sarge that would be a helluva deal anywhere in the south!!!!:thumbup:
Maybe a good retirement business?;) :D

What kind of fish could there be caught in Belgium?
Trout wouldn't do well in a pond would they?

I have heard about the salmon and salmon fishing in Ireland and Scotland and love their beautiful rivers and streams I've seen in the documentaries.
And the way they keep their rivers are outstanding in anyone's book IMO, at least the one's I've seen in the doc's.!!!!:thumbup:

I once saw a documentary called "Tom's River," I'll never forget it!!!!" The doc was filmed in England and the river was absolutely wonderful!!!!
Clean, clear, and no doubt probably cold as well.
There were several underwater shots and the river was extremely healthy. There were all kinds of aquatic plants and multitudes of fish.
Tom was the caretaker of a section of the river that ran through the owner's property, it was all he did, what a job!!!!:thumbup: :cool:
In one part of the doc the owner and Tom brought out what looked like an antique rod and reel and baited it up. What appeared to be a crawdad was sort of laced up on a hook, never have I seen a hook baited like that!
The owner and Tom took the rig down to a bridge that crossed the river and gently lowered the baited hook down into the river and let the current take it.
It wasn't 10 minutes until they had a hookup and the battle was on.
The fish was finally lead over to the bank after about 20 minutes and the owner told Tom to kill the fish.
The fish appeared to be some kind of Pickerel or similar fish, didn't know they had them in England but I couldn't be real sure what kind of fish it was, just a dayumed nice sized one and I'm sure it made fine eating!!!!:thumbup: :D :cool:
 
I stayed at a lodge in Yamanashi last year with the family.
It was up in the mountains, you know, fishing and wildlife and all that...
The lodge had a restaurant with a shallow stocked pond full of huge, fat and sassy rainbow trout. It was for the diners to look at, not for fishing.
The river you could fish in was devoid of life, as far as I could tell.
Oh man, that was so frustrating.
 
Kevin the grey said:
Several years ago someone mentioned to me that they once saw a restaurant with a troutstream going right past the window . In fact the window was one bank of the stream .The idea was you could watch trout fisherman catch your meal . I,m pretty sure this person told me it was in New York . Any of you guys ever hear of it ?
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Well, there's a restraunt on the Canadian side of Niagra Falls. On the top. Nice place, but I wouldn't go fishing in my hip waders right outside the window.

Sylvrfalcn said:
Saw a somewhat similar setup once in Belgium, but instead of a troutstream it was a stocked pond. You caught your own dinner (after paying for the privilege) and they cooked it up for you nice and tasty. Makes me wonder why nobody's thought to do that with a catfish restaurant around here, it would sure as heck attract tourists.:D
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There's a good place like that in Oak Ridge, TN. At least there was a few years ago. It was called the Crosseyed Cricket. They have ponds stocked with catfish and trout. Also an old mill where they stone-grind corn meal. The food is simple but very good. Catfish and trout minutes old, and wonderful hush puppies from stone-ground corn flour. You can catch the fish yourself or they'll do it for you.

PS - I just checked the web. It's still around. http://www.crosseyedcricket.com/Default.htm

PPS - I just read the website. The owners semi-retired and closed the restaurant and fishing, although they left the campground open. Y'all are a few years too late. --- Dang, those hush puppies were about the best I've ever had.

PPPS - I just remembered dining in Beijing with Red Flower and friends. The waiter brought a pail to the table with a big ugly sturgeon in it. No water. He asked us if we wanted that one cooked up for us, and just then it started moving and flopping, prompting a startled shriek from Red Flower and curious stares from all the adjacent tables. (Red Flower says he made up for startling her by being very tasty!)
 
Howard Wallace said:
PPPS - I just remembered dining in Beijing with Red Flower and friends. The waiter brought a pail to the table with a big ugly sturgeon in it. No water. He asked us if we wanted that one cooked up for us, and just then it started moving and flopping, prompting a startled shriek from Red Flower and curious stares from all the adjacent tables. (Red Flower says he made up for startling her by being very tasty!)
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Sturgeon are definitely ugly and very definitely good eating!!!!:thumbup: :D
Being a prehistoric fish they don't have any bones, only cartilage.
When cleaning a sturgeon you have to make a cut at the base of the head and then feel at the tail for a joint in the vertebrate and carefully cut around that being careful not to slice through the spinal cord. Once the vertebrate is separated the spinal cord can be gently pulled from the spinal column.
When in Washington State we were told the spinal cord had to be removed to keep the meat from tasting bad.
The same thing has to be done with Spoonbill Catfish which aren't really a catfish or nearly. If the spinal cord isn't removed the spine needs to be cut out and the meat carefully washed.
I love eating both the sturgeon and the spoonbill!!!!:thumbup: :D :cool:

Here are some spoonbill otherwise known as paddle fish. Their eggs are very valuable and are used as a poor man's caviar.

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Well here we go , I,ve heard of blackened catfish and I,ve seen blackened duck that was still on fire when they brought it to the table . I betcha that catfish must taste good .

The way that guy described the place with the window/trout satream sounds like a great place as well . Unfortunately I lost track of the gentleman . Ya snooze ya lose .
 
I,ve been to an artificial trout pond and been to a Rich mans farmers market where they had am above ground trout pool where you could catch your trout and bring it home with you . It didn,t catch on with the rich people . I guess it was too much like work to wet a line .

I don,t think it would be the same as being in a restaurant with a stream for a window . I think there would be more to see than just the fish .

I did electrical work in a house that had an underground stream that wanted to run through the basement . The owner actually built a retaining waterproof wall all the way around her basement . She had enough turbine humidity vents in her roof to airlift her house .
 
Kevin,
Nearby Lewistown Montana has a trout stream piped under the city. At least one bar and restaurant has a window dowstairs where you can drink and watch the fish float by.




munk
 
munk said:
Kevin,
Nearby Lewistown Montana has a trout stream piped under the city. At least one bar and restaurant has a window dowstairs where you can drink and watch the fish float by.
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Now thats something ! I would imagine this is a manmade stream and not one that was preserved ? I live in montreal that has had rivers diverted and gorges filled in to make roads .I like it when a city encorporates(bad word)chooses to keep their city in as natural a state as possible . I find that the less people are separated from nature the better they tend to take care of it . I find there is a little less bambi-ism as well .
 
munk said:
Kevin,
Nearby Lewistown Montana has a trout stream piped under the city. At least one bar and restaurant has a window dowstairs where you can drink and watch the fish float by.

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we used to do that at ft. schuyler in the bronx. you could sit & watch the fish float by towards L.I. sound in the bronx river, usually belly up. lotsa bronx river whitefish too. (you don't wanna know what they are), ah, the good ol' days.
 
No, it's a real stream. Over the years various systems have been used to prevent Spring run-off flooding.

There are people fly fishing the stream shortly before and after it disapears into the conduit underground.



munk
 
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