Smoked Walleye, very tasty!!! (pics)

[ICEGUY]

Caught these 4 nice walleye handling MC Sunday morning, just downriver from Lambton plant.
http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/medium/100_0547.JPG
I cut off fins with wire cutters, cut off head, tail, gutted and washed.
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Then cut each fish into appx. 4 peices.
Mix brine in plastic bucket, 1 gallon water, 2 3/4 cup Morton Coarse Kosher Salt, 1 3/4 cup lite brown sugar. Mix up brine and wait 5 minutes, them mix brine again making sure salt disolved. Put peices of walleye in brine, put something heavy on top to keep fish submerged, I use a glass plate. Put in fridge for 14 hours.
Take out and pat dry with paper towel and let sit at room temperature for 45min.


Put in smoker for 190 degrees for 3 hours 15 minutes using about 4 oz. of hickory wood. My smoker in electric with a temperature gauge. Here it is...
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I know it is a simple brine recipe, but it is very good. :D
tightlinesyall

[fish eater]

Makes my mouth water. Save some for me!:)

[Ed Stringer]

WOW !!!! Steve you are the master of good grocery caribou sticks in the winter and now smoked eyes :p sweet............... Thanks I was looking for something differant to do with eyes.

[Frozenfish]

Wow, those look tasty:yikes:

[Ed Michrina]

Iceguy great photos looks like good stuff. Did you use any of the other ingredients shown in the photo, like the rib rub ect?

[Jigawhat]

wow... that looks good. Do you have any other recipes for after they are smoked? (spreads, dips, salad, etc?)
Thanks for the tips. great pics.
-Jig

[mwp]

Wow,lunch won't come soon enough for me!!Great catch,great dinner!!simple but tasty!!what time was dinner again?

[ICEGUY]

wow... that looks good. Do you have any other recipes for after they are smoked? (spreads, dips, salad, etc?)
Thanks for the tips. great pics.
-Jig

No, the rib and chicken rubs were just on my counter.
I just eat em with some hunk extra sharp cheddar cheese and crackers. I plan on smoking a lot more and I will vacuum seal and freeze some to bring on the next Spuds and Suds outing :grouphug: this winter for all to try. And yes Ed I will bring some carribou hot sticks as well . tightlinesyall

[andy capp]

Man that was good, thanks steve. Let me see what I can catch tonight.

[MUSHY1]

Hey Ice Guy, did you fish the Marble Eye, or where you just fishing up there?
The St.clair River is full with nice fish right now, we beatem up pretty good this weekend. Nice job on the fish, but the only thing i like to smoke, is fish like Lake Salmon and Lakers that arent as good eatin as Walleye's and Perch.

Mushy

[Tin Can]

Great Post, I have heard that you can smoke eye's but, had also heard that they would be dry. I like to smoke meat and salmon, now I will try smoking walleye

Thanks for the Great Info.

Eric

[andy capp]

Steves was not dry at all, actually could have went a little longer.

[midwestfisherman]

D@mn!! Those look good!!

[fatboy]

Great post with pictures ! Gotta get my new smoker put together soon.

[I'llbeoutside]

Great pics and great timing. I was just reading up on the smoker (elec.) my g-pa gave me. It is a little older but never used. I was thinking about breaking it in this weekend. That helped motivate me a little more. I think I will try a chicken or roast first. I have not been catching enough walleye to experiment on :bash: . Looks awesome though!!

[youngbuck26]

Memories....Where is our Ice anyways? I can't wait to try some of the Walleye, I will be waiting very patiantly for this outing next winter. Nice catch

Joe

[Deep River]

The walleye turned out great.
Next time we go out, I'm smoking my catch in your smoker!!

You got a full boat next weekend Iceguy?
If your going out with your brother let him know I'm tagging along!!
& tell them other yahoo's its my turn!!

[ted stehney]

Boy does that look goooooood.

[ICEGUY]

The walleye turned out great.
Next time we go out, I'm smoking my catch in your smoker!!

You got a full boat next weekend Iceguy?
If your going out with your brother let him know I'm tagging along!!
& tell them other yahoo's its my turn!!

I know this sounds funny but......who the hell are ya? :confused:

There is a little fishing derby going on this Friday night. Dad and his buds, me and my buds, and relatives from Hubbard Lake will be here. Me, probably my brother and Dennis will be in my boat.

My dad just smoked 6 big walleyes yesterday along with one nice salmon he got a couple of weeks ago at Blue Water Bridge. He said they turned out great. seeya and tightlinesyall

[I'llbeoutside]

That does sound funny!! Very funny :lol: !!

[Deep River]

Ill give you a hint...

If Denis is going, Paul is not.

[Ed Michrina]

A Big thanx to iceguy. I attempted some smoked walleye today and it turned out great. Smoked 4 trays with 4 sides each. I used the recipe listed but smoked with a mix of fresh apple and oak. The photo is after eating and giving sides to neighbors who smoke Salmon for me. Good stuff. I like every bit as much as smoked salmon. Thanx again Steve!!! Next I'll have to figure out how Ice guy steakes the eyes?

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k142/EdMich/PB070042.jpg

[Slick fishing]

Cant get over that I missed this thread, looks awesome I guess I will have to break out the smoker and give it a whirl looks mighty tasty.. I also need to make some more of Ed's and Scotts bacon wrap walleye awesome stuff my belly is rumbling just thinking about it:lol: ... Cya Slick

[andy capp]

Steve made some Dip out of the smoked walleye that is excellent as well. He just stopped by my desk and I loaded a few crackers up.

I'll type the recipie cause Im nice:

1 lb Smoked fish ( cleaned and deboned)
1lb Cream Cheese
4 tbsp Sour Cream
2 tbsp Mayonaise
2 tsp Tabasco
2 Cloves garlic Minced
1/2 cup onion finely chopped
1tsp pepper
1/2 tsp Dill
2 pinch Paprika
Juice of 1 lemon ( optional )

Mix all ingredients, add smoked fish, Mix again and chill for at least 1 hour before eating

[ICEGUY]

Thanks Andy. I will bring you in some smoked walleye fillets tomorrow. Unless you prefer steaks,,,I have both right now. seeyalater

[Deep River]

I was just looking around the internet when I came across that recipe and decided to make it with some smoked walleye that me & ICEGUY caught.

I didn't have a scale to measure the poundage so mine could have used more fish in the batch.

Also the smoked walleye we did were staked not fillet. They were harder to debone.

I liked ICEGUY's batch better. They were fillet and the dip was more smokey because more of the fish is exposed when smoking.