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How to clean and de-bone a Shad
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Bailey Boat
Old Mossy Horns
Makes sense now, "garnish with bacon". Save the bacon and throw that nasty assed fish in the TRASH!!!
shad aren't "nasty",,,, you just can't fry them up like a dang crappie,,,
but then you don't eat any fish you catch do you? That's the impression I got from your posts over time,,,,
Bailey Boat
Old Mossy Horns
As a matter of fact I don't eat fish, I was "over served" as a kid and never got over it....... And what I mean by over served is if there was fish in the house, it was on the table, again and again and again.....
We were like that with home raised chicken and rabbit- But I’m lucky I guess cause I’ll still eat it. I just don’t want it for days a week.
BLOODBROTHER
Twelve Pointer
That is a lot of work to do for a fish that is really just bait.
Dick
Twelve Pointer
Very cool. crazy amount of bones. That meat sure looks good.
DRS
Old Mossy Horns
I'm going to try this one day. I fried some fresh once, the fish was really good. Never had so many bones in my mouth. Haven't ate any since. I have seen this guy clean them before. I just haven't taken the time to learn how. Seems to be time consuming.
todobien
Eight Pointer
Bailey boat and Bloodbrother don't know if you are confusing these with the shad found in lakes but these are ocean run fish that are beautiful and not slimy like their freshwater cousins. Looks like y'all are both from middle part of state. As a kid growing up in Rowan County I'd watch the Southern Sportsman in his zebra striped boat catching these fish and think yuck and what's the big deal. Closest place to find these great fighters over that way is on the PeeDee below Blewett Falls dam. It is the first dam on the PeeDee/Yadkin system and it blocks their spawning run. They are running now. They are sometimes called poor man's tarpons due to their fight and tendency to jump. They have become one of my favorite fish to catch now days.
Had to laugh when I read the comment about them just being baiat and how many potential baitfish are very tasty - crappie, bream, speckled trout, grey trout, spots, croakers, etc.
I've not filleted them or chunked and fried them but I've slow baked them to where the bones dissolve or get to the texture like in canned salmon and they are very tasty.
Had to laugh when I read the comment about them just being baiat and how many potential baitfish are very tasty - crappie, bream, speckled trout, grey trout, spots, croakers, etc.
I've not filleted them or chunked and fried them but I've slow baked them to where the bones dissolve or get to the texture like in canned salmon and they are very tasty.
Lastfling
Six Pointer
Wonder if chunking and pressure canning would not soften bones for use in fish cakes?
todobien
Eight Pointer
I have heard of folks doing that with herring so it'd probably work for shad too.
warhorse
Eight Pointer
"I take home, grind up, and make fish patty."