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Walleye or pike on your plate.
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mnmusky
Posted 8/10/2016 9:31 AM (#826717)
Subject: Walleye or pike on your plate.




Which would you rather eat. Poll strictly for taste preference. Not to include ease of cleaning, abundance, etc....
Got in a discussion with a co worker on what fish tastes better. Ive had both fresh side by side and no doubt , i prefer one over the other.
As did the group i was with.
Fish4muskie
Posted 8/10/2016 9:43 AM (#826721 - in reply to #826717)
Subject: Re: Walleye or pike on your plate.




Posts: 112


Location: Illinois
Pike.
MOJOcandy101
Posted 8/10/2016 9:44 AM (#826723 - in reply to #826717)
Subject: Re: Walleye or pike on your plate.





Posts: 705


Location: Alex or Alek?
Pike is great but I love my eyes. If Pike get pulled out of really warm water the meat can get mushy, maybe its my mind playing tricks on me.
sworrall
Posted 8/10/2016 9:52 AM (#826726 - in reply to #826717)
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Posts: 32761


Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Pike. We take a couple trips to North Dakota every year to fish pike just because we like to eat 'em.
Fishysam
Posted 8/10/2016 9:57 AM (#826728 - in reply to #826717)
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Posts: 1209


Pike caught winter through spring in nd, Steve where about do you fish in nd?
esoxaddict
Posted 8/10/2016 10:20 AM (#826736 - in reply to #826728)
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Posts: 8703


Pike. Hands down. We'll take some walleyes here and there, but I'd rather eat pike. Added bonus is there are a lot of lakes that are overrun with them so you don't have to feel bad about harvesting them. Bad part is I suck at getting the Y bones out of 'em.

Edited by esoxaddict 8/10/2016 10:29 AM
Musky952
Posted 8/10/2016 10:27 AM (#826740 - in reply to #826717)
Subject: Re: Walleye or pike on your plate.




Posts: 400


Location: Metro
I am a little surprised that so many people would rather have pike. I always thought that walleye was the fish to have on your plate if you were going to eat fish. Is the big deterrent the fact that they are a more difficult fish to cut?
MOJOcandy101
Posted 8/10/2016 10:30 AM (#826743 - in reply to #826740)
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Posts: 705


Location: Alex or Alek?
Musky952 - 8/10/2016 10:27 AM

Is the big deterrent the fact that they are a more difficult fish to cut?


If you don't know what you're doing you'll be eating bones. Or taking 10 minutes a fillet.

Pike have a another set of bones (Y-bones) that you don't have to worry about in most other fish.
musky23
Posted 8/10/2016 10:43 AM (#826748 - in reply to #826717)
Subject: RE: Walleye or pike on your plate.




Posts: 186


Location: West Chicago, IL
100% pike......never even thought of pike as a good fish to eat and then one day someone had me do the "Pepsi Challenge" with Pike vs Walleye and I definitely preferred the pike......by a lot. Has a great sweet flavor where the walleye is more bland
BNelson
Posted 8/10/2016 11:04 AM (#826754 - in reply to #826717)
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Location: Contrarian Island
Pike for sure... get the bones out, chunk them up and fry them up... nothing better.. we ate some last week in Canada and we ate walleyes too... I'll take pike over walleye any day up there! soooo goooood

Edited by BNelson 8/10/2016 11:07 AM
KenK
Posted 8/10/2016 11:10 AM (#826756 - in reply to #826717)
Subject: Re: Walleye or pike on your plate.





Posts: 574


Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI
There was no option for "I don't like fish"! I'll take the bone-in Ribeye!
BretRobert1
Posted 8/10/2016 11:20 AM (#826760 - in reply to #826756)
Subject: Re: Walleye or pike on your plate.




Posts: 40


No question, pike.
sworrall
Posted 8/10/2016 11:27 AM (#826763 - in reply to #826728)
Subject: Re: Walleye or pike on your plate.





Posts: 32761


Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
North Dakota Pike fishing is unreal, and tip up ice fishing absolutely off the charts.
Devils and some lakes South of there.
NPike
Posted 8/10/2016 11:33 AM (#826764 - in reply to #826763)
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Posts: 612


I like them both, but given a choice I will take walleye.
Flambeauski
Posted 8/10/2016 11:36 AM (#826767 - in reply to #826717)
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Posts: 4343


Location: Smith Creek
If the choice is between eating a pike or walleye that's been cooking in its own slime in a 100 degree livewell all day, I'll take the walleye. Same if it was cleaned and frozen.

Fresh, well cared for? Pike.
muskyhunter47
Posted 8/10/2016 11:37 AM (#826768 - in reply to #826763)
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Posts: 1638


Location: Minnesota
Given that for a choice ill take pike. I was shown by a resort owner how to take the Y boons out when i was around 12 years old after that my dad made me the fish cleaner.
esoxaddict
Posted 8/10/2016 11:40 AM (#826769 - in reply to #826763)
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Posts: 8703


Stumbled on it by accident. Had one die on me and decided I'd give it a try. These days a lot of them die on me.
Pepper
Posted 8/10/2016 1:09 PM (#826787 - in reply to #826717)
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Posts: 1516


I guess I prefer a walleye. Either way if u plan to keep some to eat the best way to keep them fresh is to bonk them and put them on ice till you get to the cleaning table. They are a lot easier to clean than when they a parboiled in the deadwell all afternoon.
muskyroller
Posted 8/10/2016 1:32 PM (#826792 - in reply to #826717)
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Posts: 1039


Location: North St. Paul, MN
Pike - bigger, meatier

Watch the YouTube videos on how to take out the Y bones...then, practice! 25-28 inchers are my wheel house. Under that, and getting the Y bones is a little trickier and I end up butchering the "good meat." I don't like keeping them over that.

Lac Seul has a strict "catch and kill" policy on fish you're keeping. So, for years we've been bonking them and putting them on ice. Best thing for fresh tasting fish...get em' on ice!!! Stayed at a lodge on Eagle and the resort employees thought we were nuts when we brought our fish in dead/on ice.
Jeremy
Posted 8/10/2016 2:35 PM (#826803 - in reply to #826717)
Subject: Re: Walleye or pike on your plate.




Posts: 1126


Location: Minnesota.
I'm the odd-man-out here but unless they're sunnies to me (and likely me only) fish are good for two things, puttin' back an' pushin' up tomatoes...

Okay, I'll defer from that a tad -- on our family vacations when I'll eat a pike or two and/or a few walleyes but - if there's a burger nearby all bets are off!

I know, I'm odd.
MOJOcandy101
Posted 8/10/2016 2:51 PM (#826805 - in reply to #826803)
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Posts: 705


Location: Alex or Alek?
Jeremy - 8/10/2016 2:35 PM

I'm the odd-man-out here but unless they're sunnies to me (and likely me only) fish are good for two things, puttin' back an' pushin' up tomatoes...


If crappies was a option, I'd be changing my vote.
Travis A.
Posted 8/10/2016 3:20 PM (#826811 - in reply to #826717)
Subject: Re: Walleye or pike on your plate.





Posts: 157


Location: Lincoln, NE
Never had pike and I hear it's great but if done right hands down flathead catfish over walleye all day every day.
Shep
Posted 8/10/2016 4:11 PM (#826815 - in reply to #826811)
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Posts: 5874


I get plenty of walleye to eat every year, so I picked Pike, which I don't get to eat very often. Pike is really good if prepared and cooked properly.

Cut the gills to bleed them out, and put them on ice immediately.

Get JoMusky to make his Blackened Pike and dirty rice for supper! Best Pike recipe ever!



Edited by Shep 8/10/2016 4:12 PM
JakeStCroixSkis
Posted 8/10/2016 5:13 PM (#826818 - in reply to #826717)
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Posts: 1425


Location: St. Lawrence River
I am so surprised with you Midwesterners.. I thought I would be in the minority here. Definitely pike! We fish for pike in the winter a lot, I truly prefer them over walleyes. Nothing against eating walleye.

If anyone has trouble dealing with the sliminess you get sometimes with northerns, try this.. Wring a newspaper down the pike from top to bottom. It will stick right to the fish and take so much gunk off the thing its not even funny. Works great.

Edited by JakeStCroixSkis 8/10/2016 5:17 PM
R code
Posted 8/10/2016 6:37 PM (#826828 - in reply to #826717)
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Posts: 268


Location: SE WISCONSIN
Pike
Pointerpride102
Posted 8/10/2016 8:16 PM (#826839 - in reply to #826828)
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Posts: 16632


Location: The desert
Pike. It's not close.
esoxaddict
Posted 8/10/2016 8:33 PM (#826844 - in reply to #826717)
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Posts: 8703


Sooo, okay...

Lots of guys love pike. Let's talk about preparation!

Never thought of gilling them or packing them in ice, because all but one or two were still alive when filleted and found their way into shore lunch and butter within 30 minutes of meeting their maker.

What do you guys do with the occasional pike that may not get eaten for 12 hours or more?
ulbian
Posted 8/10/2016 8:43 PM (#826846 - in reply to #826844)
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Posts: 1168


Pike is by far my favorite freshwater fish to eat. The only thing that comes remotely close would be perch. Walleyes? Blech...just don't care for them. I'd trade a freezer full of walleyes for 3 or 4 decent pike.

I don't bleed mine out and I don't wipe the slime off before cleaning them. Never ever had an issue with funky tasting meat off of a pike but with any freshwater fish I try to avoid eating ones taken out of excessively warm water.

Baked, broiled, deep fried, grilled, pan fried, boiled...it's all good. If I had to pick one way to make it I'd have to go with boiling it up as poor man's lobster. Pike meat is so much more versatile than many other kinds of freshwater fish and the flavor is incredible.
sworrall
Posted 8/10/2016 9:48 PM (#826856 - in reply to #826717)
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Posts: 32761


Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
I found Wabigoon pike to be the best I have ever had, with Devils Lake shrimp fed pike a close second. The meat from DL pike is orange from them eating tons of shrimp.Best boiled pike ever.

That said, we went to a numbers lake a put a couple meals of crappies in the fridge. I am looking forward to that...
muskyroller
Posted 8/10/2016 10:56 PM (#826861 - in reply to #826856)
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Posts: 1039


Location: North St. Paul, MN
Tell us about boiling, please. Interested in this. What do you do after boiling? I have some vacuum packed, in the freezer from last month needing to get eaten! I usually just batter em up lightly and fry them.
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