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Location: Musky Country | Our Tulibee season has kicked off this morning still slow but will get better.
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| Gooooooooood eats man, good eats. |
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| Are there other ways to prepare these, or just smoked? I know one guy who tipped a Muskie jig with a piece of Tulibee, but I don't think it paid off. Crappie are about the best tasting fish there are. |
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Location: Musky Country | Smoke'em and enjoy  |
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| Madmanmusky - 3/13/2008 6:25 PM
Smoke'em and enjoy :-O
That. I've had them fried, as well, not as good as smoked. |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | I would think that baking them or grilling them would be good. They're an oily fish so you need to cook some of that out if you want it to taste good. I've created a new recipe that would probably be good with that fish.
Try this:
1/4 cup soy sauce
2-4 cloves crushed garlic
1 tbls ginger
1/4 orange (squeeze into the mixture)
Mix and put on the fish when you bake them or marinate them if you're going to grill. Be sure to brush more on after each time you flip the fish.
While you're preparing that:
1 cup whipping cream (not whip cream)
1 Tbls wasabi
1/4 orange (squeese into the mixture)
Orange peel shavings (for presentation)
Mix and simmer it down to 1/2 the original volume. Add this around the fish after you place it on the plate.
Funny how someone can get into cooking when your wife is never around... |
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Location: Bemidji/Cass Lake | I have always wanted to get into fishing for tulibee and whitefish during ice season. I read about it and sometimes screw around a little but never concentrate enough at it. May ask what you look for in an area to do it. We catch them occasionally high up in the water column when fishing perch but that's not unless we are fishing 15ft and more. I remember one time a few years ago we had a hole that kept kicking out whitefish one after another. That hole was in about 7ft of water.
Generally should I be looking for a soft bottom(mud) to fish over? I know they will use all depths in the column. Or should I just get over the deepest water I can in the lake? I've just not done it enough and now is the time to learn. The few I've caught have been on minnow heads but imagine waxies would be better. Any advice?
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Location: Musky Country | We fish them in about 35 ft watching the vexilar, there up and down in the water column. Any deep water adjacent to shallow sand flats has been the ticket for us
Waxies does it for me. Have fun hope you catch a bunch!!!. |
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Location: So. Illinois | Are Tulibees primarily targeted during the cold water months. I didn't know they were of any value as a table fish. Do you smoke them whole or clean them first (fillet or gut and remove the head)?
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Location: Musky Country | I remove the head, gut and smoke with alittle brown sugar.
Man they are the best smoked fish!!!! |
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Location: Bemidji/Cass Lake | I have a question associated with it.
I've never spent time after them much in the winter. The few I have caught have been by accident for the most part. I live on the Cass Lake chain which is chock full of tulibee and whitefish. A few years ago during March we caught a lot of whitefish in about 7ft during March. Hasn't happened again. I mess around with fishing for these fish a little bit but not enough. What should I be looking for right now? A soft bottom? Hard bottom? Deepest holes in the lake? The few I have caught over the years were caught perch fishing with minnow heads. I imagine waxies are probably better. Any advice?
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Location: Musky Country | Madmanmusky - 3/14/2008 7:03 AM
We fish them in about 35 ft watching the vexilar, there up and down in the water column. Any deep water adjacent to shallow sand flats has been the ticket for us
Waxies does it for me. Have fun hope you catch a bunch!!!.
Small plain hooks tips with wax worms then about 3ft of 6lbs line tied to a barrel swivel then a 6in flasher then another swivel.
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Location: Cass Lake | Sackett,
Look for a soft bottom area, preferably the deepest spot in a bay area. Second choice would be adjacent to one of the steepest drop offs you can find with a point or neckdown area to concentrate them. Third spot on Cass that works good is the various humps after dark. Pike Bay can be a little better action though so you might want to try heading down there. I use a Northland buckshot spoon or a spoon with a chain dropper and put about three larva on it. Hope this helps you out!
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | Brian,
Have you noticed any significant difference in where you catch whitefish versus tulibees? I've never actually targeted either. But I've noticed that the whitefish that I've caught are generally much shallower. I haven't caught enough to know if this is typical or if it's just been coincidence
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Location: Cass Lake | Aaron,
All the whitefish we have caught over the years have been shallow, 3-8 feet and not trying for them. A lot of people target them when they raid the shallows in the fall. Have seen them schooled up with big groups of walleye until the water gets too warm for them and they start to drop down lower in the water column.
We have caught cisco as shallow as 10-11 feet on 2 inches of ice in mid November with musky chasing them while they are trying to make cisco love. Most of the cisco are 15-45 feet down when I target them over a hump or deep basin. They fight great for there size but I would rather eat bluegills and perch.
Brian
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| how big were those ciscos? |
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Location: oswego, il | Hey, I have a trip to vermillion booked in august. How thick do you think the ice will be and where are some good places to jig for them there? 
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