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Location: Garrison, Mn | So anybody have a good recipie for musky? Talked to a guy today who caught a 52.5" musky and it inhaled the bait. They spent 45 mins trying to revive it but it died on them. They left it hoping it would come around. I went out to where they caught it and found it after a 3 minute search. Still had colors and spots so figured it was good to eat. Layed the blade to it, and just wondering if i fry it for lunch. Pickle it, or???? Never ate a muskie so not sure what tastes the best. I'm a actually excited to fill my body with heavy metals. I'm thinking treat it like a northern and fry it. Somebody told me to smoke it. Have a trash bag with 20bs of fillets in the fridge. Hey, just glad i found i, and it didn't go to waste. So want to make the best meal possible out of it. |
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Location: Minnesota | Not too bad smoked. some guys bake em out, but never tried it personally. |
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Location: The desert | Fried is good. |
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Location: Wakefield, MI | We had a 47" die on us, was good fried. Lots of meals from one fish!
Edited by milje 7/19/2014 11:39 PM
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Location: Smith Creek | Fried is good, or poached with some seafood boil seasoning. |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Try baked...cover with strips of bacon, wrap in tin foil and baste often with butter! YUM!
Edited by Larry Ramsell 7/20/2014 8:07 AM
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| I have Baked a couple back in the 70's---A little salt / pepper / Lemon and you are good to go. Ours were small fish Like 30-34 "---They were awesome Baked. Not sure if a large one would taste any different. |
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| Seems like less work to just go out in the garage and hit yourself in the head with a hammer. |
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Location: Cave Run Lake KY. | Larry Ramsell - 7/20/2014 9:06 AM
Try baked...cover with strips of bacon, wrap in tin foil and baste often with butter! YUM! XXXXXXXXX Excellent If your getting a skin mount of a 50"er have the taxidermist save you 3 roasts for in the oven put in deep roasting pan with a can of mushroom soup , mushrooms, Bay leafs, Pepercorns, and cover with bacon strips. I had to save one musky every year for Easter dinner. Larry has it right YUM-YUM Marv.
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| esoxaddict - 7/20/2014 12:56 PM
Seems like less work to just go out in the garage and hit yourself in the head with a hammer.
Is this supposed to be humorous? Like funny like a clown maybe like haha funny? TF? |
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Location: Garrison, Mn | Pan frying as we speak. Initial reports are it is excellent. Still have the other side, will bake it. Just got another really good. Anyone ever need a dump spot for a dead musky you got my contact |
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Location: Garrison, Mn | If anyone ever tells you musky tastse like crap or taste like northern. They are lying. This is probably the one of the best fried fish i have ever had. 10x's better than northern. 1 side fed 6 adults and 11 kids.?? |
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| Minnows 2 Muskies - 7/20/2014 1:26 PM
If anyone ever tells you musky tastse like crap or taste like northern. They are lying. This is probably the one of the best fried fish i have ever had. 10x's better than northern. 1 side fed 6 adults and 11 kids.??
I have never had muskie, but I always suspected they would taste good. Even the big ones.
You don't like northern? I've always considered northern to be one of the best tasting fish. I would put northern up against walleye any day. I think the key is to keep the slime under control.
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Location: oswego, il | Tastes like chicken |
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Location: Garrison, Mn | Jimmy, i like northern. What I was trying to convey was it tastes like muskie, and it was real good |
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| OMG! The Horror! It would be like eating one of my children. |
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Location: Metro, MN | Same thing happened to a cousin of mine. Ripped the gills straight out on a hookset a few years ago. 42". Had no choice but to keep it. It seriously is the best tasting fish there is. 10x better than pike and even better than a walleye if you ask me. But this thread about cooking muskies still makes my blood boil |
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| I agree with Larry regarding baking. You can stuff them like a turkey too! Back in the 50's to the 70's we kept the legal ones and ate them. |
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Location: Garrison, Mn | This has been fun for me, people have been horrified and peeed when I say I layed the blade to a 52.5" musky. "Why the #!^& would you do that?" I don't tell the full truth at first, then I say, Cause I found it floating belly up it looked pretty fresh, and I got kids to feed, then they do a 180. Next time(if there is) we are going to inpale it and put it along the hwy and write a sign, musky biting here |
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| Just think how many you'd catch if you actually finessed the bait instead of ripping the ever living shart out of it.  |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | Large Muskies have so much mercury in them that it would be like eating toxic waste. Every bit of mercury in every bait fish a Muskie eats stays in the Muskie. Over time that can add up to very high levels. While mercury is not so dangerous to a fish, it is very dangerous to humans and eating a Muskie will increase your body's mercury levels dramatically. Nervous disorders, respiratory problems and even death can result from high levels of mercury poisoning. While one's body will clean itself from mercury over time, as in years, the damage will typically be done by then.
Bottom line: Eating a Muskie is not good for your health.
Edited by Herb_b 7/23/2014 11:02 AM
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Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI | "Bottom line: Eating a Muskie is not good for your health."
Especially kids! I wouldn't have fed it to children. It's one thing to kill yourself, but kids? |
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| Eating one larger (older) fish once in a great while isn't going to kill you or your kids. It certainly won't kill your kids any faster than letting them suck down soda and energy drinks while allowing them to rot their brains away in front of a video game.
If I was unfortunate enough to have one die on me I wouldn't hesitate to butcher the thing up (as long as it's legal to keep the thing) and I won't let others inflict some sort of overwhelming guilt my way because I chowed down on a sacred cow. |
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Location: The desert | Herb_b - 7/23/2014 10:01 AM
Large Muskies have so much mercury in them that it would be like eating toxic waste. Every bit of mercury in every bait fish a Muskie eats stays in the Muskie. Over time that can add up to very high levels. While mercury is not so dangerous to a fish, it is very dangerous to humans and eating a Muskie will increase your body's mercury levels dramatically. Nervous disorders, respiratory problems and even death can result from high levels of mercury poisoning. While one's body will clean itself from mercury over time, as in years, the damage will typically be done by then.
Bottom line: Eating a Muskie is not good for your health.
You are the king of hyperbole. Holy smokes! |
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Location: oswego, il | Musky Mercury has to be healthier than Freddie Mercury.
Edited by ToddM 7/23/2014 12:51 PM
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If you're concerned about ONE musky, I certainly hope you are eating 100% certified organic pork/chicken and grass fed beef. The antibiotics and hormones that are pumped into factory farmed animals aren't good for you either...
Herb_b - 7/23/2014 11:01 AM
Bottom line: Eating a Muskie is not good for your health. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I have consumed so much fish that when it gets hot outside, I am 2" taller. When it's 30 below I am 5" shorter. |
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Location: Smith Creek | ToddM - 7/23/2014 12:50 PM
Musky Mercury has to be healthier than Freddie Mercury.
That comment was more tasteless than overcooked muskie. |
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| Ate one a few years back. Fried half and baked half with the typical lemmon, butter and the like. I liked the fried best myself but both were surprisingly good. Will not hesitate to keep one if it dies on me again, would rather the family eat it then the turtles. |
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Location: Waukesha, WI, USA | Yup, been telling people for years. Muskie taste great! Any fish recipe works. Just cut fish strips small. |
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