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El Destructo:
I ain't seen a Grayling since the One My Great Grandfather had mounted fell apart from Age...Michigan used to be loaded with Gayling...but they are now Extinct to the State due to Overfishing...Logging....and the Introduction of Non-Native Trout Species wiped out the only chance they had to Survive...and what a Shame that is too...They were such a Beautiful Fish to see
Steve Cover:
--- Quote from: El Destructo on February 11, 2010, 04:22:04 am ---I ain't seen a Grayling since the One My Great Grandfather had mounted fell apart from Age...Michigan used to be loaded with Gayling...but they are now Extinct to the State due to Overfishing...Logging....and the Introduction of Non-Native Trout Species wiped out the only chance they had to Survive...and what a Shame that is too...They were such a Beautiful Fish to see
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Grayling are tasty too.
One of the handy coincidences of being contracted to supporting a survey crew in Alaska, was that we went to areas that few people ventured into because the great hunting and fishing areas were hundreds of miles closer to the populated areas than we were.
Also, there was usually about an hour and a half wait for the surveyors to mark out and set their monuments. In the Brooks Range, the safest landing areas were usually gravel bars on a stream.
So, while the surveyors toiled, I would catch an release fish. Several areas I had to bend down the barbs on my hooks, because I was catching fish on every cast and was looking for an easier way to release them.
Occasionally, I would keep one for dinner, but most fish were released.
Trying to get as much out of a season as we could, we would follow the melt off north in the spring and follow the snow line south in the fall.
We tried Ice fishing in several lakes, but often had no luck in the smaller ones. Like Jude said, I believe they froze solid during the winter.
Steve
DanaM:
Beautiful fish Steve, the Michigan DNR tried reintroducing the grayling but it failed >:(
Someday I will get to Alaska :)
Jude:
Grayling were catch and release only in the management area around Fairbanks, so they are even having trouble up there; very sensitive to environmental disturbance. I left AK in 2007, cause the Army wouldn't let me stay >:( Wish I could get back up there, despite the -40o and lower temps.
stickbender:
Hey der Dana, they have dem Burbots in Montana too ya know......So what is da best way ta cook em hey?
How bout broiling dem with butter (real butter) and lemon, or lime juice, salt and pepper, and a Little garlic, and onion powder?
Ya tink dat would suit em fer dinner? I wonder where they get the names for some of these fish? Burbot......sounds like a tribe on the steppes of Russia! ::) Scrod, mmmmm, doesn't that sound delicious :P......hake.....mmm huh, yeah, that sounds likely to taste good, was that the name of a fish, or did you just cough? ......Hey, what kind of fish is this, ......Hake. what ?..... Haaaaake, snorrrt, awwggghh, patootie! Oh, Hake, never heard of it....are these fish good to eat? Huh? I didn't hear you, I was busy clearing my throat....oh, those, yeah, you can eat em.....I wouldn't, but you can..... ;D Wayne
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