PICKLED NORTHERN PIKE


mike olson

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Put chunked pike in a glass container and add sea salt,waterand let sit for 48 hours .take out drain and wash off fish with cold water. then put fish and sliced onions in layers with peppercorns and some pickleing spice,then white vinager and let sit for 5 days EAT! how do you do it !??
 
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Pike is my FAV fish sure theres a ton a bones but when you know how to clean em quick then they cant be beat...My fav way to eat Pike is to boil for 55 seconds then dip in melted garlic butter "Land loaked lobster" YUM!! but i have never tried em pickled and looking forward to giving it a try...Thanx Mike
 
I've never had Pike...guess there's not enough snow here in Ga...LOL...I have had "Land Locked Lobster" before though...it was not pike...it was halibut that was done the same way...boiled for an exact amount of time in some type of spices, then dipped in butter...AWESOME stuff!!! Wonder if you could do bass or bream strips/chunks the same way?
 
Mike, do the bones dissolve? I've ate canned sucker and you can't even tell there's bones in them, they just get soft and dissolve.

Sounds good!
 
well if you cut em up right you can get five fillets(didnt watch video yet by the way). Pike is awesome fish with a nice taste. Seems the only time I get a worthy one is when Im ice fishing up in WS. Although I just fry my pike when I do decide to eat a fish(Im mostly CPR unless Im super hungry)the pickled pike sounds awesome, thanks again Mike, Ill have to try it.
 
That reminds me of a story I read long ago. It was in the back of I believe a Sports Afield, way back when they actually had stories and were not just ads you pay to read. It was funny as heck and entitled "Pickling pike is permissible, anything else is not" it went through diffrent cooking methods for pike each with a disasterous result. Wow funny the things you remember................
 
Mmmmmm. Been almost 40 years since I had pickled pike...or caught one for that matter.
 
Pike are great eats. I am waiting for the lakes to ice over so that I can get the shanty out and spear them through the ice. I have never had them pickled, might have to give that a try.
 
Ahnkochee said:
I LOVE both pickled herring, and mackerel. No pike here, maybe i'll try Kawale'a aka barracuda. ;)
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Basically the same thing...

I have never caught a pike either, though not for lack of trying. Sounds like a good way to prepare them. How long does it last pickled? Does it need refridgeration? I assume you don't have to cook it.
 
i referg. it and as far as self life its been brined and pickled > a long time but there good so they go fast !
 
Normally I end up with northern chunks rather than anything that looks like a good filet. If I am eating in northern pike country, I generally will pick up a walley for lunch, but I do like the taste of northern, so next time I will give the new technique a shot. I might ditch my walley gear altogether and just go with the Musky set up.

Thanks for the tip.
 
Used to can jars of pickled pike or suckers in a simple brine. Couldn't even tell they had bones. Beauty is varying the recipe so you have lots of variety to offer guests. Served on Ritz crackers is tradition.
 
Pickled Northerns are AWESOME. We always considered catching a pike a bonus while we were walleye fishing. Grandma would pickle em and oh boy they were good. We'd arm wrestle for the last few bites.. Good stuff and good time...
 
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