11-27-2002, 01:57 PM
[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Here's a good website, from the state of Utah, on Bear Lake species, etc. [url "http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/bearlakeinfo.htm"]http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/bearlakeinfo.htm[/url] [/size][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Whitefish are definitely not members of the herring family, in spite of the fact that Utah "tanglers" have called whitefish "herring" for a hundred years. They also used to refer to walleyes as "pike". Everybody used to throw perch up on the bank as "trash fish" too. That would get you shot at Deer Creek these days, but the shoreline used to be littered with dead perch.[/size][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Since the Bonneville whitefish grows up to 4 pounds, their bones will be larger than smaller mountain whitefish...or Bear Lake whitefish. But, the skeleton is still virtually the same. They still have the fine flesh bones...as do ALL members of the salmonid and whitefish clans.[/size][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]I also smoke a lot of different kinds of fish, and whitefish are a prime subject for the smoker. Many fly floggers fish the Weber and other open winter waters for whitefish, just to fill their smokers.[/size][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]As far as eating them..."Everybody to their own tastes, said the old maid as she kissed the cow."[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Whitefish are definitely not members of the herring family, in spite of the fact that Utah "tanglers" have called whitefish "herring" for a hundred years. They also used to refer to walleyes as "pike". Everybody used to throw perch up on the bank as "trash fish" too. That would get you shot at Deer Creek these days, but the shoreline used to be littered with dead perch.[/size][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Since the Bonneville whitefish grows up to 4 pounds, their bones will be larger than smaller mountain whitefish...or Bear Lake whitefish. But, the skeleton is still virtually the same. They still have the fine flesh bones...as do ALL members of the salmonid and whitefish clans.[/size][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]I also smoke a lot of different kinds of fish, and whitefish are a prime subject for the smoker. Many fly floggers fish the Weber and other open winter waters for whitefish, just to fill their smokers.[/size][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]As far as eating them..."Everybody to their own tastes, said the old maid as she kissed the cow."[/size][/font]
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