Outdoors extras, including a salmon recipe

Posted on: January 30, 2018 | Bob Frye | Comments

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Lure of the week

Lure name: Rainbow Smelt

A good salmon recipe

Rainbow smelt

Company: Live Target Lures (www.livetargetlures.com)

Lure type: Jerkbait

Sizes and colors: This comes in three sizes: 2 ¾ inches and 1/8-ounce, 3 5/8 inches and 5/16 ounces, and 4 ½ inches and 5/8 ounces. Three colors are available, silver/blue, silver/black and gold/black.

Target species: Largemouth, smallmouth and striped bass, northern pike.

Technique: The rainbow smelt is a primary forage fish in locations all across North America. This lure is meant to replicate that favorite prey of predatory species. It will work even where smelt do not normally occur, however, as its action can be similar to many kinds of baitfish. Cast and retrieve it at varying speeds until you find what the fish want. It’s meant to perform equally well whether drug back slowly or quickly.

Sugg. retail price: $13.99.

Notable: There are shallow and deep diving models in each size. The shallow divers go three to five feet, depending on model, while the deep divers go to five to nine feet, depending on size

Tip of the week

We’ve all been there. The fishing is going really well, then the fish seem to turn off. The reality is, hungry fish may remain. But they’re different, more cautious, less aggressive. And it takes changing techniques to get them. One trick that often works, whether fishing through the ice or open water, is to change the way your bait falls. If you’ve been jigging vertically, jerk it side to side on the way up before letting it flutter back down. Or, if you can manipulate where you tie on your hook, move the anchor point forward or back to make the lure fall differently.

Recipe of the week

Like salmon broil

Ingredients

  • 1 pound salmon fillets, skin on
  • ½ cup fresh lime juice
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup soy sauce
  • ¼ cup butter
  • minced garlic to taste
  • salt and pepper to taste

Directions

This recipe calls for salmon, but you can substitute steelhead, too. Both fish cook up equally well.

Gently sauté the garlic in the melted butter. Stir in the lime juice, brown sugar and soy.

Let that cool, then marinate the salmon fillets in it, giving it at least an hour to soak up the flavors. Next, put the fillets in a shallow baking dish, skin side up, and broil for five minutes.

Turn the fish, baste with the marinade – which may need reheated to loosen it – then broil another five minutes, or until the fish flakes easily.

Bob Frye is the everybodyadventures.com editor. Reach him at 412-838-5148 or bfrye@535mediallc.com. See other stories, blogs, videos and more at everybodyadventures.com.

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