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Vroom..vroom...vroom... dont run out of gas before then, what with all the jumping up and down. teehee

lemon,
it just keeps getting better!!!! peg,who is a registered mammographer, just found out about a motorcycle concourse show this saturday. admission is 10/person with all proceeds going to breast cancer research and she DEMANDED that we attend!!!! so seeing a golden oportunaty i said sure if i can go as "harley boy", no helmet and at a high rate of speed!!!! well we are going,full face helmet,jacket with spine protector,shoulder and elbow armor but AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED!!!!!! oh and the vet called the new greyhound came out of surgery ok so we's looking good here!!!!
jack

Was a time way back when the rivers here ran silver with smelt come Febuary or so.
We would go down to the river, and in short order we would dip out all the smelt we would need for the year. some fellas would fill their pick up trucks with the smelt.
It is in this abundance of the little silvery fish some people took to simply tossing the fish in a brine and then smoking them heads guts and all.
Yup, cleaning a ton of 7-10" fish can get a little brain nimbing to say it politly, many simply did the fish just the way they came from the river.
As they purge themselves when they come out of the ocean, there really isn't much of anything in the innards, and you really don't notice much when you chew on them any way, well there is a bit of a crunch. (Folks in the South suck crawdad heads!)
I was sort of brought up dainty by my mom when it came to smelt, as she insisted they were gutted and the head removed.
When cooked it made it much easier to grab the fishes tail in one hand, and flake at the fillet in the down side with a fork. Done just right the whole fillet of that side would simply peel off. Turning the fish over and repeating the process would leave you holding the complete backbone with the ribs intact.
With the States greed for tax monies, and monies for commercial licenses, the smelt fishery here was nearly wiped out, the predeter species in the river now prevent the smelt from getting back to where it used to be, it is so sad.
Hot rods, motorcycles, and bronzed beauties lounging around without tan lines! Along with good BBQ, topped with smoked smelt, dang, I sure am jealous!

Rusty.

Too much testosterone, Rusty! vroom...vroom... to you too!

smoked whole smelts? where can these be purchased?