Sunfish

Once you have skinned and filleted Sunfish, try this recipe.

You’ll need:

1 lb. sunfish fillets 2 scallionis sliced thin 1 green pepper sliced thin 1 small jar of spaghetti sauce 1 chopped tomato ½ cup water ½ cup white wine Pinch salt

Combine scallions, pepper and sauce. Cover and simmer for r10 minutes. Add fish, salt, tomato nad wine. Simmer, covered, for six minutes. Ladle over rice and rim with parsley.

When you are all done skimming and filleting your sunfish, plant carcasses deep in your tomato patch or rose bed. They make excellent fertilizer.

Fish Loaf

After you fillet your fish, don’t throw away bones. There is still meat attached to them, and you can make a tasty dish with leftovers. Begin by either baking backbone scrapings in a 350 degree Fahrenheit oven or steaming them over boiling water until they are cooked. While fish is cooking, gather following ingredients:

1 cup toasted break cubes 1 small onion, diced 2 stalks celery, diced 1 tsp. salt 1 egg, beaten ½ cup tomato sauce ¾ cup grated cheddar cheese Paprika 1 ¼ cups cooked, flaked fish (from scrapings)

Mix all ingredients except paprika and one-quarter cup of grated cheese in a large bowl. Work in flaked fish until a uniform texture is attained. Spoon mixture into a 9X5-inch bread pan and shape it into a loaf. Spread remaining grated cheese over loaf and sprinkle paprika on top. Bake loaf at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for one hour. Let it cool five to 10 minutes before cutting.

Add chili peppers or hot pepper sauce as desired.

Baked Ciscoes

10 ciscoes, filleted 1 ½ tbsps. Lemon juice 2 cups heavy cream 1 cup light cream 1 ½ tsps. Flour 1 tbsp. butter Salt and pepper Buttered toast

Quarter fiillets. Place fish pieces in a buttered flat baking dish. Sprinkle with lemon juice. Heat butter and flour in saucepan. Add two cups heavy cream and cup of light cream slowly. Bring to boiling point, stirring constantly. Pour sauce over fish and sp rinkle with salt and pepper. Bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for about one hour. Serve fish and sauce on (or with) buttered toast.

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Leader Connection

If you are a fly caster, you know that a smooth connection between leader and fly line is important in presentation. The best way to do this is to nail-knot a six-inch piece of 25-30 pound leader material to end of fly line. A loop like those found on snelled hooks is then tied into opposite end. The connecting leader must also have a loop.

Connecting leader itself is done by passing loop attached to fly line through loop on leader; reaching through fly line loop. Next, grab butt section of leader and pull leader up through until tippet passes loop. Last, just pull loops together by tugging on fly line and butt section in opposite directions.

Strategy

If you are every in a situation where see large brown trout in open water and hold, your best bet is to use a No. 12 Cinnamon Ant and sink it. If this doesn’t work, move to No.16 Adams fly. Still nothing? Switch to No. 20 Black Ant. Last-ditch effort would be to use a 3X tippet and use a No. 6 nymph or streamer.

Typically bigger trout will leave small morsels to small guys, preferring bigger bites that are easy to get. They are very economical feeders.

High Rider Dry Fly’s

If your best dry-fly patterns are failing you, it may be time to switch to spiders and variants. Many times a spider or variant will bring trout to surface, then you can switch back to a conventional dry fly.

These spiders and variants will delicately drop to water, usually somersaulting or jumping after touching it. Fish find this very alluring.

High riding is another attribute of these flies. When tied properly, their hackles support hook above water’s surface, thus imitating a natural fly much more closely than ordinary fly does.

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