Salmon Fishing 2011, Part 1This past weekend was the first of our Annual Family Salmon Fishing outings. I was hoping for this post to contain a new salmon recipe, but alas…no.
Weekend 1–Salmon – 1, Family – 0.
Tennis shoes are not the proper footwear to start out early in the morning, traipsing through a field. This fog coming off the river should have been my first clue to just head home and change.
But of course, I didn’t. I started out with cold, wet feet and ended the day with cold, wet feet.
Being able to capture the rest of the family through my lens made up for it though.
The kids were the only ones with a catch. Calla is proudly displaying her gobie catch.
Cole landed a perch.
Jay was the closest to a salmon catch. They’re still quite active and were able to outwit him.
Russ and John were here, too!
And Brandi! With a blanket and a book, she’s quite content.
We’re trying again in a couple weekends…hopefully they’ll be in the rivers waiting for us. Stayed tuned for Part 2!
Our fav salmon, from Portland Or:
Clean, remove head (I just don’t care to look at it’s face)
Place fish on large sheet of alum foil.
Inside your fish place many slices of lemon, lemon juice, a few slices of onion if you like, and some lemon pepper. Nothing more goes inside.
Lavishly slather the outside skin in……mayo! Lots of it.
Now wrap it in alum foil. If you are bbqing use two layers.
Time depends on size of fish, you can open it up and see how done it is.
When done unwrap. Open fish. Mayo will stay on skin, just pick the meat up from skin, easy and wonderfully moist.