2018 Herring Sale Helping Kids with Cancer

[Chasin' Dreams]

Yup Scott they definitely are lacking some scales for sure. Some more than others too. UV Glow will be helpful when using these herring for bait.

 

[Seamen Tales]

There's a couple videos on youtube for pickling herring and quite a few on the internet. Poland, Dutch, German etc recipes. They all do it pretty similarly with some variations between creamed mustard or mustard seed used and some of them add the simmered pickling mixture to the jars fairly hot, partially cooking the fish before pickling. While other recipes say to let it cool first then add it. I'm gonna make pickled rollmops myself since I already have a bunch of homemade pickles, veggies etc. I gew up eating them a lot as my dad bought them pretty regularly but he never made them from scratch.
I smoke a lot of fish, meats and cheeses but not too sure how smoked Herring would turn out. Think I'm just gonna stick to pickling them.

As for bait there's lot's of recipes for that online. I will use the smaller ones to use whole in teaser heads, the medium/large sized ones for cut plugs, and for the largest ones I use them for strips, getting two from each large herring. I'm curing them all up ahead of time then vac pack and freeze them. Cured then frozen/vac packed will keep them in much better shape than freezing them uncured. Getting the excess moisture out of them pre freezing helps the longevity of them a lot and makes for much better, more durable bait when thawing them out to use for bait.

Yes there are a lot of recipes on the internet. I'm always skeptical of online recipes until somebody I trust has tried them. I found a couple pickled herring recipes that I'm trying. I'll know in a few days if they are any good. As for bait, it was hard to find more than a couple scales on any of these herring. They look like they will be fine for ling cod bait.

 

[Chasin' Dreams]

Yes there are a lot of recipes on the internet. I'm always skeptical of online recipes until somebody I trust has tried them. I found a couple pickled herring recipes that I'm trying. I'll know in a few days if they are any good. As for bait, it was hard to find more than a couple scales on any of these herring. They look like they will be fine for ling cod bait.

Don't be put off by the lack of scales. These are beautiful great shape herring. Still very shiny. Scales don't matter as long as there is shine and you cure them up right. This is the first year I bought from this fund raiser but my father in law has been buying them from the fund raiser since the early 90's. He's gotten them from when they used to do them in North Van, Vanc, and Steveston and we have always done very very well using them for bait for salmon fishing. If you want more flash just use a glow/uv teaser head or brine with it added in.

You'll see pictures pretty soon of me with salmon caught with these herring on the local Vanc thread

 

[capt hook]

Wow ... A fire sale on herring ... In this day and age, when we're trying to enhance fish stocks, who would believe we're still raping our resources for charity ?
The millions and millions that are donated to charity, and specifically to cancer , while our natural resources dwindle away.. who would believe it ?
If the cause is worthwhile, donate the paltry $20 to charity and leave the fish in the ocean where they will do some good to the natural resources who rely on them ..

You don,t know what your talking about.
The stocks are growing and sustainable , and strong.
Do some homework , and get facts before mouthing off that Greenie crap.
Sell your boat and be a VEGAN, and stop sport fishing if you feel like that !
Any how....dickhead posts get me going....sorry.
BUT , the SALE was well attended with lots of volunteers and was a great success.
Thanks to all who volunteered and bought .

 

[Chasin' Dreams]

Nummy nummy nummy!!! Will sit in the pickling juice for about a week then time to snarf em down

 

[Drink]

You don,t know what your talking about.
The stocks are growing and sustainable , and strong.
Do some homework , and get facts before mouthing off that Greenie crap.
Sell your boat and be a VEGAN, and stop sport fishing if you feel like that !
Any how....dickhead posts get me going....sorry.
BUT , the SALE was well attended with lots of volunteers and was a great success.
Thanks to all who volunteered and bought .

X2 on that.
Wanted to make a comment but held back, not quite sure why but I do thank you. I attend every year and the herring do not go to waste much like to the landfills in other countries.