Money Fish

[buckcanyonlodge]

Yes, they are here. My new favorite Lake Roosevelt fish....$10 each. gotto go catch 49 more.

[C-Money]

That is one fish I have never caught. Kinda to bad they are in Roosevelt. Probably all the way to Astoria by now.

[7mmfan]

Did you shoot it? 

Good work thinning the herd even if just a little. The guys I know that still guide the upper end of the system say they are beginning to get out of control up there. Might be time for a trip up there with some big bucktail spinners and swimbaits.

[CP]

They are pretty tasty when deep fried.   

[7mmfan]

I've eaten quite a few Tiger Musky, if they are anything like that, they are tasty buggers.

[haugenna]

Lots of bones in pike and lots of slime. Look on YouTube for how to Ybone them.

Best lure I used was a Johnson silver minnow with a double mister twister tail. Weedless and very effective.

[7mmfan]

For Musky we trolled big black spinner baits early in the morning and late in the evening. If it was mid day we would cruise and look for them and toss big bucktail spinners or swimbaits at them. Man it was fun.

[CP]

I've caught countless pike on good ole daredevil spoons when I lived in Minnesota.  They aren't too picky; if it moves they try to eat it.

[wapiti hunter2]

Lots of bones in pike and lots of slime. Look on YouTube for how to Ybone them.

Best lure I used was a Johnson silver minnow with a double mister twister tail. Weedless and very effective.

Excellent eating but YES, you have to YBone them. Easy though.

[Skillet]

I hope they can keep the population under control.  It would stick to have a 100 mile long impoundment full of hammer handles and nothing else.

[Skillet]

Yes, they are here. My new favorite Lake Roosevelt fish....$10 each. gotto go catch 49 more.

Who's paying the bounty?  Sounds like it's capped?

[buckcanyonlodge]

I am looking where to collect the bounty...there is a 50 fish ( $500 ) limit. I filleted it and lots of weird bones. The cats loved the scraps better than walleye. Hope to get more in the next few days.

[25wssm]

Take the head to the Noisy Waters gas station at barneys junction.   There is a freezer outside there you place the head in  They'll send you a check  . Might also be one at the kettle falls boat ramp

[25wssm]

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[DOUBLELUNG]

A couple of good methods here.  I know there are lots of how-to videos, but I prefer a good diagram myself. https://www.burnettcounty.com/DocumentCenter/Home/View/59

Another way to do the small ones (under 24") is to scale them, fillet, turn skin side down and slice through the meat to but not through the skin at about 1/4" intervals.  Deep fry or sautee, the small y bones dissolve in the hot oil.  This was my favorite way to eat chain pickerel when I was a kid in NH, my favorite of the species available from shore to a kid on a bike.  The whole family preferred them to trout, bass and other panfish.  White, firm tasty flesh.