Pickerel (or walleye as y'all call it)

Little Steven

Fred19Flintstone

Your Wallys look wonderful!

SmokeyPitt

That is a fine looking plate. I like the use of the cooling rack for a fish grid. What impresses me most is that you spelled y'all correctly.  

hoosier_egger

I love me some walleye! Looks super 

NPHuskerFL

Not hitting Pike yet?  Those are perfect sized walleye fillets. When they were swimming were those about 24"-26" ?  Looks excellent Steven!

keener75

Those Pickerel look fantastic! Decent sized fillets.
Where were they caught? 
I have fished Pickerel from Thunder Bay to the Kawartha's. Nothing better than a shore lunch. 

Little Steven

Zehr's I think. No wait it was Freshco

SGH

Brother Little, looking at this reminds me of seeing my first fully shaven vagina. Simply impressed my friend. 

Botch

Loved eating walleye when visiting gramma/gramps in Minnesota as a kid.  Loved the taste of pike too, but picking thru the bones wasn't much fun (and yeah, I saw the excellent thread on smoking pike).
I gave up fishing when too many people told me "Shoulda been here yesterday".    But, when I hit retirement in a couple more years, I live in the middle of excellent fly fishing, we'll see...

bgebrent

Beautiful cook!  Wish sometimes we had northern lake fish available here in the south. Nice work.

JustineCaseyFeldown

We were callong it pickerel, and you and the Canadian guide were callin it wall eye.


I don't know what to believe any more 

Little Steven

Notice it was store bought. Figured out that the $19 a pound they were charging for it was a great deal compared to the usual $1,500 it costs to catch them with you mutts. I don't even have to endure Rodney either.

Little Steven

NPHuskerFL said:

Not hitting Pike yet?  Those are perfect sized walleye fillets. When they were swimming were those about 24"-26" ?  Looks excellent Steven!

Pike are OK through the ice and cold water in the spring. Taste like carp the rest of the time IMHO. Oh and they were store bought, frozen. Most of the commercial pickerel comes out of Lake Erie around here but these were out of Georgian Bay.

RedSkip

Pickerel and Walleye are different fish.

fishlessman

this is a pickerel, pike and walleye are different fish 19 a pound is pretty pricey for something you can catch with a stick, some twine, hook and a worm

pickerel

jtcBoynton

RedSkip said:

Pickerel and Walleye are different fish.

In most places, Pickerel is different from a Walleye.  For most of us, Pickerel is a member of the pike family, found in more southern US areas. Northern Pike, or Northerns are related and generally found more north than pickerels.  Walleyes are not in the Pike family and are completely different from these Pickerels.  Walleyes do go by several different names in different areas, including Walleyed Pike and Pickerel (seems to the popular name for them in ON).

gmac

When I was a kid I had a "Fishes of Ontario" poster on my wall. The fish you cooked was clearly called "Pickerel" (or Dore for the French speaking folks).  Yes, there are also American or chain pickerel that look like little pike etc (we called the Grass Pike around Lake Erie) but up here calling "walleye" pickerel was a regional name that everyone used.  It wasn't really until the proliferation of US based fishing shows that seemed to prompt folks to start using walleye instead of pickerel around here.  I think it was driven by trying to appeal to US fisherman from a tourism standpoint.

Anyway, they were pickerel to me when I was a kid and always will be pickerel.  You call them what you want.

Little Steven

jtcBoynton said:

RedSkip said:

Pickerel and Walleye are different fish.

In most places, Pickerel is different from a Walleye.  For most of us, Pickerel is a member of the pike family, found in more southern US areas. Northern Pike, or Northerns are related and generally found more north than pickerels.  Walleyes are not in the Pike family and are completely different from these Pickerels.  Walleyes do go by several different names in different areas, including Walleyed Pike and Pickerel (seems to the popular name for them in ON).

And in Quebec and the Maritimes. We are aware that it is a misnomer but that is what we are raised with. If I can find the package I'll post it in this thread. 

Little Steven

fishlessman said:

this is a pickerel, pike and walleye are different fish 19 a pound is pretty pricey for something you can catch with a stick, some twine, hook and a worm

pickerel

fishlessman said:

this is a pickerel, pike and walleye are different fish 19 a pound is pretty pricey for something you can catch with a stick, some twine, hook and a worm

pickerel

That's an ugly looking fish. Looks nothing like a pickerel.

Little Steven

SmokeyPitt said:

That is a fine looking plate. I like the use of the cooling rack for a fish grid. What impresses me most is that you spelled y'all correctly.  

Dude I just got back from Alabama. 

smokeybreeze

"So, what’s all this about the “Canadian pickerel” really being a “walleye?” Are we talking about the same fish having two names? For generations, when Americans have said “It is a walleye,” we Canadians have—sometimes defiantly—responded, “We call it pickerel in Canada; Americans call it walleye.” Have we been wrong all these years? Well, the answer is yes."
http://northernwilds.com/pickerel-vs-walleye-setting-the-record-straight/

jtcBoynton

Lots of things go by different names.  Why is the Canadian name the wrong one?  I'm willing to accept that Canadian English and American English can be different. 

Pork butt = Boston butt = pork shoulder = pork collar.  Which is the 'right' one?
Kansas City steak or New York strip?
Calzone or Stromboli?
sub, hoagie, wedge, hero, grinder?

Which is the 'right' one?  Who gets to decide?

RedSkip

@jtcBoynton. Stromboli does not have ricotta cheese, where a calzone does.

jtcBoynton

@RedSkip  Some people have a clear distinction of how Stromboli and Calzone differ.  However, the distinguishing factors differ depending on who you ask. For some its sauce inside vs on the side, pizza dough vs bread dough, or ricotta cheese vs no ricotta.  

RedSkip

@jtcBoynton. After posting I did a quick search, and it's funny how different, as you mention, the topic of Stromboli vs Calzone is.  Appreciate the statement, learned something new today!

Little Steven

Little Steven

jtcBoynton said:

Lots of things go by different names.  Why is the Canadian name the wrong one?  I'm willing to accept that Canadian English and American English can be different. 

Pork butt = Boston butt = pork shoulder = pork collar.  Which is the 'right' one?
Kansas City steak or New York strip?
Calzone or Stromboli?
sub, hoagie, wedge, hero, grinder?

Which is the 'right' one?  Who gets to decide?

As far as I know Quebecers invented the sandwich in the long bun...the sous marin

Grillmagic

Walleye is my favorite! A little old bays butter and lemon on the BGE is a fine meal. This looks Great!

Little Steven

Here are some others:

https://geekdad.com/2013/12/55-canadianisms-1/

smokeybreeze

Little Steven said:

Here are some others:

https://geekdad.com/2013/12/55-canadianisms-1/

...and Bob's your uncle

I think "Regional Dialects" best describe many of these naming differences, but when it comes to the actual DNA that something has, the scientific community has a definitive naming schema and agreed upon labels.

Or where the species has lived makes a difference (DNA is identical):
Rainbow Trout (freshwater only) == Steelhead (ocean run Rainbow trout)
Grizzly Bear (inland, 200+ miles from the coast, great tasting meat) == Brown Bear (coastal grizzly bear that enjoys much higher protein diet from seafood, tastes like sh*t)

Other regional dialects might include the following:
coke, bubbler, screw the pooch, soda, all y'all, fixin, fixins, and what I saw when a Newfie pointed at something and called it a boyk (bike spoken with a Newfie accent).

Then there's that "regular coffee" I got in Corner Brook - not what I expected.

Regardless, Little Steven, those sure look like good eats.

Little Steven

Regular coffee is pretty much across Canada but I've heard Americans use it too.