Northwest Reel Life April 2024 Volume 3 Issue 6 - Flipbook - Page 21
built my first meal up in
my head and here she is
eating it all! Rationing out
my portion, I was glad to
see my daughter enjoyed
the meal, but I was for
a moment inclined to
respond like the 2-year-old
I was interacting with - to
say “mine” and grab it all
back. They don’t call this
fish the poor man’s lobster
for nothing I suppose. The
white meat is what you’d
expect from any similar cod
fish, but the firm texture
and taste of the fish paired
with the garlic butter and
lemon certainly lived up
to my expectations. The
enjoyable meal was the
culmination of my burbot
experience and a fitting
way to affirm my latest
fishing craze.
So, now that I’ve caught
what was previously a
mysterious fish to me, I
look forward to another
season with refined skills
but the same level of
excitement I had before
encountering the burbot. A
note for myself, I’ll have to
do some research on some
of those other strange fish
to be caught…paddlefish,
an arctic grayling, pallid
sturgeon…all to hopefully
be checked off the species
bucket list.
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