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A Pickeral is just like a Walleye... only smaller. Pickeral Wall-ice

That's a heckuva fish for 8 lb. test!!! Good on ya for the C&R!!!

Here's an interesting tid bit I found on Greenland Sharks: Greenland sharks are deep-water sharks, living at depths up to 2,000 m (6,600 ft). Though famously sluggish—when hunted, they can be dragged out of the water with one's bare hands—they feed on agile prey such as fish, and on mammals like seals.[3] The stomachs of a few Greenland sharks have even been found to contain pieces from reindeer, horses, and even parts of a polar bear. An entire reindeer, minus its antlers, was found in the stomach contents of one Greenland shark. Greenland Sharks are even cannibalistic, eating each other, because they are immune to each other's toxic flesh. This shark frequently has a relationship with a parasitic copepod, Ommatokoita elongata, that attaches itself to the cornea of the eye and feeds on the shark's corneal tissue; the resulting scar tissue leads to partial blindness of the shark. However, this does not occur in all Greenland sharks.[4] Also, studies show the Greenland Shark could probably detect light from darkness. The copepod is a whitish-yellow creature that is said to be bioluminescent and possibly serves the symbiotic function of attracting prey for the shark, like a fishing lure. This is suggested by the fact that these normally sluggish sharks have been found with much faster-moving animals (such as squid) in their stomachs. Biologists know little of its reproduction and life cycle, aside from ovoviviparity; its lifespan may be as long as 200 years.[5],[6] The flesh of a Greenland shark is poisonous when fresh. This is due to the presence of the toxin trimethylamine oxide, which, upon digestion, breaks down into trimethylamine, producing effects similar to extreme drunkenness, occasional sled dogs that end up eating the flesh are unable to stand up due to the neurotoxins. However, it can be eaten if it is boiled in several changes of water or dried or rotted for some months (as by being buried in boreal ground, exposing it to several cycles of freezing and thawing). It is considered a delicacy in Iceland and Greenland. Recently, the Greenland shark has been found within the lower St. Lawrence River, where it swimming in shallow waters for the first time. Since discovered within Quebec, divers have noted that during the female sharks will stay within the lower area of the St. Lawrence, while the male sharks swim farther up to areas where marine life is more abundant. Another notable difference, since being spotted in the St. Lawrence, is the fact that the Shark's eyes are completley clear, with no parasites. One diver has even been noted as saying that the sharks eyes watch and follow the divers as they swim. [edit] Inuit legends The shark's "origin" comes to a legend, refering to an old woman that washed her hair with urine, and the gray cloth she used to dry it blown away after, becoming the first Greenland Shark. The shark is not dangerous to humans, though there are Inuit legends of the fish attacking kayaks. [7] Inuit consider Greenland Sharks a scavenging nuisance. [edit] Research Canadian researcher William Sommers and the organization Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group (GEERG) have been studying the Greenland shark in the Saguenay Fjord and St. Lawrence Estuary since 2001. The Greenland shark has repeatedly been documented (captured or washed ashore) in the Saguenay since at least 1888. Accidental captures and strandings have also been recorded in the St. Lawrence Estuary for over a century. Current research conducted by GEERG involves the study of the behaviour of the Greenland shark by observing it underwater using scuba and video equipment and by placing acoustic and satellite tags (telemetry) on live specimens.

Get outside and enjoy it if it starts sticking Cliff... it's not gonna last for ever yanno!Got the new Electronics rigged up on that boat yet?

Not tryin' to be defensive, just tryin' to 'splain. I realize about the Crappie in the still pic and that's why I 'splained that too. I always take a cooler of ice with me in the boat, during the day it's for my 2 bottles of water and 2 Pepsi's I always take. At the end of the day it's for the fish if I decide to keep them. When people go ice fishin', do you think they bonk every little perch they catch? I'm sure some people do, but I think most are just thrown on the ice to freeze. Have you ever had to re-bonk a fish?I can see the need to bonk very large and unruly fish, but I release all my large fish and keep the Crappie and eater size Catfish (nothing over 3 lbs.) There are as many ways of doing something as there are people to tell you how to do it!

Just as a side noteConsider the following:Fish, as all cold blooded animals do. Drop their metabolisims to near death levels when exposed to extreme cold, a type of suspended animation.I feel that it is calming and serene to the animal, like going into a very deep sleep. Some people think that just because a fish has that open eyed stare, they're always aware of their surroundings. If they had eyelids, I'm sure they'd be closed after a couple minutes on ice.If you think a fish can feel my fillet knife cleaning it after being packed in ice for a couple of hours, go outside and stick you bare hand in a snow drift for just 5 minutes and see how much you can feel when you pull it out.Think about it.

Those "floaters" aren't dead, they're dealing with slight decompression issues from being very recently pulled up out of 20' of water. Look at them closely, their mouthes and gills are still workin... they're even wigglin' their fins. Now pick one up.. ooops!... he splashed water in your face as he slipped out of your hand and raced around the livewell a couple of times just to prove to you that he isn't dead. Given a little time, those fish will decompress themselves and turn right side up...if you and Roy had working livewells on your boats you would know aboot these things. If I do find a fish near dead in the livewell and it doesn't look like he's gonna make it, he goes directly into the cooler on ice. I take very good care of my fish and make every effort to make sure they are the freshest they can be. As soon as it's decided that a fish is to be kept, he is treated like food! Y'all can beat your fish to a bloody fricken pulp if you like... that's your way. I take care of mine my way.

What beast?

Open all year in 'Bama, just a little harder to catch in the winter.

I train all my "kept" fish to swim on their side Roy... they're more photogenic that way!

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I find my livewell very useful. ... but if you don't ever hardly catch any fish to put in it... yeah, I can see where it would be pretty much useless.

Hoser #1. What are we gonna do with this live fish eh? Hoser #2. I dunno? Hoser #1. I know!... let's beat it to death with a stick eh!!! Hoser #2. YEAH!!!.. sounds like fun, we can get a 2/4............

Do you have all the barbs pinched down on your hooks?... and what about that 3/0 you just rammed thru that fishes eye?... why fish at all if you're going to be that sympathetic???... maybe y'all should join P*E*T*A Real fishermen don't feel sorry for the bait or the catch!!! http://www.joecartoon.com/cartoons/142-joe_fish

I'll take suffocation over blunt trauma as well, by the time they're cleaned they're half frozen and numb. You kill yours the way you want to and I'll kill mine the way I want.

How do you know this???

It's all in personal preference, we don't have Salmonoids down here so I can't comment on them.As far as the muddy taste, that has a lot to do with the way fish are kept AND cleaned. An improperly cleaned fish will have a muddy and/or strong fishy taste, a lot of people nowadays want to just whack on a fish with an eletric knife because it's fast. A fast job isn't usually a good job, they want want to thrust the blade down behind the gill and turn and follow the backbone down to the tail smearing the fillet with bladder bile and stomach contents, and feces... I reckon they figure it's some kind of seasoning or something. Then they flip the fillet over and hack the skin off, paying little attention to the lateral line. In certain species and waters the lateral line is what gives the fish a strong or muddy taste, couple that with improper keeping and you've got a nasty piece of meat.

I just take it for granted everybody knows how to clean fish (but I don't just let anybody clean my fish). I've been cleaning fish since I was 7 yrs. old and it's second nature to me.You can learn a lot by cleaning fish, the anotomy of different species and their diet. I always open up the stomachs on mine to have a look see what they had for breakfast.

That's great Cliff!!! Your daughter looks adorable handing you those fish with the glove on! Looks like the fish came out perfectly for you ... I wonder what Muskie tastes like fried eh?

Great report and pics Pete!!! 31 degree water! that's gotta be some cold, nasty, and dangerous stuff! It just amazes me how those cold water species of fish can live, feed, multiply, and thrive in an enviornment that would kill a human being in a matter of minutes.

It sucks to be y'all eh? .. and of course misery loves company, so y'all are gonna send another blast of Arctic air down here on Wednesday and drop our high temp down to a bone chilling +9 and our low to a mere -3... maybe I'll get the garden hose out and make some snow!

You may be laffin', but the Wall-ices are gonna be cryin'!

Well dang Beans!!! I ws hopin' you'd get the big fish at the Tyler event! We may have to have a Sabiki seminar at Lakair this June. Good Luck to ya on future fishin' trips Norm!

Are there any consumption advisories for fish in the BOQ?

As long as they were within the regs... there isn't a problem. Unless you're jealous...