Crispy Perch Roe

KevinFish, From The Wild, Ice Fishing, Perch10 Comments

Some Grant MacEwan University students were at my house the other day doing a photo doc about me, and my dad showed up with a box of 9 perch he’d caught. One of them was a giant 14.5″ long [the fish, not the student], and weighed 830g. The roe sac in the thing was giant, filling my open hand. In … Read More

Ice Fishing Fail

KevinFish, From The Wild, Ice Fishing10 Comments

When small, the photo on the left looks strikingly like a giant storm of doom shot from space. But it’s just an ice hole. An ice hole that hardly had a line put down it this morning, because, as I was fated to learn, small children have no attention span for ice fishing. Which is cool. I brought other stuff … Read More

Episode 26: Smoke & Ice

KevinCharcuterie, Cooking w/ Fire, Fish, Fishing, From the Cellar, From The Wild, Ice Fishing, Kevin TV, Northern Pike, Perch, Smoked Fish, Smoking w/ Fire, Whitefish18 Comments

I grew up hunting and gardening, abandoned them both as a young adult, then fell in love with both again later in life. Apparently, same goes for ice fishing. I have semi-fond memories of exhausty ski-doo-trailer rides on to the lake, sitting on a pail getting blasted by the elements, eye lashes freezing together, not catching much of anything, getting … Read More