Poor Man's Lobster

Bearcarver · Feb 25, 2014

Leah Elisheva said:
This is just so fabulous!!!

I'm delighted to learn of it!!!

Great job!!!

This is the perfect example of whipping up various "findables," that turn out to be rare gems!

Bravo!!!!

Cheers!!!!! - Leah

Thanks Leah!!

Any cheap white fleshed fish will do.

Bear

heyer5 said:
We also make poor man's lobster, but it is made out of northern pike. A great game fish, fun to throw spoons (a jig to catch them on) for, and a blast to see them come out of the water and hit the bait! My biggest is a 35.5" that I caught up in Canada. Great eats too!

Not too many Northerns around here (We'd have to go to Canada for them). Plenty of Pickerel, and a mess of Muskies though. Biggest I ever caught was 42", which is considered a Small Musky. All of those have more bones than I care to deal with.

Bear

mdboatbum · Feb 25, 2014

Can't afford Monkfish so we've started making a substitute. We call it "poor man's monkfish".

Yup, lobster was actually cheaper than monkfish the last time it was on sale.

leah elisheva · Feb 25, 2014

Love that Andrew!!!

Here's to that ghastly "poor man's monkfish" thus (smiles) indeed!

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers!!!!!!! - Leah

chuckles · Feb 25, 2014

themule69 said:
Bear
that looks great. The only way my wife will eat fish is fried. Oh well.
Happy smoken
David

I'd probably have to be fried too. I wish I would have acquired that taste when I was young, but if Dad doesn't like the smell of fish in the house, nobody eats fish. :icon_eek:

Bearcarver · Feb 25, 2014

Mdboatbum said:
Can't afford Monkfish so we've started making a substitute. We call it "poor man's monkfish".

Yup, lobster was actually cheaper than monkfish the last time it was on sale.

LOL---Good one!!!

I don't buy either of them any more.

Last time I had Lobster Tail was for Father's Day a few years ago, at my Son's house.

It was Ribeyes & Lobster Tail. He takes care of the Old Man!!

Bear

jaxrmrjmr · Feb 28, 2014

Mdboatbum said:
Can't afford Monkfish so we've started making a substitute. We call it "poor man's monkfish".

Yup, lobster was actually cheaper than monkfish the last time it was on sale.

thoseguys26 · Mar 26, 2014

Here is what Burbot (Eelpout) looks like boiled. You want to use a sugar and salt water boil. They just have two backstraps basically and it's boneless. Tastes very close to Lobster in every way.

I deep fried a few just to experiment.

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Bearcarver · Mar 26, 2014

thoseguys26 said:
Here is what Burbot (Eelpout) looks like boiled. You want to use a sugar and salt water boil. They just have two backstraps basically and it's boneless. Tastes very close to Lobster in every way.

I deep fried a few just to experiment.

That's gotta be awesome Poor Man's Lobster!!!

Wish we had that around here---Gotta settle for its brothers---Catfish & Eels. LOL---They're boneless too, after filleting them.

Bear

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