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Five holes on the bottom and top and size are about inch and a quarter

Is 170 hot enough for fish though? I'd cure it the day before in a brine so it would have started to cook with that but I wanted to go for that nice tender smoked fish. I'm still trying to grasp on the temps I need for things, seems to be a lot of different info out there.

I have some vents I made on the back that can slide open, can kind of see them in that one photo. And I have a second set on the top of the smokehouse. Would i need more? And would I just open them a bit to help release the smoke and create air flow? Worried if I open them fully the cooler...

Would I use this in replacement of the two electric burns then? Or could I use it in addition to help increase the temperature?

Built my own mini smoke house using some spare pine/cedar 2x4s and a few 2x6s. Wanted to go with a simple electric heating/smoking with cast iron. Running into the issue that the internal temp isn't getting above 170F. Was hoping for 200-250F range as we wanted to smoke some Pinks/Sockeyes/Coho...