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[charcoal junkie]

Could I use Walleye for Lox? In the part of North Dakota I am from the only Salmon I can find is frozen. I would like to use a fresh fish not something I don't know how many times has been frozen and unthawed. Walleye, Northern, Crappie, and Perch are easy enough to catch year round. Can someone point me in the right direction.

 

[mountainhawg]

Frozen salmon is fine, in fact not a bad idea since some of the baddies would have been wiped out from the freeze. Salmon is an oily fish and helps makes lox what it is. Walleye, though a wonderful eating fish, would not work well for lox IMO. A rainbow, steelhead, char or lake trout would probably work as they are (somewhat) "oily" fish. Rainbows and steelhead are in the salmon family, lake trout are a char.    

 

[charcoal junkie]

Thanks Mountain I was thinking you need a fish that is oily. I have never smoked fish before.