Quinte Fishing

Are the sheepshead any good eating ? I heard there is a way to prepare them that they tast like shrimp is this true ? I was always told that they were real bad tasting.

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I too often let work interfere with fishing

Many people will filet a sheepshead and cut the filets into bite size pieces. Then they put them in boiling water for a couple of minutes, plunge the pieces into ICE water to stop the cooking and serve with shrimp cocktail sauce.

Why not skip the fish part and drink the cocktail sauce

I also know some people who have steamed them and found them OK.

Hope that helps

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David Delcloo aka Superdad
(Retired)

Kingston

my wife caught a big one under the burlington bridge when we used to live in hamilton, I never tried it because I was afraid to eat anything around hamilton harbour, I heard they are pretty good, but some say they have way too many bones.

I've heard people say from lake erie way there a poor mans pickeral. Hm I'm thinking they drink a lot

In Fisherman magazine published a recipe for sheephead chowder some time ago. It can probably be accessed on their website/ archives.

In Fisherman magazine published a recipe for sheephead chowder some time ago. It can probably be accessed on their website/ archives.

In Fisherman magazine published a recipe for sheephead chowder some time ago. It can probably be accessed on their website/ archives.