3-31-18 Snagging

[Seth]

Took a buddy, the father in law and one of his buddies up to LoZ for a day of snagging. It was around 7:45am when we arrived at Wigwam to an already fairly packed parking lot. It took us a bit to get things figured out, but we ended up all limiting out with six small males and two sows (a 47 and 54 pounder). We caught them at the 60mm and 53mm. They were tight to the bottom early on when it was cloudy and then started suspending later in the day when the sun popped out.

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[Johnsfolly]

Great job guys. Some very nice spoonbill! Got me pretty jealous. Don't know if I will even get out on my limited time in MO in April.

[slothman]

I’ve always wanted to catch one of those. I’ve gone snagging a few times, but haven’t caught anything but logs. 

[Yakalong]

Look like a blast!

[Terrierman]

You guys had a great day.   

We had eight Thursday on Truman.  I wound up with four gallons of cleaned meat.  Love it smoked/grilled.  They are a PITA to get ready, but it's worth it.

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Ive yet to try spoonbill meat that i could take two bites of and i love eating fish.  Fried, baked, and grilled it was disgusting.  Ive heard so many people say how good it is.  

[Terrierman]

25 minutes ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

Ive yet to try spoonbill meat that i could take two bites of and i love eating fish.  Fried, baked, and grilled it was disgusting.  Ive heard so many people say how good it is.  

Texture is meatier than most fish.  If it tasted muddy nasty, it wasn't cleaned right.  Zero red can be left and there is a lot of waste getting them ready to eat.  If it ain't white, it ain't right.  Out of four good size fish - somewhere around 160 lbs. live weight, I wound up with four gallons of meat.

[Seth]

The amount of waste on these fish is crazy! I got over a 5 gallon bucket worth of skin, fat and mud streak out of all of these fish. As far as eating, they are OK, but I definitely prefer other fish like crappie and white bass. Since I crappie fish quite a bit, I usually just give away all of my paddlefish. I've got a list of folks who go bonkers over the stuff. I am going to keep a fillet and try boiling it in a cajun crab boil and see how it turns out. My current favorite way to cook it is to dip 1" strips in melted butter than has a bunch of cajun seasoning in it and then immediately throwing it on a hot charcoal grill for 3 minutes on each side. That was delicious!

[Terrierman]

41 minutes ago, Seth said:

The amount of waste on these fish is crazy! I got over a 5 gallon bucket worth of skin, fat and mud streak out of all of these fish. As far as eating, they are OK, but I definitely prefer other fish like crappie and white bass. Since I crappie fish quite a bit, I usually just give away all of my paddlefish. I've got a list of folks who go bonkers over the stuff. I am going to keep a fillet and try boiling it in a cajun crab boil and see how it turns out. My current favorite way to cook it is to dip 1" strips in melted butter than has a bunch of cajun seasoning in it and then immediately throwing it on a hot charcoal grill for 3 minutes on each side. That was delicious!

I will try that!

[conorsixtakc]

On 4/1/2018 at 4:49 PM, Seth said:

My current favorite way to cook it is to dip 1" strips in melted butter than has a bunch of cajun seasoning in it and then immediately throwing it on a hot charcoal grill for 3 minutes on each side. That was delicious!

I'm racking my brain trying to think of anything remotely edible that wouldn't taste better after that, no luck so far 

Maybe I'm in the minority here but I don't get the appeal of spoonbill snagging. If everybody's so eager to go kill and eat some obscure ugly fish, plenty of asian carp in the waterways to focus efforts on. At least they're a nuisance.