After two years, I finally got a chance to fish for salmon this past weekend. The salmon season near where I live has been closed for two years, so we went up to the Trinity River in Northern California and caught three fine king salmon -- that's nearly 30 pounds of meat!
After filleting them, I made a salmon salad with some of the trimmings, made crispy-fried salmon skin with what I cut off to make skinless fillets, and am planning on eating French salmon cutlets and broiled salmon with cilantro sauce later this week.
After so long without, it's time to gorge on chinook salmon!
Photo copyright 2009 Holly A. Heyser
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Hank – You sound like a bear who’s been waiting all winter for the salmon to return! We just recently got a taste of some Copper River Coho that was fantastic. The fish was so fat it was like having self-buttered salmon! It’s getting very hard here on the East Coast (Long Island) to get ANY kind of sustainably raised/harvested salmon. Wild Atlantic salmon simply don’t exist and all the farmed stuff is creating a nightmare. Sad…
Oops. I meant to say Copper River sockeye. It was supreme in any event.
Gawd, I know! I used to live back East and real, serious salmon went for upwards of $20 a pound even back in the mid-1990s. I can only imagine what it is now…