Northern livers

[Coureur_de_bois]

Fried Northern and Northern livers. Has anyone else tried the liver it is excellent!

[kingkobbla]

That sounds and looks really good. I'll have to save a couple from the ones i spear this winter and try it. The only thing missing from that picture is a cold natural light.

[tjbassmaster]

Interesting. Will have to try this sometime. Has anyone tried frying the livers of any other fish like walleyes?

[hockeybc69]

I will stick to the fillets....

[efgh]

I have tryed both the northern livers and eggs fried, to me, the livers rank right down there with the eggs.

[ThunderLund78]

There's not a lot I wont try but I might draw the line here. You're a brave soul

Just curious, I don't keep enough fish to worry about it too much, but for those that eat their catch regularly, do organs like the liver absorb more toxins than the meat itself? Seems to me that an organ that filters the blood might have some nasty stuff in it depending on what water it came out of. Any biologists out there?

[toughguy]

My personal test for eating animal parts: If my Grandpa never ate it it's not worth eating.

[hockeybc69]

I wouldnt consider being in the same room with some of the stuff my Grandpa ate! LOLLLL

[ThunderLund78]

Unfortunately for me, my Grandpa was a Latvian immigrant near the end of WWII. From the stories he used to tell, when you live in a refugee camp in war-torn Europe, your standards on what you're willing to eat are lower to say the least

He would've eating these livers and asked for seconds.

[dirtking]

When I "gut" a deer the guts stay in the woods, when I "gut and gill" a fish the guts and gills get tossed.

[eyeguy 54]

gotta keep the heart! fried up in buttter... MMMMM!

[Antero]

Never had northern livers bit I can attest to the excellent quality of whitefish livers. They are great and can be found in many restaurants around the Great Lakes.

[eyeguy 54]

do they taste at all like beef liver?

[Archerysniper]

gotta keep the heart! fried up in buttter... MMMMM!

I don't see the broadhead mark?

[mainbutter]

do organs like the liver absorb more toxins than the meat itself? Seems to me that an organ that filters the blood might have some nasty stuff in it depending on what water it came out of. Any biologists out there?

Not a practicing biologist, but yes, the liver is where a lot of various nasties get filtered and dumped.

A friend who is into sailing always quotes some story of stranded sailors dying from over-eating and subsisting on shark liver (when they thought supposedly the rest of shark meat was toxic and the liver was the only safe part) when his wife wants to cook beef liver for dinner.

Like everything in life, do it in moderation and you shouldn't be in bad shape, but it's definitely a good idea to avoid liver from old animals, and definitely a good idea to consider only having such a meal very infrequently.

That said, I bet they are delicious! Thanks for sharing. For those who didn't know, plenty of fish species tend to have HUGE livers relative to total body size, when compared to other species (particularly mammals). Shark livers supposedly can make up as much as 1/3 of their total body mass.

[eyeguy 54]

I don't see the broadhead mark?

thats cuz I don't fry up the lungs :>)

[JPenny]

Years ago while I was fishing in the Arctic, a native fixed us a "special" treat for shore lunch. Pike sausage! Here's a recipe for ya. Remove the stomach from a pike and turn it inside out. Wash it out and turn it back to outside out. Stuff with pike liver and twist the ends closed. Place on grill and wait for it to swell up to the size of a large pickle. remove and serve while hot. mmmmm....mmm. I took one bite and about upchucked. The natives got a good laugh when I spit out my first and only bite. They loved the stuff! After seeing my facial expressions, my wife declined any pike sausage. Smart girl!

[eyeguy 54]

funny!