Poor Man's Lobster?

[gonefishing70]

Any one make it and what is your recipe. Thanks.

[LABS4ME]

Eelpout loins boiled in 7-up dipped in melted garlic butter . Can't get any easier than that! Good cold w cocktail sauce also.

Use the tail fillets for beer battered fish.

Good Luke!

Ken

[6arrows]

Have not cought a lawyer in along time always would take my nephews down to the river during christmas break and get some. Boiled and diped in butter yummm.

[mrklean]

I have used pike before same as above boil in 7up dip in garlic butter, i wasnt a huge fan of it

[pushbutton]

Always piece out the strap and sear them like scallops. Some butter, oill, salt , and pepper and cook until there is a light crust, turn and repeat until the inside starts to turn color. Cant even be 5 minutes total….probably like 3 to 4. Did not know there was a tail fillet???

[LABS4ME]

Yep. Talked to commercial fisherman on LOW 20 years ago... Said a lot of pout was sold to Arthur Treachers fish and chips... They used the tail fillet... A uniform narrow triangle from the rib cage back to tail. It looked just like the two fillets you received at the restaurant. He turned us on to keeping them and how to clean them.

Brought a half dozen pout home 10 years ago and did the poor mans lobster with loins and beer battered fillets from tail. My brother's wife normally will not eat fish and said the fillets were probably the best fish she ever ate. If she could've only seen what they looked like two days earlier! That may have changed her mind!

Good Luck!

Ken

[pushbutton]

Huh, will have to look for that the next time I catch one. Well, looks like I, as well as a bunch of pout poo-pooers have have already eaten that tail. When we would make the big trip to the city to go school cloths shopping, AT was always part of the gig. Would drive by those golden arches with pout lips out and tears in my eyes to no avail; apparently over salted and deep fried hushpuppies and fish dipped in tatar sauce were somehow more healthy than over salted and deep fried fries and chicken nuggets dipped in barbecue sauce. As you can tell still rendering some scars from such traumatic events..…..

[bluewater2]

can you fillet and freeze Ell pout???

[LABS4ME]

I have... The loins are better fresh if you plan on boiling them. I have frozen the fillets as I fry or deep fry them and have not noticed nay difference in the meat.

Good luck!

Ken

[gonefishing70]

Thanks every one I ended up using pike last night and it turned out pretty good, Now i will start keeping a few just for that. I haven't caught a pout in a long time but the next one I do I will give it a go. thanks again.

[hydro]

If you freeze pout, they will get more chewey/tougher the longer they are frozen. Something to do with an enzyme reaction in the meat. The fillets I get never last long enough to prove the hypothesis

[minky]

I have never tried poor man's lobster but it sounds good!