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Catch and cook: Choupique (Cypress Trout)
Posted on 4/19/22 at 8:29 am
Posted on 4/19/22 at 8:29 am
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Jared Serigne went fishing with Trey Landry for choupique, also known as bowfin, grendel, or dogfish. We set out to prove this fish is plenty good enough to eat despite its reputation as a trash fish.
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Posted on 4/19/22 at 8:54 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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reputation as a trash fish.
Only for the lower IQ folks.
ETA: watching the video, he's putting that palonc out a 1/4 mile from my parents' house. Grew up hunting and fishing that swamp and pipeline
This post was edited on 4/19/22 at 9:08 am
Posted on 4/19/22 at 8:55 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Saw a guy cleaning 4 or 5 of them in Kissimee one year. looked like a workout with his 6 inch rapala, he swore by them though.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 9:09 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
They eat ok(my dad often cleaned them) but not good enough for me to fool with them.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 9:15 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
I enjoy catching them but I don’t eat
Hook a few in the discharge canal every summer while fishing hybrids. Suckers for dead shrimp on the bottom.
Hook a few in the discharge canal every summer while fishing hybrids. Suckers for dead shrimp on the bottom.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 9:54 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Mais I eat dat me. Trick is to keep them alive until the moment you fillet them. Hit them in the head with a hammer, fillet, batter then fry! Dont let the meat sit or it will get mushy. Or use the meat and make choupique patties for pan frying.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 9:55 am to BMax12
quote:Absolute truth.
Trick is to keep them alive until the moment you fillet them. Hit them in the head with a hammer, fillet, batter then fry! Dont let the meat sit or it will get mushy.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 10:05 am to AlxTgr
I believe they don't freeze well if I remember right
Posted on 4/19/22 at 12:21 pm to LSUlefty
caught one on a yoyo on high school and cooked it immediately. I remember it being pretty good.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 1:04 pm to BMax12
There's enough delicious stuff swimming around which doesn't have all kinds of stipulations involved with making them delicious. They get cussed at and thrown back in my boat.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 1:16 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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grendel
*Grinnell. Lipped one as a lad trying to retrieve my spinner bait from it's mouth. Lesson learned. I'll eat them if every other species of animal dies off. Other than that their only value is to trade for some black poon.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 2:15 pm to TheBoo
I'd imagine a few of us on here know that area. Love some fried choupique myself.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 2:54 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
My buddy shoots them with a 22
Posted on 4/19/22 at 2:58 pm to LSUballs
Caught one a few weeks ago during the Eufaula Big Bass tourney that had me thinking I had the tournament winning fish on. SOB was between 12-15 lbs EASY. Caught another two casts later then switched from spinnerbait to crankbait
This is the result of that next cast
I frickin hate the bastages and would starve before I ate one.
This is the result of that next cast
I frickin hate the bastages and would starve before I ate one.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 6:03 pm to GeauxTigers0107
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Love some fried choupique myself.
Not no, but frick no for me. They get a boat paddle up against the head and back in the water. Payback for all the Rouges, Devilhorses, spinner baits, yo-yo hooks those nasty bastards have destroyed in all my years.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 7:58 pm to LSUlefty
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I believe they don't freeze well if I remember right
We actually will freeze them to scoop the meat out to make patties. Heard plenty of people say keep alive but I’ve never had problems putting them on ice. Half time they still somewhat alive.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 9:10 pm to headedwest21
Wife's cats love them. Meat is soft, they chew it like cotton. They'd rather eat choupique than the strip of meat off a bass ribcage
Posted on 4/19/22 at 9:33 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
Cottonfish, weird looking flesh
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:16 am to TheBoo
YEP WE MUST KNOW EACH OTHER! MY CHILDHOOD WITH MY BUDDIES FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD USE TOO PEROG DOWN THE POWER LINE AND FISH THAT EXACT SPOT! LOT OF FROGS THERE TOO! MY DADDY'S KNICK NAME IS CHOUPIC. AND THE OLD PEOPLE STILL CALL ME LIL CHOUPIC. THAT VIDEO IS CORRECT ! GOD'S COUNTRY!
This post was edited on 4/20/22 at 8:21 am
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:21 am to Jimbo1975
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USE TOO PEROG DOWN
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