Scofield

[gmanhunter]

Its been a while since I have posted on here, but I seen there hasn't been any posts on Scofield for a while. I took the family on a camping and fishing trip there this last weekend. I stayed at the State Park near the dam and we fished from the boat docs. We tried cheese, worms, jigs and caught nothing the first day. I seen no one catching fish, even guys out on boats. Saturday night we fished by the boat ramp and seen fish boiling right next to the ramp. I tossed a jig with a worm on it and confirmed what type of fish it was. CHUBS. I have an autistic daughter that loves to reel fish in, so the family Chubed fished until dark. We caught a bunch of fish. My kids and wife had a blast. I stopped counting how many we had on the dock. By the time we had stopped we ran through 2 dozen worms. Yes all fish were harmed and were put in the trash can to not live another day. Most all of them are full of eggs. My boy asked me why we dumped them in the trash and I simply replied, we were doing our part to help out the other fish in the lake. Even though we didn't catch any trout, the family still had fun trash fishing.
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[Outfishing13]

So I am going to go out on a limb and give my opinion even though I will get ridiculed by a bunch of fish snobs. That's okay.

Why not take those fish home and do something with them? Fish tacos. Fillet them and roll them in flour and fry em in hot oil. Cut the fillets thin enough that the hot oil will soften the bones.

How about filleting or just head and gut them and brine them and smoke em. In the great lake areas chubs are smoked by the tons and tons.

Read this article. https://wildforage.wordpress.com/2014/10...excellent/

There are many types of marinades to use. Personally I like to just put on a dry rub of salt and brown sugar and let them sit in a plastic container for several hours until the juices saturate the whole fish. Then take them out, and rinse and dry.

Sometime this summer I am going to go to Scofield and do the same, but I am going to bring mine home and smoke them and even bottle the smoked fillets. Kipper snakes anyone? Yum.

If we had more people targeting them for consumption, we wouldn't have this imbalance.

Just saying.

On your mark, get set, go. Let the ridicule begin...
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[fryman1]

Not really out to ridicule because it is not a protected species in scofield.

I tried smoking them and frying them and the bones were just too much either filleted or whole.

Then that aweful smell. My dog turned it down.

But they are awesome for cut bait and great for the garden compost!
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[gofish435]

Drove by Scofield today and snapped a shot of the water going over the spillway for the first time in six years.[]

At least there will be more room for all the chubs to spread out.[]

Every year there are more and more pelicans showing up. I hope that all they eat are chubs.[]

There was one boat and a couple of shore anglers and that was it. It is still going to be a few years before anything changes up there.[:/]
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[Northman]

Thanks for the picture....its been a long time since I have seen water over the spillway. Too bad the DWR didn't take advantage of the low water last year to take care of the chubs.
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[gmanhunter]

Outfishing 13 you are right about eating those chubs. They tastes just like a white fish. I have ate them before, but considering how small these were, they wasn't worth eating. I have caught them in jordanelle up to a pound and a half. It does seem like a waste to throw them away, but it' was better then turning them loose to repopulate. Not criticizing anyone about eating them, or turning them loose, I just choose to do it this way.
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[Fishrmn]

That spillway, and the water going over it, are the reasons that they won't be able to put Tiger Muskies in Scofield.

Scofield Reservoir
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The chubs have started spawning, and anglers are having success catching them on the western shore using worms and PowerBait. Once caught, the chubs can be killed and used for bait. Scofield was stocked with more than 12,000 catchable cutthroat trout on April 20. Try using chub meat or spinners to catch the recently stocked fish and larger cutthroat trout that are also in the reservoir. (05-26-17)

I never thought I'd see the day that the UDWR would list Scofield as good fishing when the only thing being caught was chubs. This is the second report like this.


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