Fish Recipe

After heart surgery, I've had to change my diet and it now includes a lot of baked or grilled fish. I've been trying a bunch of new types of fish with a bunch of different marinades and sauces.

Luckily, we have a great lake, so I hope to stock the freezer soon.

Anyway, here is a very simple, very quick marinade that will work great for Bream, Catfish, Bass or Crappie.

Ingredients..... (Per fish filet)

Fish filets

1/4 cup Worcestershire 

2 cloves garlic

Half a small shallot (Optional)

Yellow mustard

1 1/2  teaspoon Cajun seasoning

Tablespoon Olive oil 

Sea salt

Ground black pepper

Tabasco or your favorite Louisiana hot sauce

Directions......

 Mince the garlic (I also mash a lot of it with the side of a large knife)

Mince the shallot, if you choose to use it.

Place fish filets in a gallon zip lock bag (The Slider bags work best) and add, the Worcestershire, the garlic, shallot, a squirt of yellow mustard, pinch of sea salt, and a twist or two of ground black pepper,a dash of the hot sauce,  and the Cajun seasoning.

Then add the olive oil.

Press as much of the air out of the bag as you can and seal the bag.

Shake and massage the marinade until all fish are well covered. (If cooking a lot of filets, use more bags, don't over crowd)

Marinate in the fridge for an hour. Up to 3 is fine. (Note, if you add lemon juice, don't marinade over an hour, it can make fish mushy)

If grilling, make a hot fire and oil and clean a fish rack (Picture of one below).

Place fish rack on grill rack and let it heat up for a couple of minutes.

Place fish on fish rack and grill, flipping fish with a spatula, until it is flaky. (I pour the marinade over the fish when I place it on the grill)

To bake, wrap fish in heavy aluminum foil and leave on grill about 10 minutes or, place filets on a fish rack on top of a cookie sheet lined with foil, and place in a pre-heated 450 oven, for 5-6 minutes, flipping fish about halfway thru.

Cooking time will depend on thickness of the filets, no matter which way you choose to cook it.

Another way I've done it is placing a lightly oiled cast iron skillet in the oven while it heats. 5 minutes after the oven has preheated, carefully remove the skillet with heavy oven mitts. Immediately place filet or filets into the  skillet. Carefully place back in oven and cook for 5-6 minutes or more depending on thickness of the fish, flip fish about halfway through by removing skillet and using a spatula.

Real quick and real good.

If you try it, let me know how it turned out and if you liked it.

 

Braving The Cold And The Wind Pay Off

Jimmy Pickle & Mike Barnes went out Sunday in less than ideal conditions. With the wind howling out of the Northwest and temps in the low 50's, they managed to catch 27 bass including these 2...............

Reminder....

The Lake Cavalier Fishing Association is having a meeting this Thursday Feb. 21. at the Clubhouse.

All Lake members are welcome to attend and join.

The Fishing Is Heating Up

Albert Saik has been having good luck with the crappie as these pictures show....

I've also gotten good reports of the average size on the bass being very,very good.
Jimmy Pickle and Jason Moore went out yesterday and had a good day......

Fishing Report

With the spring like days of last week, Jimmy Pickle was able to get out and fish a couple of afternoons. He had some good luck on the bass, catching 25 the first day and 17 the next.

 14 caught on the first day came within an hour and a half. All were good size, including this nice one.

I myself haven't been down in forever. Hope to change that soon. Anybody else been out fishing any? If so let me know how you did.

Fishing Report

It's been a while but the bass fishing seems to be getting better. Jimmy Pickle went out Wednesday afternoon and caught 22 in the deeper water. Not bad for just an afternoon.

Bass Fishing Report

Jimmy Pickle went down last Thursday and Friday.

He and his boat partners had good luck both days. They caught over 50 bass in the two days, cleaning 46 or 47. The others were big throw backers.

So grab some plastic worms and fish shallow, seems to be working.

Another Big Crappie

Jimmy Pickle caught this one last Friday, over 2 lbs.

A Nice Crappie

My nephew Jack shows off a nice crappie caught last week on the Lake by he and my dad.

Fishing Report

Well, more like a wind report.

I got to go down and get in some fishing Saturday afternoon. The wind was up and the Fishing Lake offered the only slack water.

I was glad to see a lot of folks there fishing. Looks like more folks are getting into crappie fishing.

I'm adding a new link to a crappie resource website over on the right hand side of this page under "LINKS"



As for my day I had the kids for about 45 mins. With the slow action that was about all they could take. They are more into catching than fishing. My little girl ,Allen Kaye, did land a good size bream and my son, George, landed this nice crappie........



After taking them back to the house I went back out. On a point near the Temple's I landed a 4-5 pound catfish on 4lb line with a ultra lite reel. 15 minutes later and halfway across the Lake, I finally got him in.....



Although the catfish was not what I was after, it was a lot of fun fighting him on that light tackle.

I moved on the the Fishing Lake and proceeded to miss on about 4 or 5 more crappie. They were hitting the lure real soft and I lost every one right up at the boat. I also missed a bunch of hook sets. It was difficult to tell when they hit the lure. Just very passive and weak strikes. That and my fish finder told me I was on them but they were just not aggressive.

This week's warmer weather should kick them into gear. The water temp Saturday was a consistent 65 degrees. Everything I have read tells me that means the spawn should be here quickly.

Heading in I ran into Mr. and Mrs. Lars Johnson fishing off their pier. They had an assortment of fish in the basket. Mainly bream, but also a crappie and a very nice spotted cat they had caught with what Lars called his "Aggie Rods".

I really enjoyed meeting them and had a nice talk with them.

Hoping to get back down sometime this week. Send me reports or photos if you have them.

Fishing Report

It's been a while since I last updated. Hope to be more regular from now on. I personally haven't been able to get down to the Lake and fish since last July.
Jimmy Pickle and Glen Robinson took advantage of the warm weather lately and went out Tuesday afternoon.

They caught 24 bass, along with a couple of 5 pounders. They also hooked up with 2 big catfish, a channel and a bluecat.

Most were caught shallow on Red Eye Shad.

Anybody having luck with the crappie?

Some Pictures Of Albert's Crappie

Some how I misplaced these pictures from back in May of some sample crappie Albert Saik was catching in May.

Fishing Report

Thanks to Clint McLean for the report and the pictures............

Monday July 4th
"I've been having a lot of luck fishing deep structure with a finesse or trick worm rigged on 1/8oz shaky head football jig. I caught about 10 in 2 hours today on a drop shop rig fishing deep structures and drop offs."

10lber Clint caught on 5/2/11. Caught with a Lucky Craft crankbait. Sexy Shad color


‎6-7lber. Caught on a drop shot rig about 15+ ft deep

Caught by pitching a finesse worm under a pier.

Fishing Update

The bass were pretty picky during May and parts of June. Shad are now being seen on the surface late in the day. Jimmy Pickle and Mike Barnes put in a full day last Thursday. Hitting the Lake before daylight, they had only 5 fish by noon. After a lunch break they went back out and boated 2 until taking another break about 4pm. Heading back out about 6pm they finally got hot, landing 17 more before lighting made them get off the water. They were mainly caught on Carolina rigged worms and Wing Dings.

Late afternoon and deeper seems to be the best bet now.

Russell Young sent in these pictures of some of the bass they caught back at the 1st of May. Sorry it took me so long to get them up.








I did get a report from Albert of a good fishing day a week or so ago for he and Ms. Debbie. Hoping they will send me some pictures.

I need a crappie report if any one has one.

I haven't been able to get down personally to fish. Sorry for the shortage of reports.

Be sure and check out the new official Lake Cavalier website here.......

Fish Fry Tonight

All Lake Cavalier members are invited to the annual Fish Fry tonight. The fish being served was taken out of the Lake when it was shocked recently.

Please try to come out if you can.

Here are some pictures of the shocking and fish cleaning.

Lake Shocking

Southeastern Pond shocked the Lake last Friday morning and had quite a haul. They were able to take out 642 pounds of bass that were under 17 inches.

A crew then headed over to Albert Siak's and cleaned a good many of them. A few people took some and cleaned on their own. Thanks to everyone for helping out. I thought we had a real good turnout to watch and help.

The fish will be used for the Lake wide fish fry in April.

I'll put up the report from SPM when we get it.

Fishing Report and A Reminder

Jimmy Pickle went out the last two afternoon's and had good days each day. The fish were back up shallow both days.

Also the Lake will be shocked this Friday morning. Come out if you can and see what they shock up. Also, if you can, please stick around and help clean the fish that are kept.

These fish are used for the fish fry put on by the Fishing Association. All Lake residents will be invited.

Fishing Report

Jimmy Pickle and his friend John Burkes went out earlier this week and had a good day.

Compared to the day Jimmy and Glen had a few days before it might have seemed slow, but the pattern changed somewhat. The fish had moved deeper, so they changed over to the deep diving crankbaits and caught 26 bass. The average was very good.

Here is John with a couple of "average" 3-4 pound fish..........



Here is Jimmy with the big fish of the day......................



Jimmy went back the next day and had a harder go of it, catching only 10 on a fairly calm, bright, blue sky day. Those are usually very difficult conditions out at the Lake.

But overall the fishing has been great lately.

Now, if only I could get down there to try it myself.

Big Day Fishing At The Lake

Jimmy & Glen headed back yesterday to try the bass again.

They started a little after lunch and by 6 pm had landed 72 bass!

72 bass in around 6 hours. That truly is a big day.

1st Fishing Report of 2011

Jimmy and Glen made it down to the lake Wednesday and had a good day. They caught 27 bass that afternoon.

They had the most luck up very shallow in a pre- spawn pattern. They caught one showing signs of sweeping a bed for spawning.

Water temps are up and with the weather this week should rise even more.

Jimmy said out of the 27 caught only 2 were under 17 inches.

Most were in the 4-5 pound range like the two 5 pounders shown here...............