Eating Northern Pike

[Hodgey1]

whats next? Bacon fat poaching? 

[fishtildark]

AND... now you are starting to approach deep frying..which there is nothing wrong with. 

[Hodgey1]

Ok, so it's been enough years since I've eaten Northern Pike that I apparently had forgotten how delicious it is. I started this thread, due to bringing home a pike from Kipawa that I intended to safely release. It wouldn't right itself so we kept it. I filleted it as I would a walleye and was warned about the Y bones. Suggestion we're giving to boil and serve with butter and pick out the bones.

I decided to try to debone, and used the technique in this video and it worked great.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fkamOetxH7o

I lightly floured, then pan fried in a little butter and olive oil and man was it delicious! I'm saying it, it was every bit as good as the walleye. Thanks guys for reminding me how good pike can be.