Finally, good smoked crappie...

[Slab]

I love smoked fish and I've never had good luck smoking crappie till today.







I don't have perfect timings, but I think I smoked it for 3.5 hours. And the first 2 hours it had some water in the smoker to keep things moist and not completely dried out. But I think the trick was to actually do some drying, the last 1.5 hours were dry. I had pulled one off early, about 2.5 hours in, and as my usual, the texture of the crappie was mushy. But when I continued to slow smoke it on low, when I was finished, it had great texture. I think I got it Ollie!!!!

[DockShootinJack]

Sounds awesome.

[SuperDave336]

Awesome. Don’t think I’ve had smoked fish like that. Seems like I remember a smoked crappie dip recipe on here you might want to try Slab.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Now for smoked squirrel!

[skeetbum]

Looks like I’d try it. I’ve seen them butterflied and the meat seasoned as it smoked, these were Jack Crevalle, and it was great. Maybe something you could look into. Rock on and keep us posted.

[tlefire]

The second picture looks like a carp.......

[Ketchn]

smoked fish done right is a real treat , they look pretty good sir , congrats

[Rojo]

Did you do any pre-curing? Brining? Salting? etc before going to the smoker.

[hdhntr]

Buddy gave me some king salmon and Lake trout from Lake MI that my son smoked sunday and dropped off yesterday and it was epic. He is the smoker in the family and I do the ketchn mostly so will have to give him a bunch of whole crappie scaled and let him give it a go. Thanks for the tips and pics Slab.

WTG and trial and error with something that you can get anytime you want for next to nothing is the best way to do it.

[Slab]

Did you do any pre-curing? Brining? Salting? etc before going to the smoker.

Yeppers, salt and spices overnight. Have some soaking right now for tomorrow's smoke.

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