Herring
 

Did a job in Jamestown the other night. Ferrying a crew member out to a ship in the anchorage..

While on the dock several guys were looking like they were jigging for squid. When I walked by they were catching herring ..

Outside of pickling them. How else would you prepare them to eat?

I will assume they were jigging up Blueback herring. I don't think they could be Aewives at this time of year. I never heard of anyone eating Blueback.

Sea herring? December was when we would start to see schools of sea herring in the inlets and bays on Long Island. At Montauk, you could see gannets by the hundreds feeding on them. Guys would catch them 3-4 at a time on Sabiki rigs from the Jones Beach fishing piers. We just bought some picked local herring the other day, and you just motivated me to have a few. They call them "glass master's herring" here for some reason.

WOW!! Amazing

As a kid I can remember a large crock in my grandmother’s basement filled with herring , a round cover small enough to fit inside the crock with a brick on top,,, most likely river herring

I don’t remember ever eating any…. LOL

Also chunk bait on tub trawls for cod…. Blue backs

Time is right for Sea Herring and no fishing for river herring

I have occasionally fished for sea herring around this time of year. I pickled a few. Whatever veggies I put in w/the herring tasted better than the herring.

I've never tasted any herring as good as ones from the Baltic Sea. Norway, Sweden, Finland, take your pick. All good. Never had any from Estonia but I imagine they're just as good.

Do you eat them like the Dutch with minced onions and straight down the hatch?

After I posted this I went online about how to eat them .

Saw a YouTube video on the different ways they eat herring

And saw the minced onion addition..

I would try a small piece 1st. Not a fishy fish eater.

Thanks for all the interesting responses.

When I was a kid my dad and buddies had a jar of Newfoundland lollipops in the fridge. Dried salted herring.
Now the call em blind robins
They sell some small
Packs at market basket. I buy one on ocassion. Never use it all. Wicked salty and you need a few drinks
To get one down. Brought back some memories thou. Smoked dried salty
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Pickled Fish, Sardines, Anchovies:

Just Can't :hs:

There are onions in the brine in the jar, but I just stab a piece of herring with a cocktail fork. If a piece of onion catches on the herring, great, but I don't make an effort to find one.

Very common for them to be jigged up on the squid causeway in Newport when they are in, usually mixed with macks.
Oh, and eating them. Nope, except for anchovies on a Caeser salad, I'll pass on pickled fish.

Sardines mashed up with a hard boiled egg sandwich, nothing better

a must !