Herring

[piemma]

Originally Posted by wdmso

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.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by piemma

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.

[piemma]

Originally Posted by Mike P

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

[Guppy]

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

[JohnR]

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