eating big stripers

[kwhoward]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it. Which way do you cut the fillet? they must be 2 1/2 to 3" thick...Do you cut them narrower & cook the pcs on their sides or make the fillet thinner? I hope this makes some sense. I took the whole fillets & cut chunks (top to bottom) about 3" wide, each chunk weighing about a pound, enough for 2people, & then I vacuum pack them for the freezer.

Wow, you let the big ones go? I hardly ever catch stripers & love to eat them, So I keep the legal ones. The big one I caught (36#), I've read, was probably about 15 years old & it does seem sad to kill the older breeders. That seems old for a fish, No?. KW