![]() ![]() There’s just something about a cold beer or cocktail, a giant platter of fried fish with a wedge of lemon and good friends, that’s hard to beat! Image Courtesy: Įveryone has their own version or favorite way to fry fish, so apply your favorite application, add snakehead and enjoy! Much like any fish, it always tastes better fried. ![]() When it all comes together it creates an awesome summertime dish! #2 – Fry ‘Em Up! ![]() You probably want to make this first before cooking your fish. Once finished cover and put into the fridge to let everything merry and come together. Zest of a lime and then Juice the whole lime Image Courtesy: ġ large ripe mango, peeled and diced into cubesġ/2 red bell pepper, seeded and diced into cubesġ/2 a shallot or 1/4 of red onion, diced and cubedġ fresh jalapeno diced and cubed, (more seeds = more spice)Ī couple of sprigs of fresh cilantro, finely diced stem and all With how firm the fillet is it can hold a good amount of salsa on top without being too heavy and masking the flavor of the fish. I’m a huge fan of a vegetal or fruit-based salsa with fish tacos. A little bit of olive oil or butter in a pan and a fresh fillet of snakehead.Lightly crack salt and pepper on both sides of the fillet.Snakeheads have large tough scales which would inhibit cooking and just wouldn’t look appetizing. Make sure you take the skin off of your fillet. The most simple yet effective way to truly taste the fish is to pan-sear them. Now if snakehead ceviche isn’t your thing these next few dishes should be simple and delicious ways to prepare snakehead. So far, snakehead has done well on restaurant menus helping combat this alien invasion. Seaver, Parola, and Wells have been among the front lines serving snakehead on their menus. It was an invasive-species eradication plan in a martini glass.” “ Chef Chad Wells of Alewife restaurant tossed chunks of raw snakehead fish with cilantro and citrus to make something more ambitious than an $8 ceviche appetizer. “Eating invasive species is a really fun and interesting and charismatic way of attacking a very acute problem,” said Seaver, who advocates for sustainable seafood. If it weren’t for the name I think it would be on more menus.” “Can’t beat ’em, eat ’em,” is the slogan from Louisiana chef Philippe Parola. So instead of giving your garden some snakehead fertilizer try filleting it up and pan-searing them. Eat the invaders is what people are calling it when they harvest these fish. Snakehead have a slightly more firm fillet than tilapia and near-zero gaminess or fishiness. Now onto eating these slimy missiles of piss and vinegar. Much like bass fishermen if a bass misses a topwater strike they can throw in a submersible bait into the same area and most likely get bit. If you get followed or get a short strike, change your fly and cast to the exact same area. They will chase your fly all the way back to the boat but won’t eat it. These fish may have a bad reputation and you’d think they would be easy to catch but it’s quite the opposite. A wire leader could mean the difference between holding one of these slimy invaders and a lost fly. Along with the heavy cover and teeth, 30lb fluoro is commonly used. Baitfish streamers, topwater frog and mice patterns, and others such as gurglers and poppers have been known to work. These fish sit in heavy vegetation, cover, and have been known to have birds, small mammals, and frogs in their bellies. This brings me to catching these toothy fish. Any sort of invader is bound to get eaten. The female and male will guard these bright orange fry balls much like a female Largemouth bass. The fry will hatch in 2-4 days and then will feed off of the embryonic sacs they are attached to. They are very territorial during this time of year because they guard their eggs. Dependent upon the ecosystem, Northern Snakehead can spawn UP TO 5 TIMES in one season from April to August, which potentially means 50,000 eggs can be laid in a season. They also mature very fast and start spawning within 1-3 years. They have the ability to breathe oxygen and can survive out of water for 4 days. The biggest threat they pose is an introduction to the Great Lakes where they could potentially wreak havoc on the very intricate and unique ecosystems.Ĭhanna Argus or the Northern Snakehead are very unique fish. The largest population resides in the Potomac River drainage where they pose a large threat to the native species and ecosystems. Snakehead have now been seen in 7 states since their introduction in Maryland. Snakehead were believed to be introduced to the United States through illegal exotic fish dumping. Snakehead are an invasive species in the United States but are native and a delicacy in Asia. ![]()
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