How much you pay for salmon??

montanajoe

Fish truck was parked at the local butcher shop today.  Went over to it after we got our beef.  They had 10lbs. of 'Fresh Frozen' salmon for $145.  I passed. 

Nanuq907

I pay about $40 for a tank of gas, and limit of 3 is about 30 lbs of fillets per person.  See, this is why I HATE salmon.  Growing up it's all we ate.  Salmon patties, salmon balls, salmon chowder, salmon steaks, salmon and noodle alfredo... squaw candy, hard smoked, soft smoked, salmon and scrambled eggs, after 30 or 40 years you've just had ENOUGH fricken salmon.
Once we backpacked into the Gulkana river from a certain *cough* road marker on a secret trail and the river was low, and full of Kings.  You could see them from the high bank just laying in behind the boulders.  Five of us dropped down in there and didn't keep anything less than 45 lbs.  In an afternoon we had headed and cleaned fish, 3 apiece, averaging 40 lbs each.  120 lbs of fish per person, we hiked back out with 600 lbs of King salmon.  It was 4 or 5 miles back to the van and apparently the bears knew that trail too.  Breaking branches and huffing had us scooting along pretty quick, until we saw BIG brown fur coming through the alders and popping jaws, and we dropped our backpacks.  Dang it, I really liked that backpack.

dreher

I love salmon!!  Maybe twice a week?  But every day??  Oh hell no.  I really get where you are coming from Nanuk!

NeoBlackdog

I've got a 1.1 lb sockeye fillet in the 'fridge for dinner tonight.  It was just under $10/lb.  
Chinooks and silvers are good, but nothin' beats the sockeye for flavor!

SCOUT5

Living in Southern Indiana it's a lot cheaper to buy than to go catch.

SCOUT5

I live about an hour south of them in Charlestown.    

SCOUT5

BTW Forge there is some good summer time crappie fishing in a lake in Muscatatuck Wildlife Refuge down around Seymour.   You have to paddle it though, not motors not even electric.   In case you need to take the grandson fishing.

nmyers

In the mideast, we are usually offered only "Atlantic salmon".  Pale, flavorless, it's no comparison to the salmon we ate in Alaska.

Neal

nononsense

I used to fish for salmon on the Northern Indiana portion of the St. Joe River for years when I lived in Chicago. Cold weather, cold water and a ton of fun chasing them on lighter tackle. We'd fillet whatever we caught at the dock when we pulled in, then head right straight back to the motel to get the grill started for supper. Simple meals, salmon and a salad. Early to bed, early to rise and start all over again!

Best.

Sam06

I like smoked Salmon.  I get a pack maybe once a month.

I am lucky to live not far from the ocean and have a guy who brings fresh fish and shrimp every week to the area.  I order my fish and shrimp from him and go pick it up.  My favorite fish is Orange Roughy its good when fresh and he always has nice 16-20 shrimp.

Warbirds

I don’t think that is an unreasonable price for a fish you can’t catch locally. I just don’t need 10lbs in the freezer at one time.

Don McManus

I'll pay up to $ 18.00 a pound for fresh salmon.

'Fresh Frozen' can usually be had for half that, and the extra price is not worth it IMO.

montanajoe

The  fresh frozen is what got me.  I'm sure it was fresh when it got frozen, but don't know when that was, or where.  So their deal was no better than the fresh of a grocery store.

Brookwood

Back in the mid to late 60's the Michigan DNR planted Coho salmon in several of the local rivers around here (Traverse City) leading into Lake Michigan.  After a couple years, us youngsters would go Coho snagging during the spawn in the fall.  Snagging using a small weighted treble hook.  It was legal for a short time back then.  

I remember catching the first (big) fish in my life that must have weighed 20 lbs!  Not just one either!  Took a bushel basket home from the harbor loaded with em! My mom prepared that first catch nightly dinner with great care.  Flopping fresh baked salmon with many of her special fixen's on the side.  I can still remember my first bite along with the many distraught faces of my many siblings including my dad that ended up being the one and only bite of the fish that tasted like it was born to become cat food!   

I spent that evening helping my pop dig holes to fertilize my moms rose garden. 

Nanuq907

If you ever get a chance, try some fresh Copper River red salmon. It’s the one salmon I’ll stand in line for.

When the run starts they’ll hustle the first few fish off to the airport and fly it to Seattle On the “Salmon Forty Salmon” and there they make a huge deal out of preparing it in a high end restaurant. What a hoot!

Horse Plains Drifter

I think it's $10.00-$14.50/lb in town. We get it from a neighbor up the road. I will only eat it if it's smoked, but the wife likes the fillets. 

Nanuq907

How do you like to smoke it? I use hickory and apple wood chips for smoke and make a brine with brown sugar, Yoshidas and some secret ingredients, and smoke it until it’s hard glazed over and shiny. Squaw Candy with the skin on.

Eskimos preserve it another way...

montanajoe

I prefer it smoked too HPD. Wife will get fillets from the store and do them up somehow in the oven.  They taste real good, but not like smoked.   You know, I need I new smoker.  

montanajoe

Yep apple wood chips.  Also pour cran-apple juice in the water bowl.  

select-fire

I also fished the St. Joe river in Indiana by the dam. Fish on...   however not one time.. I caught a huge Brown trout.

select-fire

Just had some can salmon patties for supper with fried taters.

asop

Last week wife paid $20 a pound but only bought 1 pound!  She makes pasta and lightly poaches the salmon.  Serves it on top of the pasta with  marinara and grated cheese-REALLY a good dish

Butchdog2

Local restaurant serves a Bacon Salmon burger, looks and taste good, 8.95 and includes any side. They will also make you any kind of salad on the menu with salmon. I like the south west chicken salad but substitute salmon, Delicious.

kimi

I don't ordinarily pay above $6.00 a pound for fish. I did pick up four, fresh frozen whole Sockeye salmon minus the heads for $5.00 a pound, about three months back. Have two left in the freezer.

Horse Plains Drifter

Most people smoke salmon with alder here.

pickenup

No idea what the price is, never buy it, don't care for salmon.

Am I the only one? Well except for Nanuq907.

Now if you want to talk halibut..........

Nanuq907

Mmmmmm halibut is pretty good.  But you know what, I prefer black cod or a couple of the other rockfish to halibut.  We catch monster 'butts down in Homer, 300 pound barn doors more than 100 years old.  But you filet those old girls and they're FULL of worms.  Pretty nasty, a fish that old just ain't good eatin, and they're the breeding stock too.  Stick with the "chickens", 30 to 40 pounders.  There's plenty of them and they taste way better.

Nanuq907

kimi said:

I did pick up four, fresh frozen whole Sockeye salmon minus the heads for $5.00 a pound, about three months back. Have two left in the freezer.

If you're going to keep them awhile be sure to vacuum pack.  If you don't have one of them, dip them in ice and freeze until they build a thick ice shell.  They last a little longer.  When I was a kid my job was to pull the salmon out of the freezer in the garage, use the meat saw to take off half a dozen 2" steaks, then dip and refreeze the cut end.  Boy the cat would show up quick, the "saw dust" was salmon meat and he'd lick it off the saw.

Brookwood

Although I do like many kinds of smoked fish, IMHO the main reason a fish is smoked is because it tastes bad if cooked any other way.    

Mobuck

89 cents a can??

kimi

Nanuq907 said:

kimi said:

I did pick up four, fresh frozen whole Sockeye salmon minus the heads for $5.00 a pound, about three months back. Have two left in the freezer.

If you're going to keep them awhile be sure to vacuum pack.  If you don't have one of them, dip them in ice and freeze until they build a thick ice shell.  They last a little longer.  When I was a kid my job was to pull the salmon out of the freezer in the garage, use the meat saw to take off half a dozen 2" steaks, then dip and refreeze the cut end.  Boy the cat would show up quick, the "saw dust" was salmon meat and he'd lick it off the saw.

Thanks, Nanuq!

pulsarnc

Wife is cooking salmon patties as I read this thread . Me , I am having pot roast for supper .

Nanuq907

Oh yeah, that could be Indian Valley meats, or 10th and M Seafoods doing that.  Smart way to go, you can turn a cooler full of fillets into a couple 1-gallon ziplocks that don't weigh anything.
My sister was flying back to college years ago, bringing some frozen salmon for the grandparents in her carry-on.  She also had her teddy bear in there and when she put it through the x-ray the images aligned and the technician about had a heart attack, slammed the STOP button and screamed YOU HAVE A DOG IN THERE???!!!!??????