Basic fishing gear for Lake Powell?

If the cerviche recipe was too much for you, here is another pretty simple crowd pleaser for folks who want to eat some fish.
Start by adding a little olive oil and butter to a pan cook down and start caramelize one large onion cut up into 1/4 pieces.
Then add 2 pounds of fillets whatever fish you have,
cook but do not over cook.
Take a bag of coleslaw mix empty into a bowl and add some mayonnaise, low fat, or olive oil type to taste. Then add a 1/2 a bag of dry taco seasoning and fold it altogether. Add more taco seasoning if you like. try and find the low sodium stuff.
warm some corn type tortillas (a lot less sodium than the flour type)
Take the tortilla slap some low fat sour cream on the bottom, then add some fish and then add the coleslaw mix. Then top it off with a thin strip of Sirachi sauce or not.
We just set up an assembly line plates first, then the tortillas, low fat sour cream, then the fish, then the coleslaw mix, lastly the Sirachi sauce. Cheap and you can feed a bunch. It's great and cheap to do. Bon Appetite'
D.D.
 
Dave, that sounds good!

Another recipe... In a plastic bag, mix a small amount of creole seasoning into a batter mix, season to taste. We use 'Pride of the West' mix, one of the batter mixes that is on the shelves here on the left coast. Put the fillets in the bag, shake it, then into the fry pan. Eat as is, with lemon wedges, or with tartar sauce. It's got a bit of bite, and is really tasty. At Powell, I prefer striped bass.
 
I have to weigh in with rogerbum and BrentB. Uncooked FW fish, as sushi, sashimi or ceviche, can be bad news. FW fish can harbour really nasty (read: "NASTY") parasites which can infect people. And, not all of them are just tapeworms. Parasites from SW fish, not so much. These things are killed by heat, or maybe by freezing or slicing your fish paper thin. (Good luck with all that!) Lime juice won't be enough.
Bacterial contamination -- that's something else. So much depends on care in handling and preparation. A contaminated knife can ruin a lot of otherwise clean fish, even if it comes from "good" water. I wouldn't trust lime juice here, either. :shock:
Rod
 
Thanks, Jody. I'll have a look at those.

Crappie are the only ones I've caught before - they were on the small northern lakes I used to fish as a kid. They tended to come in "holes." As in, most panfish would be in various places most of the time; but crappies tended to be nowhere until they were somewhere, and then there were tons of them in that one spot.
 
Roger and Brent - of course just because nobody got sick from Tex's ceviche of course does not prove it was "safe" - we ate it in large quantities every time he made it - but here is an article quoting from the Journal of Food Protection. As you can see, they used tilapi, which is fish largely raised on raw sewage (friends don't let friends eat tilapia, sorry is this offends some people). Bacteria nor salmonella survived at detectible levels in pure lime jucie. The bacteria were handled in the tilapia "cooked" in lime juice but the salmonella were pretty resistant. Honest, I am not really concerned about eating ceviche made with bass from the fairly clean waters of Lake Powell marinated overnight. YMMV.
 
Hi Pat


I was piggy backing on Rogers comments by adding parasites

I had public health hat on and folks should know the risks and been around

Food borne outbreaks for over 30 yrs.


A little m2cw will help others in practicing safe food practices. And at the same time enjoying an excellent food item and
Recreational activities

Go well
 
After having several places have problems logging onto Utah's fishing license web site,, we went to Styx Liquor, Bait and Tackle. (Downtown, across the street PIZZA HUT.) He seemed to have a direct line to the fishing license site, and in 5 minutes we both had out licenses.

Styx has an outstanding selection of plastic lures. The rod and reel selection was small and expensive (rods $300). Walmart had mostly Shakespeare, a few other brands. Moderate selection of hooks, line and lures. I saw rods and reels I liked better in Sequim.
 
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