Tasty smoked kokanee

On Sunday I went fishing on the Helena Valley Regulating Reservoir and caught ten kokanee between 13.5 and 16 inches long.  On any other lake in Montana, the smallest kokanee I caught would be an amazing lunker, but by the end of the summer I should be catching even bigger kokanee on the Regulating Reservoir.  (I keep the fish on ice in a cooler while fishing, but put them on a stringer and gutted them before leaving the lake and heading home).



I smoked some of them.  They came out very tasty. 





And froze the rest for cooking:

I haven't had smoked Kokanee since I was a kid--you're a lucky man!
T2

Nice!  I love kokanee fishing and eating!  We affectionately call that Kokanee candy.   

Where's the big ones? (JK!)

nom-nom right there!