Not hardly a peep

I know some of you have to be catchin something....the fall bite is starting. Fished for a couple hours this evening, finally found em in about 4-5fow and wound up keeping 10 over 10" with one good 14"er. I think the deer hunters are headed to the woods as there wasn't but one boat in sight....nearly every fish I cleaned had some shad in their bellies. Gonna try my hand at D10's crappie cake recipe this go round http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...e94a7d5770.jpg


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Nice job.


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What kind of fish are those? Seems like I caught some that looked similar, a long time ago.

Those are some pretty fish. I fished Saturday. I had some outboard issues but still got to fish for over 8 hours, vertical jigging one rod in each hand . I caught quit a few fish but the keepers were far and few between. I ended up catching 4 over 10". Tough as it was to catch a keeper, for me anyway, I had a great time.

Chris

Crappie cakes are good.Nice catch!

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I know some of you have to be catchin something....the fall bite is starting. Fished for a couple hours this evening, finally found em in about 4-5fow and wound up keeping 10 over 10" with one good 14"er. I think the deer hunters are headed to the woods as there wasn't but one boat in sight....nearly every fish I cleaned had some shad in their bellies. Gonna try my hand at D10's crappie cake recipe this go round http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...e94a7d5770.jpg


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had a batch of matt's crappie cakes sat. night. 3rd batch in last 4 months. you will wonder why you didn't try month's ago after you taste one. enjoy. :cheers2

Nice catch. I am thinking about going Wed, that is if work don't get in the way.

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Holy cow! If you haven't tried D10's recipe you've got to....a little more work than just frying them up but can't tell you how good they are. Gotta try it yourself


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Holy cow! If you haven't tried D10's recipe you've got to....a little more work than just frying them up but can't tell you how good they are. Gotta try it yourself


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Looks delicious, is that a secret recipe?

Matt never gives me any crappie cakes...whats the recipe? i have some fresh fillets in my fridge right now waiting to be cooked.

Looks good RK1. Yeah I'd like to see that recipe myself. I've just been using a crab cake recipe but substituting with crappie. Pretty good stuff. I'm always game to try new recipes tho.

Man that looks AWESOME! I wish I could say I have been fishing....but I can't. My last trip was on 9/20/16. I should be ashamed of myself! hopefully I can drown a minner this month!

Ingredients

1 pound crappie fillets

1 bag Zatarain’s Crab Boil

1 egg

¼ cup chopped celery

1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley

Green onions, optional

Jalapenos, optional

1 teaspoon Tony Chachere’s Original Creole Seasoning

1 teaspoon Old Bay Seasoning

1/3 cup mayonnaise

1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard Juice of half a lemon

1 sleeve Ritz crackers ½ stick butter

1 cup peanut oil

Boil crappie fillets with Zatarain’s Crab Boil until they float. Remove fillets; chill about 2 hours.

Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, beat an egg; add celery, parsley, (onions and jalapenos if desired), seasonings, mayonnaise, mustard and lemon juice; mix. Break crappie fillets into chunks; add to mixture. Add enough crushed crackers to mixture so it can be formed into cakes the size of hockey pucks. Roll cakes in crumbs on both sides.

Sauté cakes in butter and peanut oil until both sides are brown. Transfer to baking pan; bake 10 minutes.




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Only thing I did differently was as soon as I removed the filets I crumbled them up on a pan and put them in a fridge. Only took about 25-30 minutes for them to chill


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It's a must to chill the crappie before adding to mixture! Learned that the hard way. That recipe is close to mine but I mix the old bay and Cajun seasoning together an coat fillets. Pan fry with butter in cast iron skillet. Quicker an tastes same IMO. Thanks for posting that

Glad you enjoyed them! I published the recipe in the AGFC 100 year anniversary cook book. I might need to whip some up myself!

Sounds good, gonna have to give that a try.

Someone let me know when you get a batch cooked so I can come by and taste test. The recipe looks good.