Toronto SALMON and RAINBOW TROUT: Part 2 (Catch Clean Cuisine)

so the bik slowed down a little bit inside so we pushed off about 8 or N9 miles to a place called the Blue Zone in the middle of Lake Ontario Lake Ontario really is like an ocean it's so big and vast you would never know you were on a lake if you didn't know this was Lake Ontario if you look around us here you literally can't see Shore in that direction or to the south of us where New York and buffalo are today is a good day to be off here because it's calm this Lake the weather conditions can change so fast in bad wind the waves are huge Greg what's the biggest wave that was recorded out here wasn't there one last year that was like 42 ft or something no I remember a couple years ago we had on a marker buoy so that's a weather buoy that measures the wave height was 28 ft 28 ft so that's a good uh that's a good Surf Wave in most worldclass surf destinations see some of these Great Lake Freighters that are out on the Great Lake transporting Fuel and Grain and stuff like that had to get off the lake and seek shelter it was that big out here so that's basically like a cruise ship having to get off the ocean it's uh it's nothing to screw around with out here this lake has claimed a lot of people something Eerie about being out this far and this lake is deep too right it's not like Eerie this Lake the deepest part is over 900 feet yep we do have one spot in this Lake that's 820 ft deep lake herei the deepest is only 220 so I'm not going to go down there to see what lives there but uh I know a few people I'd like to live down there well I threaten my daughter's boyfriend all the time good out here good keep him sharp okay he's still on he's got to be still on yeah there he is there oh he's coming right at you he's coming right at us oh it's a nice bow yeah Jesus that swam right to the boat jump baby jump jump jump jump come on come on come [Music] on [Music] a we got him oh big bow big bow oh yeah oh yeah that's what we wanted to show you guys that's a Lake Ontario Blue Zone bow baby he's already off look at [Music] this look at this fish W there's a bow double the size triple from the last one what a beautiful fish it's a solid 8 lb nice big dorsal fin beautiful tail look at the Speckles on the tail this one you'll be able to see the teeth a lot clearer look at that predatory machine right there oh yeah what a beautiful fish they have teeth on their tongue like a lake trout they're inverted backwards so once prey gets in it's not getting [Music] out all right we're going to flight one of these nice coo we got inside we bled it out it's been in cold water it's only an hour or two old so let's see how fresh it looks anytime you filet freshwater fish you're going to notice that they're different than saltwater [Music] fish the meat is a little bit lighter in color [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] there's fresh Lake Ontario salmon see the marbling in that definitely not as dark as wild Atlantic sammon or Pacific salmon there we go two beautiful PES of go go up up all right while we're fleeing I think a nice little rainbow just hit this on the shallow rigger there we go Greg called that too he said we were going to get fed he saw it did you see that thing straight down yeah I saw it on on the live scope yeah here he is right here going a Shak her oh just got off bastard we saw him a leader touch we got we got him yeah in a Marlin tournament that would have counted right behind the PEX to the backbone lateral cut straight down mail bads bur tack you can see his last supper right there so that's called and Al wife that's the common bait Lake Ontario we do have some smelt sometimes they stickle backs but their main forage is an L wife so when we do our big tournaments on Lake Ontario we actually donate a lot of our fish to the trono zoo they do some testings because they feed them to the bear they're very uh regulated on what they eat make sure they're very healthy for them they actually test better than any farm raised fish that they've ever been donated including BC salmon they spend their life in clean water you could probably eat fish out of here all summer you'd be okay give you a little trick that I do I've dropped some filets over the ears overboard so I create a little handle right there that way I'm able to rinse my fish over the side ready to rinse [Music] beautiful place more coo first time me and Greg ever fished out here together I think we went 0 for9 in the morning had nine fish on all got off the 10th fish we hooked it was a beautiful King got right to the boat and it dove into the prop and killed itself and then we got like 35 that day so just goes to show you this a little Shaker anyways B yeah Beauty we got our bow ladies and gentlemen there we go little rainbow trout not the giant one we were looking for but still perfect eater size perfect eater size rainbow there's your mixed bag of Lake Ontario right there go shinuk rainbow got you got another one we got another boom boom hit it hit it hit it it can turn into a show in a hurry here there you go Bud boom that one feels better he spit it he Spot It I leave you alone for 5 seconds 5 seconds and I make her spit that's what happen literally the video story of our life today this is a beautiful little Rainbow perfect eater size great for the pan or the barbecue you can always tell a rainbow they've got a white tongue they have a square tail looks more like a paddle looks more like a mermaid tail than any of the other fish so not a salmon looks similar but you can tell the differences the teeth aren't that pronunciated on this one it's too small but it is still a beautiful little rainbow oh screamer screamer bingo bingo bango Bango oh he nailed that one oh yeah yeah there I can see it just bubbled in the [Music] back oh yeah that's a nice bow Big B that's a big rainbow so Rainbows are real acrobatic they're amazing to watch so if you see he may jump again jum right in the back there right in our spread I don't want to put too much heat on this one beautiful spit it again do me a favor can you grab the rod and let him video F this why does you do that full moon bite buddy that's what they do sometimes short fite buddy it's frustrating and you know they don't commit 100% no [Music] straight down the backbone electric knes are literally the difference between sanity and jumping into the lake sometimes here we go [Music] now it's important when you're cooking your salmon don't overcook it guys soon as that color changes in the meat flakes off ready to go if you overcook your salmon it will become dry but could you do sushi out of this Lake no no but if some people actually do but we recommend in freezing it for at least 48 hours before um any of the nematodes and parasites I would never do sui on a freshwater fish this is the little Chinook we got from earlier call these shakers cuz of the way they shake the line when they bite it they're small fast agile through the backbone [Applause] there beautiful piece of lunch meat I would have loved to have had that pack when I was a kid my daughter's going to be lucky everyone else is going to have lunchable she's going to have Lake Ontario Salon two nice pieces ready for the fryer now for the rainbow last time I kept a rainbow out of here the meat on it was a little bit white and it wasn't that great to eat to be honest so I'm hoping this one has a little bit more color to it find the darker the color the better The Taste let's see oh yeah that's what we're looking for female you can see the row look at that just got bit again this is why you can't fish you want this one y here we go bud let me lose it for [Music] you woo feels like a smaller one oh yeah another little Shaker [Applause] rainbow little bigger actually oh yeah beautiful fish beautiful color H her there you go Beauty get a whack them tackle spoon wack tackle spoon wack and tacle pretend you know what that is on the Corona color Corona color oh yeah this fish is nice and vibrant look at that you can see the rainbow tinge on the dorsal fin there look at that look at those Speckles wow look at that with the CN Tower in the background Lake Ontario rainow trout oh yeah a [Music] [Music] this was my first cat stormmy he's been through it all seen it all it's a beautiful purebred Himalayan hey buddy he's not very camera friendly but he's he's the OG aren't you [Music] yeah okay this is the beautiful piece of coo that we got today in Lake Ontario you can tell it's a little bit more pale than wild salmon that you would get out of BC BC salmon is more red because the diet of fish in the ocean they eat a lot of crustaceans Cur shrimp it actually tinges the meat a more reddish color so here in The Lakes their diet is only Bait fish like Herring smelt ale wives so the meat ends up becoming a little more pale in comparison to a wild salmon it is not the best salmon I'm not going to lie to you guys it's not a wild salmon it is stocked Lake fish but for for what we have in the middle of a big City Metropolis it's pretty good we're going to season it lightly with Old Bay any fisherman who's anything who knows anything about fishing Ever Knows Old Bay it's a secret blend of salts and spices I've been using it since I was a kid and it is by far the best fish seasoning in the world I don't care if you're from Florida and like Everglades or you've got your own special mix old B beats them every time so if you haven't tried it get some [Music] we skinned it so there's no scales deboned it now we're rubbing in the Old Spice you can see on the back here too I did cut out most of the bloodline so it doesn't taste fishy anytime you get fishy taste with fish it's because it had too much bloodline in it or it wasn't fresh this fish is fresh and has no bloodline so it's as fresh as a lake salmon is going to be the air show today was pretty awesome too we saw the fighter jets going by so it's always a nice day in the city where you've got salmon and fighter jets you can see the marbling on the COO it's definitely the nicest marbling out of any salmon that's stocked in the lake Lake Ontario you've got coo you've got shinuk the king salmon and rainbow trout every once in a while you'll get a pink salmon my buddy actually just caught a pink salmon the other day but pink salmon are usually native D and wild to British Columbia in the Atlantic so to find one all the way in Lake Ontario pretty amazing got our pan on high I've got a good little technique that involves using a lot of butter so we've got a lot of melted butter here in our pan and this I got at the Austin film festival in Texas but you add a little bit of hot sauce to your butter it's like a whole new concoction SC that [Music] around okay see how the salmon turns out with [Music] this don't want to move it too much don't play with your food wait for the butter to start heating up nice oh yeah you can see the bubbling start boiling butter now when it gets to a boil like that we're going to add more butter now you can see the edges already starting to cook I'm going to turn it down from high to just medium then when the butter starts to simmer nice like this we base the top of it a lot of people love to over complicate their salmon they like to put it on cedar planks grills and all that is great but sometimes Simplicity especially when it's not the highest quality fish in the world always turns out for best I'm going to add a little bit more Old Bay right shakes [Music] there now you can see on the fillet here that color where the meat is is already cooked almost all the way through we're going to turn the heat down just a tad we're going to flip our fillet and I've only had it on the pan for about 3 minutes it's already almost done when the fish is almost close to being fully cooked we're going to turn the pan off because the fillet is so hot it's actually still going to cook when we turn off the stove here one we old day little bit of [Music] Louisiana beautiful all right we're going to take that off let it rest for a minute see how it tastes right after here we are with the co-host straight out of the pan the Old Bay has made a nice Golden Crust with the butter on top you can see the flesh it's not as red or as orange as salmon you would find from the West Coast or in stores it's definitely got its own unique color to it but doesn't look that bad at all a lot of people are very weary about eating fish out of Lake Ontario salmon have a very short lifespan they only live maximum 4 to 5 years so they don't have a lot of time to accumulate any toxins or stuff in the big lakes like some of the other fish do almost looks like a mix of chicken and salmon [Music] chamon definitely tastes like salmon though that concludes the Lake Ontario s an episode in Toronto everyone hope you enjoyed it hope you learned something if you never knew these fish were here get out there and get some yourself bring them home cook them up you don't have to go far to enjoy these fish in fact you don't have to leave your backyard so hope you enjoyed it see you on the next one [Music]