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Fresh water mussels #2644986 07/14/11 08:01 AM 07/14/11 08:01 AM
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 6,683 PA G gryhkl OP trapper
gryhkl OP trapper G Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 6,683 PA	Are these good to eat? If so, how are they fixed? Thanks

Re: Fresh water mussels [Re: gryhkl] #2645066 07/14/11 09:38 AM 07/14/11 09:38 AM
Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 1,287 Powell TN S stan meyers trapper
stan meyers trapper S Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 1,287 Powell TN	Native americans ate them, but as for taste ?

Re: Fresh water mussels [Re: gryhkl] #2645105 07/14/11 10:14 AM 07/14/11 10:14 AM
Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 10,801 S/E Mich - N/W Ohio On a Call trapper
On a Call trapper Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 10,801 S/E Mich - N/W Ohio	I have ate them. Fixed the right way they are good just like anything. However they need to be well cooked no tellin what they have been eating. Lots of garlic and butter MMM..do them up like escargo. BTW....be carefull, in many states it is no longer leagal to harvest them. Last edited by On a Call; 07/14/11 10:15 AM. Wind watch. http://hint.fm/wind/ http://www.chonday.com/Videos/jerkubeefmak3 http://www.michiganoutofdoorstv.com/shows.cfm http://earth.nullschool.net

Re: Fresh water mussels [Re: gryhkl] #2645631 07/14/11 06:39 PM 07/14/11 06:39 PM
Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 55 N.W.PA E ewoktrapper trapper
ewoktrapper trapper E Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 55 N.W.PA	Originally Posted By: gryhkl Are these good to eat? If so, how are they fixed? Thanks Not allowed to keep them in Pa.It's in your Pa Fishing law book...

Re: Fresh water mussels [Re: gryhkl] #2645732 07/14/11 07:58 PM 07/14/11 07:58 PM
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 6,683 PA G gryhkl OP trapper
gryhkl OP trapper G Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 6,683 PA	Guess it doesn't matter. Good enough.

Re: Fresh water mussels [Re: gryhkl] #2645758 07/14/11 08:18 PM 07/14/11 08:18 PM
Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 55 N.W.PA E ewoktrapper trapper
ewoktrapper trapper E Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 55 N.W.PA	Yeah it made me mad...I use them for bait.Crack one of them open and put a treble hook in the foot.The catfish love it.Great trapping bait too.We use to be allowed 25 ea,so with the kids and I gave me 100 for mink bait.

Re: Fresh water mussels [Re: gryhkl] #2645788 07/14/11 08:42 PM 07/14/11 08:42 PM
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,416 Volant Pa. jeremy brua trapper
jeremy brua trapper Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,416 Volant Pa.	at a farm pond i fish they are everywhere on the banks. someone told me that the muskrats are eating them. i thought it would more likly to be coon. a few turtles i cought were full of them! don't worry over the smart ones. catch the dumb ones, they pay the same. i can do it because i dont know that i cant. Nì òigear leisg bodach brisg

Re: Fresh water mussels [Re: gryhkl] #2645898 07/14/11 10:09 PM 07/14/11 10:09 PM
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 4,690 Illinois foxkidd44 trapper
foxkidd44 trapper Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 4,690 Illinois	when it was legal to harvest them here in illinois....i used to make homemade clam choweder with them..............i'd chop them up in the food processor. Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last. Abraham Lincoln

Re: Fresh water mussels [Re: gryhkl] #2646070 07/15/11 12:11 AM 07/15/11 12:11 AM
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 7,628 evansville Indiana age72 don Wolf trapper
don Wolf trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 7,628 evansville Indiana age72	I tried the one time. Never again. You might well as eat rubber

Re: Fresh water mussels [Re: gryhkl] #2646154 07/15/11 06:33 AM 07/15/11 06:33 AM
Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 52 Pike County, Pa. Pinebear trapper
Pinebear trapper Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 52 Pike County, Pa.	Otters love them, they leave piles of shells on the shore.

Re: Fresh water mussels [Re: gryhkl] #2646314 07/15/11 10:24 AM 07/15/11 10:24 AM
Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 1,287 Powell TN S stan meyers trapper
stan meyers trapper S Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 1,287 Powell TN	Muskrats love them jeremy, try using one for bait at a rat set and see.

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