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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: armytruck on September 05, 2008, 09:05:07 PM

Title: Marble or what
Post by: armytruck on September 05, 2008, 09:05:07 PM
Stupid question but , a friend of mine started  to fillet a spring I gave him to do up in the smoker . He called me and told me that the upper half of the spring was really pink and the back half was really red like sockeye . My question is , is this what you would class as a marble ?  :P After bonking it last week and cutting it open , it was really white to me  ???
Title: Re: Marble or what
Post by: Tex on September 05, 2008, 09:18:04 PM
I have a little bit of trouble responding to this, as I'm picturing the back and the top both as along the spine, and you gave those two sections different colours.  LOL 

I think, though, that you are probably looking at a marbled spring.  I've caught a fair few before, and they tend to be pinky-white in one section and more red-ish in the other.

Sounds like a nice fish!
:D
Tex
Title: Re: Marble or what
Post by: ~IvAn~ on September 05, 2008, 11:14:41 PM
yes thats a marble
Title: Re: Marble or what
Post by: Rieber on September 06, 2008, 05:38:05 PM
Marble - or a sick fish.
Title: Re: Marble or what
Post by: adriaticum on September 06, 2008, 06:23:07 PM
Good questions, I wonder it that has anything to do with their fat reserves, amount of protein they have etc.
Or maybe cross breed.
Any scientists out there?
Title: Re: Marble or what
Post by: Every Day on September 06, 2008, 06:25:36 PM
Did the meat look like this  ???

(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg25/fishing_in_summer/IMG_1310.jpg)

There are different degrees of marble also. Some look like this (just white fringes along edges) and other are pure white with red stripes or vis-versa. Some spring are also a pinkish colour throughout the whole fillet, I would consider that a marble as well  ;)

Most likely cross breeding
Title: Re: Marble or what
Post by: adriaticum on September 06, 2008, 06:29:46 PM
Yes. exactly like that.
Nice fillets.
Not like mine... ;D
Title: Re: Marble or what
Post by: Every Day on September 06, 2008, 06:35:49 PM
Yes. exactly like that.
Nice fillets.
Not like mine... ;D

Mine don't look so great after I try to de-bone them (the rib cage part) ;D  I find if you leave them in the smoker long enough most of the bones dissapear anyways  ;)
Title: Re: Marble or what
Post by: armytruck on September 06, 2008, 10:10:41 PM
Yup , that's what it looks like  ;D another 24 hours of brine and in the smoker it goes  ;)