Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Eat My Fish! This morning, I stopped at Bullfrog Fish Farm in (very) rural Menomonie, WI, for a look at their operation.  Bullfrog will be supplying fish for some of the filleting demos that the Johnson Brothers and I will be doing this coming season at Gander Mountain stores in Wisconsin and Minnesota.  (I'll try to post those dates on my Web site calendar, but you can also find them on the Gander Mountain Web site by looking here.) Bullfrog's "soul proprietor," Herbie Radmann, is quite a character.  If you get a chance, check out his Web site and visit his farm.  In addition to selling dressed trout to restaurants and offering catch-your-own fishing fun in a big pond, Herbie caters a delicious shore lunch and produces a tasty trout spread and yummy smoked trout.  There's even live music on some summer evenings and weekends. Herbie also raises rusty crayfish for crayfish boils and snacks, and the heads and guts from his dressed trout keep his three pigs fat and happy (though when he butchered one last year, it tasted like fish guts, he said!). Tomorrow, I hope to report on the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers golf tournament and a delicious duck dinner I had tonight at Arrowwood Resort, if chef James gives me his recipe, as he promised he would. Later... 11:41:07 PM    comment []

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