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Re: Smoked Australia Salmon

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 8:56 pm
by Wolly Bugger
hornet wrote:Wolly, I still haven't used my smoker I purchased a year ago ! I lost the instructions, actually there were none but some instructions were on the box it came in, the amount of wood chips has me stumped, do I put a thin layer right across the pan or just lumped on top of the burners ? mine has 3 metho burners, I'm still waiting on catching some salmon to try it out ! figures...I buy the smoker and haven't caught a salmon since.
Basically it is a bit of trial and error, but I put enough sawdust to cover the base of the smoker. I use methylated spirits as the heat source and I generally fill the burner half full, once that has burnt out, I then turn the fish over and repeat the process.

Mine uses one burner, I have a larger smoker that came with one burner, which is not enough, and later models came with 2 metho burners.

Wood chips if that are being added to the heat source, need to be soaked in water before adding them directly to the coals,heat beads.

Re: Smoked Australia Salmon

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 8:59 pm
by Wolly Bugger
blacklab99 wrote:hey Wolly, What I do, is to smoke 1 at a time. Take the heads off, butterfly them open, skin side down.
You would want it to be smoking for at least an hour plus the way you have them there.
Once the salmon is butterflied open and sitting in the smoker, I sea salt the flesh ( facing up ) then springle lightly
some brown sugar. I smoke it for minmum 30 - 40 minutes. Salmon has to be well smoked ! with the flesh lying open, it insures
it gets fully done. I would never put whole fish in as you have.....
They do not take an hour, but I don't really time it, I go by the look of the fish. I will cut the heads off if they are too large to fit in the smoker.

I found butterflying trout, dried them out too much.

Re: Smoked Australia Salmon

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:00 pm
by Wolly Bugger
4liters wrote:Where do you get the smokers from?
You can make your own, or buy them from most tackle stores. If you have a webber, you can use that as a smoker.

Re: Smoked Australia Salmon

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:02 pm
by 4liters
Cheers, I've been wondering how I can put the sambos to better use than gummy bait.

Re: Smoked Australia Salmon

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:26 pm
by Wolly Bugger
There are two basic smoking techniques, hot and cold.

The cold method, the smoke is allowed to cool before it gets to the meat/fish. This technique it takes a couple of days to smoke the meat/fish.

The hot smoking method, cooks the meat as well as infusing the smoke flavour to the meat/fish.

Re: Smoked Australia Salmon

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:35 pm
by poodoo
4liters wrote:Cheers, I've been wondering how I can put the sambos to better use than gummy bait.
Try them sashimi next time 4liters they are not bad done that way.

Re: Smoked Australia Salmon

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 10:00 pm
by Wolly Bugger
poodoo wrote:
4liters wrote:Cheers, I've been wondering how I can put the sambos to better use than gummy bait.
Try them sashimi next time 4liters they are not bad done that way.
Cheaterparts, also pickles his fish.

Re: Smoked Australia Salmon

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 10:31 pm
by hornet
blacklab99, Wolly and the guy's, thx for the info it helps a lot ! now I'm all fired up to start smoking with confidence, hope I get some salmon soon to try it...

Re: Smoked Australia Salmon

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:13 pm
by Wolly Bugger
I have some well and truly dried apple branches, just need to turn them into sawdust.

I found cooking freshwater crays on the coals of gum trees adds a very nice flavour to them.

Any wood that has been treated can not be used to smoke fish/meat.

Re: Smoked Australia Salmon

Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:57 pm
by Nude up
I cover them in salt for 1 hr to draw all the moisture out of them first then put them in the smoker or put them in a brine solution with chillies etc overnight prior to smoking them