COOKING WALLEYE: Starting Friday, outdoor enthusiasts will flock the area to participate in the Cabela’s Masters Walleye Circuit fishing tournament on the Allegheny Reservoir.
What we want to know today from all of you fishermen is what happens once you bring your prize catches into your kitchen? We want to hear your favorite walleye recipes.
We have a friend who batters his freshly caught walleye — a simple, homemade batter is best, he says — and fries them in oil. He serves his fish with tarter sauce. Simple. With such a delicious fish, it doesn’t take much to make them good.
How do readers cook their fish? Any tips for preparing them? What’s the best way to get all those little bones out?
What side dishes do you serve? We’re just starting to see some homegrown produce hit the shelves.
CAUGHT ON FILM: We were glad to see a couple of photographs from our own wilderness area made it into the pages of the July/August 2014 issue of “Pennsylvania Magazine.”
First, when you open the front cover, a sprawling two-page spread of the yellow-orange sun dipping behind a hill while elk graze on the grass in the valley. The right side of the photo serves as a backdrop for the issue’s contents page.
The magazine reads, “Willard Hill of Needmore captured the sun setting over Porcupine Run/Winslow Hill Viewing area, which is part of State Game Lands 311 in Elk County.”
The second photo appeared as an honorable mention in the magazine’s 2014 photo contest of favorite sites and places by readers.
The photo, the magazine states, was taken at “Cherry Springs State Park near Galeton, Potter County,” which “offers one of the darkest skies in the Northeast. Jiang Ming of State College took this long exposure of the sky and observatories at the site.”
The long exposure photo certainly offers a unique view of heavenly bodies not normally visible with the eye.