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What a great idea! A pizza place around here should start doing this. But make sure you take it and put it in the garbage or recycle when you're done!

yeah, it is pretty crazy how we often fail to notice the value of things for far too long. I've been reading some of the stuff from the early 1800s as well, they were called "doree" and in some old fishing records they never distinguished between them and suckers. Either discarded, given away, or fed to the dogs. Even modern day we still regard suckers as trash fish. Lake Sturgeon prior to 1850 were considered a nuisance.They would destroy nets when they got entangled, so people typically didn't like them, although they did use them for food, fuel, and the stomache lining (isinglass) for a number of things. Now you aren't even allowed to fish for them here, because they were so valuable, we almost wiped them out.

Rodger. For yer shooting needs you will have to order the "Bigg bullseye box".

Here are a couple of choice quotes about walleye from the sportfishing writers of the 19th Century: It's play is weak and dull, and as it is taken with strong tackle, its capture requires neither the skill nor experience that lend the principal charm to angling; and by comparison with sea-fish, its flavor is coarse. - Roosevelt, 1865 ...and this one, about a fishing trip to St. Ignace Island in Nipigon Bay.... No one bothers catching these (walleye) as the surrounding waters yield an enormous supply of choicer fish among which are said to be ten varieties of the salmon family; besides the whitefish, some of which attain to seventeen pounds in weight! - Thomson, 1877

Not to mention the fact that today's trash is tomorrow's treasure...less than a hundred years ago no self-respecting sportsman would waste his time with walleye - and when they did catch them, they killed them, figuring that they ate brook trout. Once upon a time the government had a targeted culling program for walleye, with the logic that they ate young whitefish, which was the backbone of the commercial fishery. Walleye were nothing more than a coarse fish.

Well I didn't make it down to current river today because I decided to take my niece to the mountdale boat launch. It was a proud moment when she caught and reeled in her first fish all by herself and yes I got out fished by a 3 year old. She ended up landing 2 perch. The best part was she wanted to let them go to grow bigger. Oh yeah that's my brand new rod and reel for specks. She caught the first fish with it too