Northwest Fishing Reports

Yes its time for the Spring Lamb again.This weekend in that gorgeous weather I filled the Traeger hopper with Grapewood Pellets and smoked me a boneless leg of Wa. State lamb.I brought it today to work for my employees. I can only eat like 4 oz. per meal. I stuff it with garlic cloves and fresh cut rosemary.Then tie it up and smoked it for 2 hours and cooked for about an hour more.Grapewood is the only way to go for lamb or goat.

Right now QFC has good deals on American leg o lamb.$3.99 a pound .I dont like foreign lamb (mutton) it has a gamier flavor then a good Wa or Or. raised lamb.

What temp would you suggest in the oven? and how long? I cooked lamb once but I pan seared it..deelish.

In the oven I would do it at 350 degrees .Lamb usually isnt eaten rare. Its weird but all my life cooking I dont usually follow the degrees on my smokers. I usually can just tell where I'm at. In the oven 350 is very safe cooking temp.I'll find out for sure but usually I cook till the inner meat is around 150-160 degrees.I'll look it up to be sure.

Awesome, thanks for the info!

When I was a kid the only meat that I wasn't allergic to was sheep. I finally outgrew the allergy when I was 11. To this day I can't gag down mutton in any way, regardless of age of the critter, or method of cooking. To this day if I'm in a restaurant and the waitress/waiter just walks by with a rack of lamb destined for another table, I lose my appetite.

Big Dog W:-$
Could not agree more=d>
My Uncle ran the biggest slaughter house in Grandview for years :colors: one smell of it I am on the run even now:cyclopsan lol There is not a sauce/dip or smoke that could make me consume that without 3 personal fit Flight bags8-[
I will eat Gator :cyclopsan over Mutten/Gutten:chef:

Swede??? You'll grub down Lutefisk in a heartbeat but wont eat lamb? You cupcake!!!! You need to try Rac-bonics 420.I'll teach ya how to make a ewe-turn.Hahahahaha

Lutefisk, pickled herring all that stuff hits the dumbster:-$ and at age 4 and 5 tableside went in my napkin as soon as the looks went away in my shoes or under my shirt to get away an flush!:colors:

Day fresh Kings, Coho, Lings ,flatties, crab, shrimp, steelhead, ribeyes, vegtables, salads, Elk, Moose and a homemade strawberry pie I am good:-$

East over at the family ranch my Uncle ran I heard a baaaahhhhh I went camping fast:cyclopsan :colors:lol and yes pass the cupcakes:-# over those options!

wolverine wrote: When I was a kid the only meat that I wasn't allergic to was sheep. I finally outgrew the allergy when I was 11. To this day I can't gag down mutton in any way, regardless of age of the critter, or method of cooking. To this day if I'm in a restaurant and the waitress/waiter just walks by with a rack of lamb destined for another table, I lose my appetite.

My dad always got a new set of lambs every year and finished them while working his dogs on them then he slaughtered them. I would always be hungry on the days they were having lamb:-& I would stay in my room with the window open all night could not deal with the smell let alone the taste. My now wife's grandfather has a sheep farm here in eastern WY. and they keep giving us lamb#-o My wife sometimes has some while I am at work but we have a freezer full and I DON'T want it My in-laws want me over for lamb on Easter I think I am sick that day:-"

Hahaha Fishalholics. Thats good.I look forward to Easter cuz Lamb goes on sale.I raised hogs for years but I still eat pork.

wolverine wrote: When I was a kid the only meat that I wasn't allergic to was sheep. I finally outgrew the allergy when I was 11. To this day I can't gag down mutton in any way, regardless of age of the critter, or method of cooking. To this day if I'm in a restaurant and the waitress/waiter just walks by with a rack of lamb destined for another table, I lose my appetite.

LOL, I grew up with Mutton. Relatives raised the greasy critters and they gave them away and brought the stinking meat to every church social.

I know that it must be better then I remember, like wolverine, my memories from youth control my current actions.

Now to me there is Mutton and then there is Lamb.Lamb for me is similar to Veal.Its a young lamb that hasnt become greasy and smelly.I dont know the actual age of slaughtering but the lamb I buy is very young and tender. Not to greasy.Now the imported lamb from Safeway or Costco is gross .It does have that gamey flavor which like most of us I detest.Goat is another gamey tasting animal.Its edible and not bad but does require a certain pallette to enjoy it.The ram pictured is a cool pic.Driving the Canyon Road along the Yakima River there are herds of Mountain Goats.They really are fun to watch on the steep rock cliffs.

Hells Canyon Remote Idaho with the girls and yes we filmed and played with the Yakima Crew/herd many times floating and camping and fishing the canyon there is a big Smile#-o face mid drift against the rock wall during the drift:cyclopsan