Salmon Leather

[user 48679]

I smell a knife sheath cover or a kewl hatband in yer future......

 

[Cubreac]

Here are few wallets I made from wolf fish skin, which I bought from fiskurleather.com. There is a fish tannery in Iceland that he sources the skins from. US Fish & Game regulations make it very expensive to import these things. I thought their only purpose was to roll up on legal fishermen and hunters to ruin their day (LOL). The problem with salmon skin, and other leather from fish with scales, is it is rough and has a "scabby" look to it. Wolffish is a fish without scales, like ling cod. We have a similar species in the Puget Sound, which we call a wolf eel. It is very tough and wears extremely well, but it does require a thin backing.

 

[HSmithTX]

My Wife estimated the size as 18” x 4”, could be more or less. But plenty for some small pouches. Salmon flavored whiskey, can you imagine the hangover from overdosing on that!

How long have you been married to that lovely lady? We need a scaling factor to get an idea what size those skins actually are.........

 

[JEBMs]

I’ve eaten plenty of crisp salmon skin off of the fillets I cook but never heard of tanned.
And salmon whisky seems like a “hold my beer” kinda thing. It’s like the guy talking to the old moonshiner. Moonshiner says “have a drink”, guy says “no thanks “. Moonshiner pulls a gun on him and says “I said have a drink!!!” Guy grabs the jug, takes a drink and gags, chokes, spits and sputters. When he caught his breath he said “that manure is awful!” Moonshiner says “I know, now hold the gun on me and make me take a drink”

 

[beardedhorse]

Tanned fish skins have been used to back sinewed backed bows for waterproofing and camouflage. Had sriracha glazed salmon with home made mango salsa for supper. Never thought of washing it down with smoked salmon flavored whiskey. Whatcha gonna make with them?

 

[rmefbowhunter]

Wonder if that would be considered “baiting” if you were on a Kodiak hunt?

No, it is called a Kamikaze run.

 

[Whitworth]

I've heard of it but have never seen any. Not much help. How long are those pieces? From the small scales it looks like Pink Salmon. There's a micro distillery in Haines, AK that was making salmon flavored whiskey. The only fellow I know that tried it said it took him a week to get the taste out of his system.

Man, I can't even begin to bend my head around the thought of salmon flavored whiskey. Brings to mind the question of why ruin good or even bad whiskey for that matter with any kind of fish?

 

[The Crisco Kid]

Man, I can't even begin to bend my head around the thought of salmon flavored whiskey. Brings to mind the question of why ruin good or even bad whiskey for that matter with any kind of fish?

My thought too. Probably depends on the time of night and when there's nothing else left. But, like they say in Alaska, if it smells like fish, eat it.

 

[waksupi]

Tanned fish skins were common among Pacific Northwest tribes, on up through Alaska. Fairly durable, but I have never handled an example that didn't retain a slight fish smell, especially if it gets wet.

 

[TDM]

Tanned fish skins were common among Pacific Northwest tribes, on up through Alaska. Fairly durable, but I have never handled an example that didn't retain a slight fish smell, especially if it gets wet.

I still don’t have the salmon leather in hand yet, probably head home in a couple of days, then we’ll see. I too am curious about the smell.