Fishing for 'sewer salmon' in the L.A. River and cooking (yes, cooking) it with a recipe from Night + Market's Kris Yenbamroong.
At 6 a.m. on a recent Saturday, I donned a borrowed pair of waders with a hole just above the butt, wrestled some waterproof boots over my feet and stepped into the muck of a particularly deep patch of the Los Angeles River., the common carp, a.k.a. sewer salmon, mud marlin, pond pig, river rabbit, dumpster dolphin, ghetto grouper and septic steelie.
Recently, Jubilado graduated from the standard fly reel to the even more purist tenkara method, which uses a line, a rod and a fly — but no reel. With the number of hours he's logged out there, Jubilado has seen the best and the worst our river has to offer. Homeless people are forced by their circumstances to be resourceful in ways that more secure Angelenos are not. Some fish the river for more than sport."I know they're eating [the carp]. I also know that they are eating the ducks," says Jubilado, who has found butchered waterfowl on the river's edge."We're talking about ducks that are intact, just missing the breast. Somebody knew what they were doing when they breasted these.
From her perspective, returning native species such as rainbow trout and chinook salmon, neither of which survived the concretization of the river more than 80 years ago, while removing as many of the invasive carp as possible, would be a major step in fixing the ailing river."I would love for the fisherpeople to get all that carp out of the river," she said, laughing.
Before our meal, I asked Sabrina Drill, an expert in urban ecology and aquatic invasive species, if we were idiots for doing this.
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