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Article: Walleye on a Stick: A taste of the state fair in your own kitchen.(Minnesota State Fair)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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Byline: Jonathan Miles
Fifteen years ago, a pair of anglers hatched an idea that could only be called genius. Bill Davis, a Bismarck, North Dakota, financial consultant, and his friend Paul Hansen had been scheming to open a walleye booth at the Minnesota State Fair--since the walleye, for which the two men had been fishing for years on any number of Minnesota's 10,000 lakes, was the official state fish and tasted like a dream, to boot. "We tried everything," he says. "For a long time we played with beer batters, but they're a bit of a mess. You need to have really flat beer or that fizz will explode once it hits the oil. We worked on recipes until the day before ...