Taste ~ Quality ~ Packaging ~ Price ~  Availability

These are all important......not just to you, but to US.  People . . . buy . . . .products.  We purchase them, take them home, and eat them....and most of the time forget about them. 

We have a different plan. We have what we think is a unique little story that just might tickle your imagination and make you grin when our package shows up at your place.

It lets you know that we have a ‘history’ of what we are doing. It gave us a smile, looking into the history and finding out just how much of the past fits into our present daily lives.  We thought it would be fun to share with you.

We, Mike and Karen Keating, are the owners of Big Blue Fisheries. Mike’s great, great grandfather on his father’s mothers’ side just happened to be named....no lie....Lou Salmon. As his name would imply, Lou loved to fish and did so often near the Hudson River community in which he lived.  See his picture above.

Lou actually fished and provided for ‘Gentlemen’s’ Clubs of NYC. He fished in Conklinville, NY. Even before this, Lou's son Thomas Salmion did the same......going back to the 1870’s. He used an Adirondack guide boat (which we will always proudly have in the family) to hunt and provide fish and game for various clubs and saloons. Now, somewhere down the road, the great grandchildren of these fishermen/hunters felt the stirring of the salmon in their blood and decided to build their own “smoker” at the ripe age of about 10.