The Open Skies Trading Co.

The Open Skies Trading Co. The Open Skies Trading Co. is a lifestyle and apparel brand celebrating the outdoors and our love of

Say hi to the American Mink.They like long walks on the beach, playing in the water and stealing fish from your stringer...
11/22/2021

Say hi to the American Mink.

They like long walks on the beach, playing in the water and stealing fish from your stringer while you catch dinner.

Did you guess what our last post was about?Yep. We're turning people's old beer bottles they left behind in local rivers...
04/29/2021

Did you guess what our last post was about?

Yep. We're turning people's old beer bottles they left behind in local rivers, camp grounds and donated recycling into some sweet, outdoor scented candles. Citronella, Backwoods and Sandalwood scents are on the way soon!

Happy Earth Day y'all!We're not out on the trails cleaning up, but we're still doing something about all that garbage. (...
04/23/2021

Happy Earth Day y'all!

We're not out on the trails cleaning up, but we're still doing something about all that garbage. (We've been collecting.) Can you guess what our newest product we're working on is going to be?

Sometimes nature provides all the art you need. There's no beauty like the Wasatch front during spring. Gotta give our l...
04/12/2021

Sometimes nature provides all the art you need. There's no beauty like the Wasatch front during spring. Gotta give our local trails some love.

Yesteryear's t-shirt films are becoming this year's art prints. Scraping, scratching and tweaking them to reprint on a n...
04/09/2021

Yesteryear's t-shirt films are becoming this year's art prints. Scraping, scratching and tweaking them to reprint on a new medium.

We've got a giant stack of old books and films along with a couple gallons of ink on its way to turning into your newest home decor.

03/29/2021

We're up to new things. Taking your old junk, and turning it into new products.

Beer bottles to candles. Coming soon.

"Oh my god, that's disgusting" says someone I know."Oh... man... you have no idea how good this is", says I.This is base...
02/07/2021

"Oh my god, that's disgusting" says someone I know.

"Oh... man... you have no idea how good this is", says I.

This is based on a recipe I was first introduced to during a mis-spent youth running around Canada and later re-discovered. I was told it's a traditional recipe among the Inupiaq, but I learned it from my old scoutmaster. It's about the only way I know you can make a rainbow trout taste halfway decent.

Salmon Candy:

1 cup brown sugar/maple syrup for marinade
1 cup brown sugar/maple syrup for glaze
1 teapoon salt (more or less to taste. I like it salty.)
3 cups water (2 if using maple syrup)
2-3 good sized trout (rainbow or cutthroat preferred. Browns, tigers and brookies can actually be cooked for an edible non-fishy meal.), 1 kokanee or other salmon, 1 splake or 1 lake trout

Simmer your ingredients together over medium heat. While the salt water and sugar combine into a syrup, prep you fish by filleting them out, de-boning and removing their skins. Cut or break your fish fillets into small pieces about 1-2" across.

Once your syrup has boiled down for about 30 minutes and started to thicken, pull it off the heat and let it begin cooling.

Right before your syrup reaches room temperature, pour it into a flat pan over your fish. It should be warm, but not warm enough to cook the fish. Ideally let it sit in your fridge overnight. The longer it sits, the more it will soak into the fish.

Now, roll your marinaded fish pieces in the brown sugar, or brush your syrup over them. Let them sit long enough for the glaze to harden a bit before putting on additional layers if you want.

Finally, while your last glaze hardens, get that smoker going. The lowest heat you can manage is the best. Apple wood or other sweet woods are best. Smoke your fish for 2-3 hours or longer if you want it drier and more jerky-like.

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The net result is a fatty, sweet and salty, chewy fish jerky that takes a bullet to put a dent in, keeps you filled with energy for hours on the trail and requires zero refrigeration (so long as you're not packing it around in extreme heat.) It's addictive as all hell and you may end up eating the whole batch before you even make it to your camp much less manage to hunt or fish out the weekend.

We got dog toys for days!No. Literally. We've been making dog toys for the last 3 days like some sort of crazy dog-theme...
01/24/2021

We got dog toys for days!

No. Literally. We've been making dog toys for the last 3 days like some sort of crazy dog-themed... something or other. We're not super good at witty banter.

This batch is about to head to their new home with Pet Project LA in... well, Los Angeles. If you're in their neighborhood, go say hi. Maybe pick up a rag-a-bone and show us how your pup is contributing to protecting America's wilderness areas.

https://www.facebook.com/petprojectla/

Hey! Look at that. Somebody ordered themselves swag! Man, are they gonna look snazzy when they put it on. And they're de...
01/16/2021

Hey! Look at that. Somebody ordered themselves swag! Man, are they gonna look snazzy when they put it on. And they're definitely gonna feel good knowing we're donating a buck from it to clean up the environment somewhere.

If it wasn't you, you should get yourself some swag too. We'll even toss in a sweet Buford the bison sticker with your swag. Everyone loves stickers. And bison are pretty rad too.

Pile of junk someone left out in the desert, or next year's vertical garden?This is what the money Open Skies Trading Co...
01/16/2021

Pile of junk someone left out in the desert, or next year's vertical garden?

This is what the money Open Skies Trading Co. brings in helps to accomplish. Taking garbage and turning it into things that benefit the environment.

It's been a heck of a butt-kickin' crazy, wild, what-in-the-heck-just-happened kinda year. So here's a picture of some v...
09/20/2020

It's been a heck of a butt-kickin' crazy, wild, what-in-the-heck-just-happened kinda year. So here's a picture of some very confused lookin' mooses (moos-ie?) by way of apology for not gracing your feed with stuff for a while. We're working on a couple new shirts in the mean time.

Fun fact: Deep in the Utah desert, surrounded by a military base, there's a geothermal lake. It never freezes. And in th...
05/24/2020

Fun fact:

Deep in the Utah desert, surrounded by a military base, there's a geothermal lake. It never freezes. And in that lake, you'll find the only place where tilapia and cichlids live wild in Utah. Years ago, tilapia and cichlids were released into Blue Lake. Today, they're almost the only species of fish left in this salt marsh ecosystem. So we're doing our part this memorial day to catch as many as we can.

Fish tacos are just a bonus.



@ Wendover, Utah

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Eagle Mountain, UT
84005

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Monday 8am - 8pm
Tuesday 8am - 8pm
Wednesday 8am - 8pm
Thursday 8am - 8pm
Friday 8am - 8pm
Saturday 8am - 5pm
Sunday 8am - 5pm

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+15636395206

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