re: #611 pre-Boomer Marine brat

You used a soldering iron for the heat source?

Yes it works very well. I didn’t use the soup can method. I just put the tip of the soldering iron on a block of pear wood at the bottom of my bbq. I toyed around with different soldering irons. Originally I thought my light weaker iron wasn’t making enough smoke but it doesn’t take a whole lot of constant smoke because the fish is smoked for 12 hours. A light haze of smoke works fine.