This was excellent. I brined a side of salmon for about 14 hours. Used the same salt/water ratio as suggested. I did add 1/8 c of soy, some chachere's seasoning, dill weed and pepper to the mix though and a little lemon juice. I couldnt find Alder wood so I used a Cedar Plank instead. Smoked it for about 3 hours. It weighed around 1.5 lbs. It was GREAT! That is a perfect piece of fish! My wife HATES salmon and even she liked it. My whole family really liked this recipe. Thanks Ron. This is the best! :)

This is the best I've tasted in years. Seriously thanks, Jimmy4216.

Best Salmon I've ever had. Before today I would say that I didn't like salmon. Today was the turning point. I like salmon, it tastes wonderful...if done right. This recipes doesn't need modification, but I did do a few things different. I think the impact was minimal: Used the basic brine in the footnote, with a little modification: Water, soy sauce, oregano, garlic powder, onion powder, brown sugar (extra), normal iodized salt. At the end I added orange juice and lemon pepper. Soaked fish overnight and followed the recipe. Used double barrel charcoal pit with charcoal and wood chunks in small barrel and fish in big barrel. Replenished charcoal and wood when it got low. ~3 hours cooked, you could probably give or take an hour with no harm if smoking and not broiling. It was wonderful. Next time I'd like to try something exotic. I'd like to use more juices in my brine and layer the fish with fruit. Mandarine oranges, pineapple.... I think that might be really good. Then again, it came out great and I'd hate to mess up a wonderful recipe. This recipe is a keeper and will be used very very often in this house. You can't beat the health benefits of salmon with this wonderful taste.

Yeah I smoke salmon!!! Ha ha ha ha!!! No sorry for this but this recipe was GREAT YEAH I SAID GREAT, VERY GREAT!!! MATT DAMON (FROM DURKADURKASTAN!!!)

This is an awesome way to make salmon! Be sure to make the brine. I soaked my plank in water with lemon, orange and tangerines and it was the best! The butcher told me to also soak in onion and garlic for another flavor.

We really enjoyed this. I used a little less water and replaced it with brandy and also added a little garlic powder to the brown sugar mixture.

This was the best fish recipe i have ever tasted. The plank gave the fish so much flavor. I cooked mine a little longer, until it was mostly white...The whole family loved this recpe

There are very few things in life that can make fresh salmon taste better, however smokin' ron's recipe for smoked salmon does just that.