Smoked Fish

Ingredients

• 10 lbs fairly oily fish fillets, scaled,pin-bones pulled,and rinsed (salmon, tuna, or swordfish, or other oily fish)
• 1 cup kosher salt or 1 cup uniodized table salt (kosher salt works best!)
• 1 cup sugar or 1 cup brown sugar, packed,dissolved in
• 1 quart warm water
• 1/2 ounce coarse fresh ground black pepper
• 3 -4 bay leaves, crushed or finely crumbled,not powdered
• wood chips, of choice soaked in water overnight (alder, apple, cherry, maple, oak; NOT hickory or mesquite)