DonO, I used to get my oysters by the tow sack full. Yep, when Jody and
I lived in Panama City, Fla, one of my Cub Masters ran an oyster boat.
He'd call me after a particularly good run, sometimes around 2 a.m. and
tell me if I wanted some fresh oysters, to meet him at his dock. When
I got there he always had a tow sack full for me. For the unitiated, a
tow sack is a burlap bag, same kind as they used to use for potatoes.
The bag would have upwards of 30 dozen fresh oysters in it. All I had
to do was keep them wet and cool. The oysters would last a couple
weeks with no problem. My neighbor and a couple of my other good
friends spent many a Sunday afternoon in our Florida Room eating raw
oysters and watching the NFL game. We shucked them ourselves with our
oyster knives, (I still have mine), and ate them right off the half
shell, didn't even bother washing them, along with some good strong
horse radish / seafood sauce, prepared by Jody, and a few saltines along
the way. And, to top it off, we'd always have a bunch of Bud iced down
to wash them down with. BOY, I MISS THOSE DAYS! Also had a
Scoutmaster who was a Shrimp Captain - Same story. In the 4 years we
lived in PC, I never bought any raw oysters or shrimp. Side note; The
first time I ate raw oysters, I polished off 6 dozen and have been
hooked on them ever since.
Before I forget, I always entered the oyster eating contest in
Appalachicola, FL. Never won, but got lots of free oysters. The record
back then was 36 dozen. The best I ever did was 18 dozen, and we're not
talking about teeny weeny oysters like you get at the grocery nowadays.
The TV people interviewed the guy who polished off the 36 dozen, asking
him if he was going to rest when he got home. He laughed and said,
"yeah a little, then I'll probably have some more oysters."
Me - I went home, layed down on the couch and the danged oysters ran out
of my mouth. LOL
JIMMY D
DonO wrote:
You may be right, but this stuff looks sort of like a Sargasso weed
(Sargasso Sea), but it is in the Sea of Cortez and they call it 'Sargasso'.
It floats in rafts and drifts with the curents.
90lbs is big for a white marlin. Good going.
No kind of sport fishing is 'good' for the fish. (Kill-'n-eat is even more
harmful.) Best you can do is the least amount of harm, or take underwater
photos. :o)
I'll have 6 dozen oysters on the half-shell, chilled, with coctail sauce,
please.
DonO
----- Original Message -----
From: David Murphy
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 11:23 AM
Subject: [VFB] Baja...concern, bait, shell
DonO,
Hold on inventer of the fly! Sargasso is Atlantic-side and you were
Pacific. ;-)))
I used to do quite of bit of bill fishing ect in the deep-blue. Caught a
white marlin over 90lbs between St. Thomas and St. Johns some years back,
tagged it, and got a mention in the IFFA report. Seems somebody caught the
same fish of the coast of Africa.
What scares me is the ballyhoo or bait fishing that seems to kill a lot of
prime billfish (nothing like a sailfish with its gut turned inside out to
get you out of bait fishing), pollution that is destroying the coral, and
long-lining which takes turtles and fish not meant to be caught. Babble....
Anyway, it is evident that flyfishing is the only way to fish for fun while
those who fish with bait are okay by me if they are eating the fish.
Thoughts?
BTW, there is a huge discussion on menhadden limits and oysters in the
Chesapeake Bay right now. Menh are the food of gamefish (blues & stripers)
here and oysters filter the water. Anyone want to discuss?
Murf
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From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [VFB] Baja Report
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:48:40 -0600
We had a great time in Baja this year. The fishing was 'off', and towards
the end of the dorado season, but we still got into a school of smaller
ones, in the 3lb to 10lb class- great fun on 9wt. or less. It was fast and
furious top-water flycasting, and awesome-hair sardines were the ticket. A
combination strip and drag was the only way to entice a strike,
The water chopped up for a
couple of days, which was hard on my back, but otherwise the weather and
seas cooperated.
Just too few fish (although
we did catch the 25 or so small ones BTB, and the tuna). Also, we couldn't
find any Sargasso-weed, a favorite haunt of dorado. My favorite method is
casting poppers along the edges of the Sargasso rafts. One of the reasons
a local American gave us for the 'poor' fishing is that the Pacific water
was warmer this year than the Sea of Cortez water, so the fish didn't come
in to the gulf in anywhere near the numbers as previous years.
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