05-26-2004, 03:11 PM
Speaking of Recipes, I just added a new one to the Fish Stew section. I hope you try this Bahamian Stew Fish. It is one of my favorites.
The fishing report for this week: I'm laughing as I write this. The water has finally calmed down and we have been out every day this week. Turbots are everywhere, and an increase of Lane Snappers in the outer shoals. We only caught two Margaret fish over 14 inches, yet many smaller ones. The Hind fish are either very small or very big this week. In total, I believe we have averaged three dozen fish per outing, rather slow for our average. I did start to pull in a fish which suddenly got much lighter in weight by the time it got to the boat as a Barricuda decided he wanted the tail end.
Lost two anchors (Bahamian Anchor = part of wheel) this week. Wife accidently threw one overboard without the rope attached and the seconed one went bye bye when the roap broke. As we were out about a mile, my wife tied an old axe head to the rope. It actually worked as we would drop it into a rocky area on the windward side of a shoal and it would hook-up enough for us to stay put.
As we were running low on weights, we came in so I could cut some more from old diving belt leads. Grabbed another rusted wheel part for anchor and we headed off to the mile marker off the Defense Force. Fished a bit around it, but only caught half dozen very large Red-eyed Johns. These the cat eats boiled as we don't but cat food anymore.
Just checked the gasoline situation and bait to go out this afternoon. 1.6 quarts in the motor and 1 pint in the container, just enough for one trip out. FYI, the gasloine here is currently $3.28 a gallon. There is a Conch Salad stand next to our neighborhood gas station who buys $20 per week in Grunts on Saturday in trade for fuel. Two small frozen Grunts for bait.
Looks there is enough to go out today.
Dave
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The fishing report for this week: I'm laughing as I write this. The water has finally calmed down and we have been out every day this week. Turbots are everywhere, and an increase of Lane Snappers in the outer shoals. We only caught two Margaret fish over 14 inches, yet many smaller ones. The Hind fish are either very small or very big this week. In total, I believe we have averaged three dozen fish per outing, rather slow for our average. I did start to pull in a fish which suddenly got much lighter in weight by the time it got to the boat as a Barricuda decided he wanted the tail end.
Lost two anchors (Bahamian Anchor = part of wheel) this week. Wife accidently threw one overboard without the rope attached and the seconed one went bye bye when the roap broke. As we were out about a mile, my wife tied an old axe head to the rope. It actually worked as we would drop it into a rocky area on the windward side of a shoal and it would hook-up enough for us to stay put.
As we were running low on weights, we came in so I could cut some more from old diving belt leads. Grabbed another rusted wheel part for anchor and we headed off to the mile marker off the Defense Force. Fished a bit around it, but only caught half dozen very large Red-eyed Johns. These the cat eats boiled as we don't but cat food anymore.
Just checked the gasoline situation and bait to go out this afternoon. 1.6 quarts in the motor and 1 pint in the container, just enough for one trip out. FYI, the gasloine here is currently $3.28 a gallon. There is a Conch Salad stand next to our neighborhood gas station who buys $20 per week in Grunts on Saturday in trade for fuel. Two small frozen Grunts for bait.
Looks there is enough to go out today.
Dave
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