The Most Basic Essential Foods

[starfish62]

Cedar Plugs and the old red head/white body diving plug work great as "grocery getters." The problem we had was that with only 2 people on boat it's kind of a sin to kill a 30-lb tuna, cause there's just no way in hell you're gonna be able to eat it all, even with refrigeration.

[JanetGroene]

Someone mentioned fishing lures for the open sea. We are not anglers nor sportsmen. For us it's about meat fishing, not playing with the creature for hours. We bought a lure, lost it to a barracuda the first day out, realized it had cost three times more than a can of tuna. We got a meat hook, 80-pound test line and baited hooks with strips of yellow cloth torn from an old sheet or with clear plastic tubes cut in strips. Tied it to a stanchion. Drove the mahi-mahi crazy, cost nothing, ate well, canned the leftovers.

[hellosailor]

"canned the leftovers. "
Pressure cooker & ball jars? How long do you have to cook fish when you "can" it, and does it stay firm rather than fall apart? In sauce or its own broth?

[zeehag]

oooohhh---learn me goood so i can keep fishing behind my sailboat--i used lures i crearted out of cheep stuff from the sale bin at bluewater in psj--lol-- they looked like flying fish when i was done-- white with a blue stripe skirts with a white doa under and a 3/8 oz jig head for weight...., and were bitten by tuna, dorado, king, spanish--- i ate well from them. when they were stolen by something too large--i laughed and made another and kept on-- i lost 4 pricey lures and leaders to baracuda or something tooothy in sea-- sea life has teeth. lots of them.

[boatman61]

After Eight Mints.....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[MarkJ]

Originally Posted by hellosailor

"canned the leftovers. "
Pressure cooker & ball jars?

Yes, Janet, thats a bit far fetched to be canning at sea.

I find fishing a damn waste of fish. Without a freezer the 2 of us could never eat a whole palagic fish.

Last one we caught was in the Med a beautiful, endangered, blue fin tuna.
Killed the poor bastard and ate about 1/8th of it.

I don't fish no more.

The rapists of the oceans - the tuna fishermen - at least serve it up in meal size cans.

[hellosailor]

" i lost 4 pricey lures and leaders to baracuda or something tooothy in sea-- sea life has teeth. lots of them. "
You aren't using steel leader wire, are you? Fiber is great for lines, but steel leaders are how you make it harder for the fish to take your lures home.

Mark, could you salt it and dry it to put up the fish? Or pickle it, like herring and ceviche?

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by MarkJ

Last one we caught was in the Med a beautiful, endangered, blue fin tuna.
Killed the poor bastard and ate about 1/8th of it.

I don't fish no more.

The rapists of the oceans - the tuna fishermen - at least serve it up in meal size cans.

Good man....

[w1651]

Originally Posted by hellosailor

" i lost 4 pricey lures and leaders to baracuda or something tooothy in sea-- sea life has teeth. lots of them. "
You aren't using steel leader wire, are you? Fiber is great for lines, but steel leaders are how you make it harder for the fish to take your lures home.

Mark, could you salt it and dry it to put up the fish? Or pickle it, like herring and ceviche?

That's what I was thinking. Mason jars and vinegar or lemon lime juice.

[w1651]

Originally Posted by zeehag

oooohhh---learn me goood so i can keep fishing behind my sailboat--i used lures i crearted out of cheep stuff from the sale bin at bluewater in psj--lol-- they looked like flying fish when i was done-- white with a blue stripe skirts with a white doa under and a 3/8 oz jig head for weight...., and were bitten by tuna, dorado, king, spanish--- i ate well from them. when they were stolen by something too large--i laughed and made another and kept on-- i lost 4 pricey lures and leaders to baracuda or something tooothy in sea-- sea life has teeth. lots of them.

Zee Hag you should write a book. How to make a lure on a dollar a day...

So I make a lure out of dam near anything?

[MarkJ]

Originally Posted by hellosailor

Mark, could you salt it and dry it to put up the fish? Or pickle it, like herring and ceviche?

I prefer it as Caviar....

[conachair]

Originally Posted by hellosailor

"canned the leftovers. "
Pressure cooker & ball jars? How long do you have to cook fish when you "can" it, and does it stay firm rather than fall apart? In sauce or its own broth?

I canned some tuna coming back across to europe last summer. From memory it was already cooked so I think it was 30 mins in pressure cooker covered in extra virgin olive oil with some garlic and kaffir lime leaves. Open it a few weeks ago, absolutely delicious, still firm but not dry like the tinned stuff. Only had one bottle with the little dimple on the sealed lid or would have canned much more. Even fresh tuna looses it's charm when you are eating about a kilo a day for half a week.

[Pete7]

Originally Posted by Tom and Maje

Yum. I am not from the south but I love grits. Shrimp and cheese grits. Grits with scrambled eggs. Yum. Unfortunately, my husband does not like them. Maje

Go on give us a clue, what are "grits" because in my country it sounds like something you put on the garden path when its snowing or covered in ice

Pete

[w1651]

Originally Posted by Pete7

Go on give us a clue, what are "grits" because in my country it sounds like something you put on the garden path when its snowing or covered in ice

Pete

You probably call it Pallenta

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by Pete7

Go on give us a clue, what are "grits" because in my country it sounds like something you put on the garden path when its snowing or covered in ice

Pete

LOL..... first time I saw it (Grits) was in New Bern, NC at a breakfast bar...
Lady asked me what I wanted so I said... "Bacon, sausage, egg, potato's and mushrooms.." she then asked if I'd like 'Grits and Biscuits'... I asked what grits were and she went away and came back with what looked like a small bowl of Baby Puke.... I passed on the 'Puke'.... but went with the Biscuits which are like light fluffy Scones...
Another thing... their sausage are mini burgers... if you want proper sausages you gotta ask for 'Links'.....