daugen
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Mostly-are those going to be used for food or fertilizer?
Ok, time for a boating and fishing story, told this a number of years back.
On the topic of carp...
Wife and I living the dream on my 46 Bertram in a nice marina in N. Miami just off the Intracoastal.
The Intracoastal Canal/ICW there is like a watery street in between sky scrapers. Gazillion dollar homes line the ICW,
marvelous for looking at in the rubber dinghy we carried on our larger boat. It was a cheap little dinghy but worked fine until I
wrecked it dragging it over coral in the Abacos. But this happened when it was brand new and had its high quality Tohatsu
3.5hp outboard on the back. So we leave the Turnberry Isle marina in Aventura and go out into the waterway/street where there's lots of cross traffic
and every kind of boat going by, including very large yachts. Might has right and have to be very careful with small dinghy.
I have little experience fishing and it really isn't my thing, though catch and release seems like a great idea.
The problem is/was that I had no idea how to identify the fish even with my handy dandy laminated full color fish guide.
I mean if it looks like a normal fish you eat it, right?
My wife wants to drag a lure for fun, so we put a bobber out the back, got over to the side of the waterway, turned off the motor and just sat there ourselves,
lightly bobbing in the wakes of the passing boats. A constant boat show in front of us.
All of a sudden I hear the reel engage and I grabbed onto the rod. Whoa.
Forget trying to reel it in, it was dragging me, the rod, and the dinghy over towards deeper water in the middle of the channel.
Which surely was not where I wanted to be with that 8 foot rubber boat. As disaster scenarios flashed by my eyes I lunged for the outboard after handing the pole to my
wife, and thank goodness that reliable little Tohatsu fired right up and then I dragged the fish back over to the side. With wide eyes at the big boats going by, who I'm sure thought I was some
fool boating where I shouldn't have been. And let my wife reel it in and I netted it. She was the nurse, I let her do the hook...
Nice looking 24" fish, had no idea what it was.
We put the fish filets on the barbecue and immediately I was hit with an unpleasant smell that did not bode well for dinner.
But I cooked it anyway and neither one of us could eat two bites of it. Strong and just plain awful.
Turns out it was some type of carp used down there only for bait fish since no one, including the poor, eats it.
But we did....sigh.
I think the Asian carp are eaten as regular fish overseas but maybe they make kimche or something equally horrible
tasting out of it.
So now we electrocute them. Must be hard on the fish already there.
Ok, time for a boating and fishing story, told this a number of years back.
On the topic of carp...
Wife and I living the dream on my 46 Bertram in a nice marina in N. Miami just off the Intracoastal.
The Intracoastal Canal/ICW there is like a watery street in between sky scrapers. Gazillion dollar homes line the ICW,
marvelous for looking at in the rubber dinghy we carried on our larger boat. It was a cheap little dinghy but worked fine until I
wrecked it dragging it over coral in the Abacos. But this happened when it was brand new and had its high quality Tohatsu
3.5hp outboard on the back. So we leave the Turnberry Isle marina in Aventura and go out into the waterway/street where there's lots of cross traffic
and every kind of boat going by, including very large yachts. Might has right and have to be very careful with small dinghy.
I have little experience fishing and it really isn't my thing, though catch and release seems like a great idea.
The problem is/was that I had no idea how to identify the fish even with my handy dandy laminated full color fish guide.
I mean if it looks like a normal fish you eat it, right?
My wife wants to drag a lure for fun, so we put a bobber out the back, got over to the side of the waterway, turned off the motor and just sat there ourselves,
lightly bobbing in the wakes of the passing boats. A constant boat show in front of us.
All of a sudden I hear the reel engage and I grabbed onto the rod. Whoa.
Forget trying to reel it in, it was dragging me, the rod, and the dinghy over towards deeper water in the middle of the channel.
Which surely was not where I wanted to be with that 8 foot rubber boat. As disaster scenarios flashed by my eyes I lunged for the outboard after handing the pole to my
wife, and thank goodness that reliable little Tohatsu fired right up and then I dragged the fish back over to the side. With wide eyes at the big boats going by, who I'm sure thought I was some
fool boating where I shouldn't have been. And let my wife reel it in and I netted it. She was the nurse, I let her do the hook...
Nice looking 24" fish, had no idea what it was.
We put the fish filets on the barbecue and immediately I was hit with an unpleasant smell that did not bode well for dinner.
But I cooked it anyway and neither one of us could eat two bites of it. Strong and just plain awful.
Turns out it was some type of carp used down there only for bait fish since no one, including the poor, eats it.
But we did....sigh.
I think the Asian carp are eaten as regular fish overseas but maybe they make kimche or something equally horrible
tasting out of it.
So now we electrocute them. Must be hard on the fish already there.
