Fishing 2016

[sneakypete]

I never smoked cheese, obviously must be done with little or no heat?

 

[wy-tex]

It's much easier in fall and winter. Just let the heat go out of the smoking chamber and let the coals die down to just enough to make smoke, we use dry pecan wood for smoking. I did put 2 frozen water jugs just under the cheese, but the smoker stayed under 50 degrees while smoking. It is a cheap, older brinkman wood / charcoal fired smoker. We do lots of cheese as the weather cools off. Buy good cheese, it makes a big difference in the taste and texture. Cheap cheese turns out rubbery.

 

[sneakypete]

wy-tex, thanks I have one of those brinkman smokers that I used for smoking salmon and trout.

 

[Prerylyon]

Out of the smoker and made room for 10 lbs of bison jerky. After sunset it cooled off enough to smoke some cheese.View attachment 16794View attachment 16795

OMG that right there is some fine eating!

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[Finsandtines]

Made a day trip for some scallops and ended up with our 10 gallon limit! Good eatin! After all the work cleaning.....


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[sneakypete]

Too bad Bing Crosby isn't around could have had a clam bake

 

[Eberle]

Made a day trip for some scallops and ended up with our 10 gallon limit! Good eatin! After all the work cleaning.....View attachment 16839View attachment 16840


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That looks like fun. How do you get them, dive for them?

 

[Matthoek21]

Good job Dan! That sure is some good eating. My brother used to go to steenhatchee(sp.) to do that. Said it's a lot of fun. The kids love it. They always paid to have em cleaned though. Said it was worth it to have someone that knows what they're doing cause they can just whip through it. How long did that take you? Show us how much 10 gallons of scallops is after cleaned. Congrats again.

 

[Finsandtines]

That looks like fun. How do you get them, dive for them?

We snorkel....anywhere between 4-8 foot of water usually. They lay on the sea grass or bottom and you just dive down and pick em up.

 

[Finsandtines]

Good job Dan! That sure is some good eating. My brother used to go to steenhatchee(sp.) to do that. Said it's a lot of fun. The kids love it. They always paid to have em cleaned though. Said it was worth it to have someone that knows what they're doing cause they can just whip through it. How long did that take you? Show us how much 10 gallons of scallops is after cleaned. Congrats again.

Thanks. We go to steinhatchee too. Our hunting camp is 30 minutes north of there in perry. We got these in homossassa. We got half done in about 45 minutes, the rest are on ice for my father in law to finish today. Will try to get pic of all cleaned together but will be just about 2 pints. The limit is 10 gal or two pints cleaned.

 

[Finsandtines]

Here is 2/3 of them Matt....sandwich bags on left and gallon ziploc on right


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[Matthoek21]

Them some tasty little boogers. You are going to eat like a King! Thanks for showing me how much you get. That's a pretty healthy amount.
I may be headed down to Panama City next week to do some lobstering Wednesday and Thursday. Are you going? Kind of excited about cooking up a whole bunch of lobster. Hopefully we will be successful.

 

[Finsandtines]

Them some tasty little boogers. You are going to eat like a King! Thanks for showing me how much you get. That's a pretty healthy amount.
I may be headed down to Panama City next week to do some lobstering Wednesday and Thursday. Are you going? Kind of excited about cooking up a whole bunch of lobster. Hopefully we will be successful.

Will probably do some lobstering in the keys next month......

 

[Matthoek21]

Creeks and mountain streams in Georgia are getting hot. It is having a major affect on the trout. Two weekends ago I saw probably 15-20 trout floating dead. I still managed to catch a few but have pretty much stopped fishing these stressed areas. Seems the stockers are struggling worse than the natives. I did fish a little mountain stream on Thursday where there were nothing but natives and caught quite a few dinks. They're not much but still fun watching them come easily to a dry fly. Ran into this bad boy hanging over the trail. Thank goodness we didn't stir these boys up.

 

[Matthoek21]

Had my buddy hold the hornets nest just to see if he was man enough...lol

 

[Gr8bawana]

Here's a few fish we caught last week during our family camping trip near Ely NV. The creek next to the campground is full of little fish I thought were Brook Trout. Turns out they are Redband Trout which are native to NV in certain drainages. A creek a few miles away was full of Brown Trout which were very eager to take a grasshopper.
I can't think of a better way to spend time with my son and the family.

 

[Finsandtines]

Had my buddy hold the hornets nest just to see if he was man enough...lolView attachment 16891

Don't stir the hornets nest!

 

[sneakypete]

Surprised he didn't try to put a hook in it and cast it out! Chances missed, Dale Murphy ..

 

[Matthoek21]

Surprised he didn't try to put a hook in it and cast it out! Chances missed, Dale Murphy ..

Good one Pete...good one! Can't believe I didn't think of that. Should of had him pick the nest and air mail it to you. You would have never had to tie another bee pattern again.

 

[ivorytip]

haha you just gave me a fantastic idea!!!!