This time of year I start to get the itch! (Please share some Q-view!)

[wes w]

Anytime!  We are in for Winter Weather which means ICE!  Love looking at the outdoors and such with this thread...and warmer days.  We have had over 6 inches of rain here in the past few days.  Who ever pissed off Mother Nature...needs to apologize! 

I've gotta try the strawberries!   If I'm doing an all day smoke  I really struggle to wait till 1200.  Now I can just eat strawberries and not feel like guilty about drinking before lunch!   :-)

We have had 5in of rain here.  There saying a couple more before tomorrow.......then 4 to 8 in. of snow.   

Wes

 

[dirtsailor2003]

I did a post on the mud crab . Interesting dish in the sense that people adapted it from Singapore chilli crab. Now done by any fisherman in mud crab territory. They are expensive to buy down south ,flown in from tropical north. I did a version with dungess? crab on Vancouver Island once.

If you want the 100% best version let me know I will send it to you.Its by a chef not me.I had to adapt in fishing camp  didnt have all the makings but we were getting 12-16 crabs like this every day.

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• moikel
• Jan 16, 2013

Yeah I bet it was Dungeness! You used. We get those by the laundry basket here! I'd love the recipe. PM it please!

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• dirtsailor2003
• Jan 15, 2013

 

[moikel]

Correct spelling must have been stored in brain cell below red wine high tide mark

.I saw those crab in baskets they were very tasty when I was over in that neck of the woods.

I will get full recipe to you then you can adapt it to what you have available to you.I am just back at work in big city not running on all cylinders yet .Give me a day or 2.MICK

 

[moikel]

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• moikel
• Jan 16, 2013

This guy needs help with a smoker build! Having trouble getting wild boar into the Weber

.Yes its real not a touched up photo it was on the cover of pig hunting mag.Bacon Busters with verification. The location was a secret because the farmer didnt want every lunatic with a 308 landing on his doorstep looking for its big or little brother. Background suggests interior & not far north. Gotta be 10 foot nose to tail!

 

[wes w]

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• moikel
• Jan 16, 2013

This guy needs help with a smoker build! Having trouble getting wild boar into the Weber

.Yes its real not a touched up photo it was on the cover of pig hunting mag.Bacon Busters with verification. The location was a secret because the farmer didnt want every lunatic with a 308 landing on his doorstep looking for its big or little brother. Background suggests interior & not far north. Gotta be 10 foot nose to tail!

Dang, that's freaking awesome!

 

[dirtsailor2003]

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• moikel
• Jan 16, 2013

This guy needs help with a smoker build! Having trouble getting wild boar into the Weber

.Yes its real not a touched up photo it was on the cover of pig hunting mag.Bacon Busters with verification. The location was a secret because the farmer didnt want every lunatic with a 308 landing on his doorstep looking for its big or little brother. Background suggests interior & not far north. Gotta be 10 foot nose to tail!

Ha!!! You need a smoke shed for that!

 

[twigertwig]

Holy bacon!

 

[dirtsailor2003]

Two years ago I helped my uncle bring his new Charter fishing boat up to Depoe Bay Oregon from California. One of our stops put us in Moro Bay California. There was a boat unloading this fine cacth of Hagfish. AKA Slime Eel.. Not sure how to smoke this up but I'm sure Mick has some ideas!!!

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• dirtsailor2003
• Jan 16, 2013

That's not water oozing out of the catch bag!

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• dirtsailor2003
• Jan 16, 2013

They put them into a tote.

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• dirtsailor2003
• Jan 16, 2013

And this guys job is de-slime them!

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• dirtsailor2003
• Jan 16, 2013

Moro Rock in the background, my uncles boat far left.

This was a day prior to the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. We were in Half Moon Bay California, when it happened. At about Midnight all of our cell phones started going off from relatives, friends, asking if we had heard about the impending Tsunami. The port officials arrived 30 minutes later and told us either to evacuate by sea or head for high ground. So out to sea we went. We were 20 miles off  San Fransisco when the first waves hit Cali. We felt or saw anything until we tied up at Fort Brag CA around 4pm. All night the water rushed in and out of the Noyo river, sounded like going through rapids in a jet boat on the river!

 

[thoseguys26]

That's HUGE! What kind of rifle was it shot with? Or did you use a cannon?!

Great time of year!  Ice fishing, Charcuterie in my cold garage, good seafood & a freezer full of mule deer & elk!

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• thoseguys26
• Jan 16, 2013

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• thoseguys26
• Jan 16, 2013

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• thoseguys26
• Jan 16, 2013

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• Jan 16, 2013

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• thoseguys26
• Jan 16, 2013

 

[thoseguys26]

Whoa...those slime eels are bizarre!

 

[moikel]

Whoa...those slime eels are bizarre!

Unknown here but I do like smoked eel. The details of that monster boar were kept very light. The farmer didnt release photo until months after he shot it & unless you knew his face not much to go on except its that red dirt country,low scrub that indicates inland but thats not narrowing things down much in a country this size! We have no native mammal carnivores bigger than the dingo, no bears,mountain lions etc.So wild pigs just keep growing until a good old boy surprises them.Lucky he had a crane on his truck! There were a lot of questions asked when it was published but its a legit deal I have the magazine somewhere.

 

[dirtsailor2003]

"Unknown here but I do like smoked eel."

They were used in the 80's for the skin "eel skin". Now they are a popular food item in Korea... Nothing like a bowl of snot for dinner!

 

[moikel]

I like eel but various travel companions through life not so keen. I have eaten it fresh in France,smoked here & in seafood mix.Cant say that snot eel will get over its image problem in a hurry.

 

[dirtsailor2003]

I like eel but various travel companions through life not so keen. I have eaten it fresh in France,smoked here & in seafood mix.Cant say that snot eel will get over its image problem in a hurry.

Mixed with brains and other parts, might be Okay??

Hope to someday vacation near your fish camp so I can sample some of your outside the box meals!

 

[toby bryant]

After a good morning in the duck blind with man's best friend

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• toby bryant
• Jan 11, 2013

A toothy critter, caught while trolling for walleye

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• toby bryant
• Jan 16, 2013

My Mom's cabin in the Ozarks near Greers Ferry Lake

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• toby bryant
• Jan 16, 2013

 

[moikel]

I wish that was my personal fish camp!Its a guided operation in tribal country in the the far tropical north. I got let loose in the kitchen after a negotiated truce with camp cook. I said "I am just going to do a couple of things for the boys in your kitchen I wont make a mess"She said"Thats what the last SOB said before I f### shot him & fed him to the crocodiles"

I did chilli mud crab 3 nights, had my  home made curry paste with me so fish curry & an Italian fish stew another night.Huge fun for me to cook for 11 with just out of the water produce. Its the tropics think Florida or Cuba even for climate. Not a cheap holiday but some of the best tropical sports fishing in this country.I try to go each year around my birthday. October.

I live in Sydney the biggest city we have,come here  I can feed you all sorts of stuff. Brains coming soon.

 

[kathrynn]

Eel = snakes! YUCK!

 

[dirtsailor2003]

That's HUGE! What kind of rifle was it shot with? Or did you use a cannon?!

Great time of year!  Ice fishing, Charcuterie in my cold garage, good seafood & a freezer full of mule deer & elk!

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• thoseguys26
• Jan 16, 2013

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• thoseguys26
• Jan 16, 2013

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• thoseguys26
• Jan 16, 2013

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• thoseguys26
• Jan 16, 2013

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• thoseguys26
• Jan 16, 2013

YUMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!  What's the Shrimp recipe???

 

[smoking b]

Eel = snakes! YUCK!

Rattlesnake is really good! I bet you would like it if you gave it a try. 

   Unless you dislike the whole concept of snakes in general. If so please disregard statement #2 & I will duck! 

 

[dirtsailor2003]

Rattlesnake is really good! I bet you would like it if you gave it a try. 

   Unless you dislike the whole concept of snakes in general. If so please disregard statement #2 & I will duck! 

The only good snake is a dead snake!!!