Mmmmm.... Lox.
Mmmmm.... Lox.
Get it into the smoker! Mmmmmmmm
Probably hunted seals, lol!
Oh, man! I’ll need a larger smoker.
Friends of ours in Mexico used our small sailboat and our tackle to haul in a five foot barracuda. She (she had roe which our friend scooped out and ate) didn’t try to swallow the lure but struck at it and was hooked through the gill. They hauled it up into the boat which was only 11 feet long and had the two full sized men in it plus having to deal with sail etc. We tried to repeat the event multiple times but failed because the fish would simply bite through the leader. The tackle was a guitar string leader and a piece of white plastic. I am not making this up. We were camping on a beach in Yucatan in the early 70s. No tourists then.
Here, too. Like braided cable. And I’ll have to get a smoking plank from the lumber yard for that bruiser.
I developed a theory (actually less than a theory, more than a random thought) that the reason most animals are so much smaller physically now than in the past has to do with the quantity of biomass (ie. carbon) available and distributed around the planet. It is less now than it was. How do we know this? Coal, peat, oil all lock huge quantities away from use by life.
By digging all that stuff up and putting it back in the biosphere (by burning it) we are simply recycling the carbon to where it belongs.
If we invented a “clean” inexhaustible power source tomorrow, the environmentally responsible thing to do would be to dig up all that coal, etc. and burn it anyway. Leave it to the enviros to ALWAYS take the side of sterility and death.
That’s some dangerous sushi.
I’m going to need extra wasabi and a bucket of soy sauce.
We're gonna need a bigger cedar plank...
Here in the Pacific Northwest, you can see on almost every river, the pilings of the old salmon loading docs and canneries.
If you search for “old salmon catches” on Google or whatever you will see pics of boats LOADED TO THE GILLS full of five and almost six footers.
Plus, I have heard that the old fish weren’t like two or three year fish - they were six and seven year, even longer fish.