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Another Big Mahi Mahi Caught While Cruising
On May 18, 7:30*am, Wayne.B wrote:
We caught this one on Sunday about 20 miles off the west coast of Puerto Rico. * It was not quite as big as the one in January but still very good sized and great eating. * Length was 54 inches, weight about 35 pounds. *It took almost 30 minutes to get him in the boat, a very tough, feisty fish. http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/4...iwestofpue.jpg http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/4...iwestofpue.jpg Nice Catch Wayne. Any Tuna yet? Joe |
Another Big Mahi Mahi Caught While Cruising
Flying Pig wrote:
"Larry" wrote in message ... Learn to use an electric knife and your yield will be higher! Why electric yielding more? I get right next to the bone with no trouble. As a guy who used to sell cutlery, I know what a sharp knife can do. I've taken to stropping (effectively) mine on a buffer wheel. Even my razor knives revived! L8R Skip, lusting after Mahi, but striking out on all but Barracuda lately Get one, Skip. Good fish... -- Richard Lamb |
Another Big Mahi Mahi Caught While Cruising
"cavelamb" wrote in message
m... Skip, lusting after Mahi, but striking out on all but Barracuda lately Get one, Skip. Good fish... -- Richard Lamb Hi, Richard, I know about Mahi being good fish (presume that's what you meant). We've been fortunate to catch quite a few - including a 44" one last year, and, in one hour period, also last year, three in a row (much smaller) - but none recently. If you mean the Barracuda, we do keep and relish the 30" ones. Like them better than Mahi, in fact. L8R Skip -- Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts." (Richard Bach, in Illusions - The Reluctant Messiah) |
Another Big Mahi Mahi Caught While Cruising
On Wed, 19 May 2010 08:18:09 -0700 (PDT), Joe
wrote: On May 18, 7:30*am, Wayne.B wrote: We caught this one on Sunday about 20 miles off the west coast of Puerto Rico. * It was not quite as big as the one in January but still very good sized and great eating. * Length was 54 inches, weight about 35 pounds. *It took almost 30 minutes to get him in the boat, a very tough, feisty fish. http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/4...iwestofpue.jpg http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/4...iwestofpue.jpg Nice Catch Wayne. Thanks. We had some for dinner tonight, really delicious. Any Tuna yet? Unfortunately not, at least not in the boat, or where we could identify them. We had a couple of big hits several months ago, one that spooled me totally out before I could get it under control, and another that broke off a 100 lb leader like it was a rubber band. Who knows what they were but obviously big stuff. We were docked in St Kitts a couple of weeks ago when a local boat brought in an 8 ft Tiger shark, and there are definitely some big tuna and marlin out there. We are really not rigged out to handle the big ones however, and it would just be luck coupled with a quandry if we got one to the boat. Quandry, as in what the heck do we do with this thing now. :-) Joe |
Another Big Mahi Mahi Caught While Cruising
Flying Pig wrote:
wrote in message ... Learn to use an electric knife and your yield will be higher! Why electric yielding more? I get right next to the bone with no trouble. As a guy who used to sell cutlery, I know what a sharp knife can do. I've taken to stropping (effectively) mine on a buffer wheel. Even my razor knives revived! L8R Skip, lusting after Mahi, but striking out on all but Barracuda lately I guess it has more to do with how many fish you are cleaning. In our last outing, our group of six caught and cleaned over 150 snapper, grouper, kings, dolphin, and a wahoo. The electric knife won with about 6-1 over the standard filet knife and the yield was better but we were under a time constraint with all of those fish so the guy with the filet knife was getting sloppy. I guess it's a matter of technique but you could almost see through the fillets cut with the electric knife. |
Another Big Mahi Mahi Caught While Cruising
Flying Pig wrote:
wrote in message m... Skip, lusting after Mahi, but striking out on all but Barracuda lately Get one, Skip. Good fish... -- Richard Lamb Hi, Richard, I know about Mahi being good fish (presume that's what you meant). We've been fortunate to catch quite a few - including a 44" one last year, and, in one hour period, also last year, three in a row (much smaller) - but none recently. If you mean the Barracuda, we do keep and relish the30" ones. Like them better than Mahi, in fact. L8R Skip I've heard barracuda were excellent to eat but I know even the smaller fish have a chance of carrying the ciguatera (sp?) disease. |
Another Big Mahi Mahi Caught While Cruising
On Wed, 19 May 2010 19:39:27 -0400, Larry
wrote: Flying Pig wrote: wrote in message m... Skip, lusting after Mahi, but striking out on all but Barracuda lately Get one, Skip. Good fish... -- Richard Lamb Hi, Richard, I know about Mahi being good fish (presume that's what you meant). We've been fortunate to catch quite a few - including a 44" one last year, and, in one hour period, also last year, three in a row (much smaller) - but none recently. If you mean the Barracuda, we do keep and relish the30" ones. Like them better than Mahi, in fact. L8R Skip I've heard barracuda were excellent to eat but I know even the smaller fish have a chance of carrying the ciguatera (sp?) disease. I believe that is not limited to barracuda and any carnivorous fish can carry it. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
Another Big Mahi Mahi Caught While Cruising
"Larry" wrote in message
... Flying Pig wrote: wrote in message ... Learn to use an electric knife and your yield will be higher! Why electric yielding more? I get right next to the bone with no trouble. As a guy who used to sell cutlery, I know what a sharp knife can do. I've taken to stropping (effectively) mine on a buffer wheel. Even my razor knives revived! L8R Skip, lusting after Mahi, but striking out on all but Barracuda lately I guess it has more to do with how many fish you are cleaning. In our last outing, our group of six caught and cleaned over 150 snapper, grouper, kings, dolphin, and a wahoo. The electric knife won with about 6-1 over the standard filet knife and the yield was better but we were under a time constraint with all of those fish so the guy with the filet knife was getting sloppy. I guess it's a matter of technique but you could almost see through the fillets cut with the electric knife. Ah... My filets aren't designed to be multi-cut. Just get it off the fish. I could see how, if you were slicing multiple thicknesses from a single slab it would go faster... L8R Skip -- Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts." (Richard Bach, in Illusions - The Reluctant Messiah) |
Another Big Mahi Mahi Caught While Cruising
On 5/20/10 10:13 AM, Flying Pig wrote:
wrote in message ... Flying Pig wrote: wrote in message ... Learn to use an electric knife and your yield will be higher! Why electric yielding more? I get right next to the bone with no trouble. As a guy who used to sell cutlery, I know what a sharp knife can do. I've taken to stropping (effectively) mine on a buffer wheel. Even my razor knives revived! L8R Skip, lusting after Mahi, but striking out on all but Barracuda lately I guess it has more to do with how many fish you are cleaning. In our last outing, our group of six caught and cleaned over 150 snapper, grouper, kings, dolphin, and a wahoo. The electric knife won with about 6-1 over the standard filet knife and the yield was better but we were under a time constraint with all of those fish so the guy with the filet knife was getting sloppy. I guess it's a matter of technique but you could almost see through the fillets cut with the electric knife. Ah... My filets aren't designed to be multi-cut. Just get it off the fish. I could see how, if you were slicing multiple thicknesses from a single slab it would go faster... L8R Skip Only six pigs would pull and keep 150 fish out of the ocean. That's 25 fish each. Oink, oink, oink. -- The Tea Party's teabaggers are just the Republican base by another name. |
Another Big Mahi Mahi Caught While Cruising
On 5/20/2010 5:31 PM, hk wrote:
On 5/20/10 10:13 AM, Flying Pig wrote: wrote in message ... Flying Pig wrote: wrote in message ... Learn to use an electric knife and your yield will be higher! Why electric yielding more? I get right next to the bone with no trouble. As a guy who used to sell cutlery, I know what a sharp knife can do. I've taken to stropping (effectively) mine on a buffer wheel. Even my razor knives revived! L8R Skip, lusting after Mahi, but striking out on all but Barracuda lately I guess it has more to do with how many fish you are cleaning. In our last outing, our group of six caught and cleaned over 150 snapper, grouper, kings, dolphin, and a wahoo. The electric knife won with about 6-1 over the standard filet knife and the yield was better but we were under a time constraint with all of those fish so the guy with the filet knife was getting sloppy. I guess it's a matter of technique but you could almost see through the fillets cut with the electric knife. Ah... My filets aren't designed to be multi-cut. Just get it off the fish. I could see how, if you were slicing multiple thicknesses from a single slab it would go faster... L8R Skip Only six pigs would pull and keep 150 fish out of the ocean. That's 25 fish each. Oink, oink, oink. Might be the plan was to give some of it to homeless or needy people. But, I suppose that might not have occurred to one of the me-me-me folks. |
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