On Tue, 18 May 2010 12:35:21 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

Yes, and lots of it. We need to get some place where we can have a
fish fry with fellow cruisers, otherwise the two of us we will be
eating Mahi Mahi for a long time. We have sort of an informal policy
where we don't fish unless we need more, so I'd like to see it get
eaten up soon. This area between Puerto Rico, the Dominican
Republic, and the Turks and Caicos has really excellent fishing.

How many will it feed? Just wondering... seems like you could seat quite a
few.

You get about 10 to 12 pounds of solid, usable fillets from a 35 pound
fish, probably a little more if you are really good (which I'm not).

We got about 12 big servings from a 40 pounder back in January, with a
little left over.

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 18 May 2010 12:35:21 -0700, "Capt.
wrote:


Yes, and lots of it. We need to get some place where we can have a
fish fry with fellow cruisers, otherwise the two of us we will be
eating Mahi Mahi for a long time. We have sort of an informal policy
where we don't fish unless we need more, so I'd like to see it get
eaten up soon. This area between Puerto Rico, the Dominican
Republic, and the Turks and Caicos has really excellent fishing.

How many will it feed? Just wondering... seems like you could seat quite a
few.

You get about 10 to 12 pounds of solid, usable fillets from a 35 pound
fish, probably a little more if you are really good (which I'm not).

We got about 12 big servings from a 40 pounder back in January, with a
little left over.

Learn to use an electric knife and your yield will be higher!

"Larry" wrote in message
news
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

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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

Flying Pig wrote:
"Larry" wrote in message
news
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...


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"cavelamb" wrote in message
m...
Skip, lusting after Mahi, but striking out on all but Barracuda lately


Get one, Skip. Good fish...


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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

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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

Flying Pig wrote:
wrote in message
news
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.

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.

"Larry" wrote in message
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Flying Pig wrote:
wrote in message
news
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

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(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)