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Re: What so y'all do with all dat fish ?

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Originally Posted by WhaleFart (Post 384459)

Douche? Troll? Grow up my friend. That's coming from a guy who's probably ally younger then you.

It's an honest question and I didn't mean to offend anyone. I was making room in my freezer for the holiday and just thought to myself how the F do ppl keep all this fish?

Hell, I don't care what anyone does with there catch, it's a free country, and as long as you stay within the law who am I to judge?

One guy said it right that he gives it to local business as almost a barter agreement. Shit id gladly give fish away for free dry cleaning.

I didn't mean to upset anyone, I just was curious as to what many of you do with your catch as obviously some catch/keep a ton more then I do and I struggle to eat it all.

Just an FYI, I eat fish every single day, out side of the random salmon fillet , I've not purchased fish in two years. I want to give off shore seabass a shot but I simply don't know what i would do with my catch as I've hit my personal and responsible quota for the year.

Anyways apologies for anyone who took this the wrong way. I'm going to have a nice talk with mr.kim at my dry cleaners and try and make some agreement. Getting sick and tired of my $60 dry cleaning a week.

Happy tday all, enjoy the bird, family, and football

Don't take everything everybody says here serious this is what you do with your fish & it's your right. I'm similar to shrimp man Steve I give most of my catch to my buddy Frank not one bit of that fish goes to waste. Most of the fish that we discard when the fish gets filet gets eaten. They eat whole fish I also have a big family & A big network of friends that gets my fish. The Internet is getting to the point where you get criticized for everything you say or do. Don't apoligize for anything you just wanted some answers & it's your right. It's looks like you want to do the right thing with your overages. Take some of the comments with a little bit a grain of salt not everybody believs in the same stuff. Guys lighten up a bit it seems like everybody wants to chop up everybody lately.

Re: What so y'all do with all dat fish ?

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Originally Posted by jmurr711 (Post 384481)

i was joking everyone who knows me knows i eat the god dammn bones lol

I believe it!.....If a bluefish has been in the freezer for awhile, the BONES probably are better tasting than the flesh.

Back in the 1950's when we got our first stand-alone freezer, we (my Dad and I) froze a large quantity of bluefish. The stuff that came out of the freezer a few months later was terrible tasting and had a lousy texture. So as you said initially, a large part of the catch went into the garden that Spring. We saved some of it for crab bait, and some to be ground up as chum for fall snapper fishing in the Navesink River. Over the years, I have tried freezing blues again several times with the same results. I love fresh blues if they are eaten the day they a caught, but not frozen. Release those that can't be consumed within a day or so.

Denny

Re: What so y'all do with all dat fish ?

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Originally Posted by 1captainron (Post 384385)

You must work for NOAA....they think the same way!!!:D

Spot on Capt Ron, think: "Or do you enjoy just killing fish and giving it away or collect freezer burn?" might have been the clue.;)
Guess I missed the connect with "body builder" too!:D

Re: What so y'all do with all dat fish ?

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Originally Posted by jmurr711 (Post 384481)

i was joking everyone who knows me knows i eat the god dammn bones lol

i feed pennypack.. Nuff said!

Re: What so y'all do with all dat fish ?

I feed my family fresh fish first...
I give fresh filets and racks to the chefs at my work...
I give fresh filets to neighbors who see me coming home from the trip...
I freeze some, especially for winter...when I freeze it I know when it was caught how it was handled. The trick for me is not to cook a frozen filet like a fresh filet.
I keep bags of cheeks in the freezer as well as I like to serve them as appetizers when friends are over. They are all amazed that fish cheeks are so damn good!