Just a cousin today

[pequa1]

Wasn't sure if after catching only one snapper of livelining size (and rest assured I took three "good'uns" for the barbie on the way back in) and with the wind and chop picking up, if I would have any luck. Those of you old enough may remember the opening of "Victory at Sea." (I think I will be adding the DVD to Santa's list this year.)
Wind against tide in my "spot" and in 15 minutes I netted a 22" blue. I would have preferred another weak, but SWMBO applies a lite mayo and Italian bread crumb covering and pops them in the oven. Fresh, its actually quite good. No jokes please about cooking them with a brick, throwing the blue out and eating the brick. You really gotta try them this way.

 

[longcast]

You enjoy, that is what counts!

 

[Aquarius]

 

[pequa1]

I could have sworn it opened with a battleship or heavy cruiser breaking through the waves, with the spray almost reaching the bridge... Granted, I have turned 70 but didn't think I had lost it just yet.

 

[TonySmjc]

Wasn't sure if after catching only one snapper of livelining size (and rest assured I took three "good'uns" for the barbie on the way back in) and with the wind and chop picking up, if I would have any luck. Those of you old enough may remember the opening of "Victory at Sea." (I think I will be adding the DVD to Santa's list this year.)
Wind against tide in my "spot" and in 15 minutes I netted a 22" blue. I would have preferred another weak, but SWMBO applies a lite mayo and Italian bread crumb covering and pops them in the oven. Fresh, its actually quite good. No jokes please about cooking them with a brick, throwing the blue out and eating the brick. You really gotta try them this way.


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Fresh well taken care of blue fish is very good eating

 

[pequa1]

Fresh well taken care of blue fish is very good eating

Yes they are, and almost all my catches are still alive when I get home since I use stringers off the yak.

 

[jpd]

I've got the DVD set. When we were kids, we'd watch them on my friends dad's RCA Selectavision.
They were kind of like records that played video, but they weren't Laserdiscs.

 

[pequa1]

I've got the DVD set. When we were kids, we'd watch them on my friends dad's RCA Selectavision.
They were kind of like records that played video, but they weren't Laserdiscs.

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Am I losing it ? Why do I so vividly recall a warship plowing through heavy seas on a TV show intro??

 

[TonySmjc]

Yes they are, and almost all my catches are still alive when I get home since I use stringers off the yak.

I like my blues dead
Bleed iced
Then fillet while very cold

but if you like em live guess that’s ok

 

[captmike28]

Am I losing it ? Why do I so vividly recall a warship plowing through heavy seas on a TV show intro??

You are not losing it, Pequa. During the course of the show they did use a couple of different opening scenes.

I too am 70 and as a young boy I vividly recall those shots of the battleship crashing through those monstrous waves! Very stirring, or as my daughter used to call it in subsequent years "a spirited ride"!

In fact after watching the show, whenever my Dad and I would go fishing on a particularly rough day we used to call it a "Victory at Sea day"!!

 

[Fluke Whisperer]

Bluefish before they start eating bunker are really good, my wife is Italian, she cooks them up with sauce, tomatoes and peppers, over a bed of rice, some good italian bread, delicious.

 

[Aquarius]

You are not losing it, Pequa. During the course of the show they did use a couple of different opening scenes.

I too am 70 and as a young boy I vividly recall those shots of the battleship crashing through those monstrous waves! Very stirring, or as my daughter used to call it in subsequent years "a spirited ride"!

In fact after watching the show, whenever my Dad and I would go fishing on a particularly rough day we used to call it a "Victory at Sea day"!!

I have the DVD collectors edition set. I only remember the beginning that I posted. There were lots of scenes of rough seas. There were several films taken during the infamous Typhoon Cobra that put 4 destroyers on the bottom and killed more men than any major battle that we were involved in during the war.

 

[pequa1]

As a teen I read every volume of samuel eliot morrison’s USNavy in WW2. Would have gone Navy but Hofstra only had Army ROTC !

 

[TonySmjc]

Bluefish before they start eating bunker are really good, my wife is Italian, she cooks them up with sauce, tomatoes and peppers, over a bed of rice, some good italian bread, delicious.

My grandmother used to make a white chowder out of them when I was a kid
Don’t know how an Italian off the boat figured that one out
But man was it good

she made stock from the heads
Then made a thick chowder heavy with potato n onions
Added the fillets in last and broke em up

no one ever turned down seconds of thirds

 

[Pangaroo]

Wasn't sure if after catching only one snapper of livelining size (and rest assured I took three "good'uns" for the barbie on the way back in) and with the wind and chop picking up, if I would have any luck. Those of you old enough may remember the opening of "Victory at Sea." (I think I will be adding the DVD to Santa's list this year.)
Wind against tide in my "spot" and in 15 minutes I netted a 22" blue. I would have preferred another weak, but SWMBO applies a lite mayo and Italian bread crumb covering and pops them in the oven. Fresh, its actually quite good. No jokes please about cooking them with a brick, throwing the blue out and eating the brick. You really gotta try them this way.


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They make Bluefish so tasty at Greek diners. Wish I had their recipes.

 

[Pangaroo]

My Grandmother from Norway use to make soup with Codfish heads ! I saw that soup and said no.

 

[pequa1]

They make Bluefish so tasty at Greek diners. Wish I had their recipes.

We are having the second filet tonight. SWMBO covers it with a lite mayo and Italian bread crumbs and then bakes it. Dee-lish !

 

[sytheteacher]

Years ago my mother would make a fish soup using the head and all the bones and the place it in the refrigerator and the next day all the fish fat would coagulate on the top of the soup. We would that the fish fat that coagulated into a jelly and spread it on a piece of toasted bread..

 

[pequa1]

Depression years ?