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[Flukinit]

Reel was great, love it!

Snapper what rod do you have the reel set up with?

 

[Snapprhead27]

Snapper what rod do you have the reel set up with?

Shimano Saguaro 7' LINE 12-20, POWER Medium, ACTION Fast........ I used to have a Shimano Cardiff 400a on it.

 

[Leprechaun]

With the crummy weekend forecast on our minds, headed out early this morning, with Capt. Mike - KenScot was busy being on stand-by for his office, and so couldn't join us.

He didn't miss much. Despite a very nice drift in the deep, only one keeper for the day along with maybe 8 throwbacks, and the usual mixed bag of tasty critter culprits.

Hit a couple of my pet open/broken bottom drops, and a couple of deeper hard bottom areas, but couldn't get a thing going. Sad, because the conditions today were about as good as you could ask for. So much so that I stuck with my new Evict 2000/BH 691UL spinning setup for pretty much the entire day. That rig is SMOKIN'!, by the way! This trip was pretty disappointing, as after last Saturday's trip, it looked as though things were on the upswing. Apparently, not so much.

At least I got to test out my repair of my overheating cooling system. Throwing $450 worth of new RW pump into the boat, solved it. Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money!

I hope things turn around for the coming Holiday weekend, as this crappy fluking is becoming a major bummer.

Anyway, the big biscuit will be made whole, Asian-style. Can't wait to see my wife's face when her dinner will be staring back at her. This oughta be fun!

 

[hartattack]

Big ones turned on today in NJ sticky stuff. My buddy dropped one even bigger than this one, we'll try to fin

d it tomorrow.

 

[Snapprhead27]

With the crummy weekend forecast on our minds, headed out early this morning, with Capt. Mike - KenScot was busy being on stand-by for his office, and so couldn't join us.

He didn't miss much. Despite a very nice drift in the deep, only one keeper for the day along with maybe 8 throwbacks, along with the usual mixed bag of culprits.

Hit a couple of my pet open/broken bottom drops, and a couple of deeper hard bottom areas, but couldn't get a thing going. Sad, because the conditions today were about as good as you could ask for. So much so that I stuck with my new Evict 2000/BH 691UL spinning setup for pretty much the entire day. That rig is SMOKIN'!, by the way! This trip was pretty disappointing, as after last Saturday's trip, it looked as though things were on the upswing. Apparently, not so much.

At least I got to test out my repair of my overheating cooling system. Throwing $450 worth of new RW pump into the boat, solved it. Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money!

I hope things turn around for the coming Holiday weekend, as this crappy fluking is becoming a major bummer.

Anyway, the big biscuit will be made whole, Asian-style. Can't wait to see my wife's face when her dinner will be staring back at her. This oughta be fun!

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Nice Job Lep!! How do you prepare the Sea Bass whole?

 

[Leprechaun]

HA - very nice! Have to admit, I’m envious! One of the Seven Deadly Sins, right?

SH27 - not happenin’ ‘til tomorrow, but here’s a hint:

 

[live bait]

HA - very nice! Have to admit, I’m envious! One of the Seven Deadly Sins, rIght?

SH27 - not happenin’ ‘til tomorrow, but here’s a hint:

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I'll be tuned in for part 2.
John

 

[Snapprhead27]

HA - very nice! Have to admit, I’m envious! One of the Seven Deadly Sins, rIght?

SH27 - not happenin’ ‘til tomorrow, but here’s a hint:

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OOOoooo interesting!! Never seen that before.

 

[Snapprhead27]

Anyway, the big biscuit will be made whole, Asian-style. Can't wait to see my wife's face when her dinner will be staring back at her. This oughta be fun!

This is what I thought of when you said this!

 

[Captphil]

Last week at Nantucket Shoals. 8 & 9.5 pounders, medium size of what we kept.

 

[Leprechaun]

O.K., so here it is, Steamed Seabass, Asian-style . . . recipe at the bottom of this post. Borrowed (with respect) from On The Water's Youtube channel.

Fish properly cleaned and side-slashed:

Fish prepped with main ingredients:

Fresh out of our home-rigged stove-top steamer:

Plated with fish broth-infused Broccolini and brown rice:

The patient most definitely did not survive the operation:

And a toaster oven tray of the same ingredients and sauce over ling fillet:

The ingredients:

1 whole 2 to 3-pound black sea bass
2 tsps. salt
1-inch piece of ginger, julienned
3 cloves garlic. sliced thin
3 TBS fermented black beans, coarse chopped
3 whole scallions, julienned
2 TBS soy sauce
2 TBS dry sherry
Pinch of sugar
1½ TBS peanut oil
3/4 tsp. dark sesame oil
A minor handful of fresh cilantro
A thin-sliced small whole lime

After making it for the first time, I Would recommend picking up the quantities of all the ingredients a bit, maybe up 50% on each. And I would lose the salt, as the salt-cured black beans were more than enough in the sodium department, even after repeated rinsing.

Really a wonderful way to prepare a whole fish. Super-excellent tasting! Enjoy!

Here is the vid for your review. Its a bit talky, but they are not pro chefs:

 

[Snapprhead27]

O.K., so here it is, Asian Steamed Seabass . . . recipe at the bottom of this post. Borrowed from On The Water's website.

Fish prepped with main ingredients:

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Fresh out of our home-rigged stove-top steamer:

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Plated with the fish's broth-infused Broccolini and brown rice:

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The patient most definitely did not survive the operation:

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And a toaster oven tray of the same ingredients and sauce over ling fillet:

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The ingredients:

1 whole 2 to 3-pound black sea bass
2 tsps. salt
1-inch piece of ginger, julienned
3 cloves garlic. sliced thin
3 TBS fermented black beans, coarse chopped
3 whole scallions, julienned
2 TBS soy sauce
2 TBS dry sherry
Pinch of sugar
1½ TBS peanut oil
3/4 tsp. dark sesame oil
A minor handful of fresh cilantro

I recommend picking up the quantities of all the ingredients a bit, maybe up 50% on each. I would lose the salt. as the salted black beans were more than enough, even after repeated rinsing.

Really a wonderful way to prepare a whole fish. Super-excellent tasting! Enjoy!

Here is the vid for your review. Its a bit talky, but they are not pro chefs:

Thanks for posting!! Looks great!

 

[Capt Richie]

tomorrow looks like a bluebird day..hope the weather man is right.

 

[Pete21]

I'll be out tomorrow out of jones ,any insight on where to start ?

 

[Capt Richie]

Im not fishing south in the deep...going to go east or west not sure..up to what the ocean looks like & wind direction when I break inlet...thinking of taking a ride east...

 

[Chinacat]

tomorrow looks like a bluebird day..hope the weather man is right.

We hoping for same conditions here in Shinnecock. Looks like we may have to deal with the early morning fog that’s been hanging over the east end the past few weeks

Plan is to hit the sea bass grounds first then hunt down some fluke ?

 

[live bait]

We hoping for same conditions here in Shinnecock. Looks like we may have to deal with the early morning fog that’s been hanging over the east end the past few weeks

Plan is to hit the sea bass grounds first then hunt down some fluke ?

Heading in that direction myself in the morning, hope to help the Bass harass the bunker.
John

 

[Capt Richie]

no good reports south of jones over the weekend...I really dont like fishing on the weekends...I enjoy being the only boat in site

 

[missberylcharters]

Caught a few this weekend, Sunday was sure a roaster.

 

[Capt Richie]

went today first three drifts 5 keepers to 6.5 lbs nice clean fat fish..than the tide stopped & we caught shorts the rest of the day...boated two 4+ lb ling

we ate like kings home made fall off the bone ribs & lobster/seafood salad ..