Hunting and Fishing Thread - With Poll

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Re: MMMMMMMMMMM

skullsike said:

Now I like to debone those flukeflounders and stuff the cavity with the crab meat or a crawfish & shrimp rice stuffing but what is better than that is a turtle sauce piquant !


Dont throw away that turtle that is gold down here!

Pepper will kill dat pcb and the mercury will rise

Hey Skull,

You never finished that recipe you posted, for the inquiring minds. Like what size cans, etc..Take care of unfinished business, for Goodness "Sikes", before we see the Turtle Sauce Pissant!

 

[energy]

Agreed?

Mike S. said:

not many people could outshoot me.

Now, that's no Bull! Have a good weekend. Fishin Sunday!

 

[energy]

Re: Re: Re: MMMMMMMMMMM

skullsike said:

I told ya go look!

OOOOOPS! Mea Culpa.

 

[Al Dyer]

Turtle meat is great. I had it in Florida back in the late 60's, early 70's. It was turtle soup with a turtle and frogleg type of stew and rice. I was about 14 at the time. Of course this was also a time when they stitched dried baby gators to womens purses in Tarpon Springs. Boy they had some good eats there and you could actually buy real sponges off of the docks.!!!!

I can only imagine that once in a lifetime tase now and of course turtle is now in short order. This was back when there were lots of turtle and few gators, the it has come full circle. I've never tasted gator but I hear it's good!!!

 

[Al Dyer]

And no, Turtle does not tase like Chicken, it tastes like Turtle!!

 

[Mike S.]

pancreas said:

Turtle meat is great. I had it in Florida back in the late 60's, early 70's. It was turtle soup with a turtle and frogleg type of stew and rice.

I understand from a friend who visited China a few years back that their finest turtle soup recipe involves putting the WHOLE live turtle into a pot of water, and simmering it until the shell gets soft, then the whole mess is ladled into your bowl. Yecch!

 

[Craig H.]

pancreas

Gator tail is good, but it has to be VERY tenderized or its like shoe leather.

We (in GA) are getting our first gator season this year, I think.

I am told that the old timers here used to wade in the river and catch the turtles on the bottom, by hand. I'm not sure I believe it, but I have heard this from a few independant sources...

Of course, back then there were no aligators in the river, either.

Craig

 

[energy]

I guess so

Mike S. said:

I understand from a friend who visited China a few years back that their finest turtle soup recipe involves putting the WHOLE live turtle into a pot of water, and simmering it until the shell gets soft, then the whole mess is ladled into your bowl. Yecch!

There is a blueish looking sack inside that must never be compromised lest you release all kind of bad stuff onto the flesh. I saw it and it is abominable. But, for the Chinese, that may be a blessing! Bon Apetite!

 

[Ken K]

Turtles! I won't bore you guys with another story, but we used to catch them for a local bar owner. He gave us 29 cents a pound.

He actually made bowls out of the shells and served the soup in them. Man, I have not had turtle soup in years...guess I might have to fix that.

energy, out turkey hunting tomorrow in the am and then a fish and game banquet tomorrow night.

 

[Randy Stewart]

Okay, now

Well look what happens when you turn your back for a minute! All I can say is "I resemble that remark energy"! However, I was not a surface puke so in actuality I was not a "squid", I was either a "bubble head" or "brown water sailor" depending on my rotation. We learned to expect that kind of stuff from those uneducated, stuck-up, prissy boys that were so scared of the "real" Navy that they had to play "aerodale". I don't know how many times I've come back from a 90 - 120 day deployment and would be walking down the pier to hear some over weight, wind bag of a chief (E-7 +) tell me to get a hair cut!!! Where we went we didn't have a ships store or barber. That was for all those spoiled cry babies too afraid to cut the apron string from mama. They just couldn't take being away from all those luxuries of shore!!!! Bottom line is that if you couldn't take a joke you had no place in the Navy!
Got the boat in the water Friday, but ended up going to PA on Saturday for my son's track meet. My son Paul won the Midwestern Athletic Conference Pole Vault Championship and made the Lawrence County Track Honor Roll!!!!! He jump 14'2" and on his last attempt just brushed the bar at 14'6"! This weekend he's in the WPIAL playoffs. Got all summer to fish but only a couple more months to see him jump in high school.