Fog Trip

[SeaDooDavid]

At least I got my lardass out week before last! The days of that thick fog we had, I ventured out on a flat calm sea just 1200 metres or so out. Not much fish, just some doggies and schoolie pollock (all returned)

 

Some of the doggies were quite big and felt like dustbin lids coming up ha ha. Good fun though! Weird in the fog, especially when the tide turned me about face on my anchor, which did my nut in till I looked at the GPS

 

 

Roll on the summer

 

SDD~~~~

[darnsarf]

Nice one SDD.

 

Decent doggie as well. GPS is worth its weight in gold in those situations.

[SeaDooDavid]

Nice one SDD.

 

Decent doggie as well. GPS is worth its weight in gold in those situations.

 

Hi DS

 

Yeah, good ol GPS! Was right next to a marker post so could scuttle there very quickly if any speeding boats were to pass (they didn't!) and had the drift alarm set to 50 metres just in case the anchor slipped. First time I have used that function on the FF / GPS, VERY useful in fog on anchor

 

The doggie on the pic wasn't the biggest either, bloomin huge things ha ha.

 

All the best

 

SDD~~~~

[Volusian]

Nice doggies there seaDoo ........... can you actually eat them . ? dont get many in east coast waters ..

[SeaDooDavid]

Nice doggies there seaDoo ........... can you actually eat them . ? dont get many in east coast waters ..

 

Hiya

 

Yep you can eat em, very nice too! (mine went back though) they are like skate or shark though, you have to soak em in salty water to remove ammonia otherwise yuk

 

You may not get em but you get the REAL cod!!

 

Dave

 

SDD~~~~

[paintfly]

Hiya

 

Yep you can eat em, very nice too! (mine went back though) they are like skate or shark though, you have to soak em in salty water to remove ammonia otherwise yuk

 

You may not get em but you get the REAL cod!!

 

Dave

 

SDD~~~~

 

Would be interested in a detailed account of how to prepare them, as I hear they're very tasty, especially on a barbie. I remember reading about it somewhere (maybe not on this forum). Think you have to hang them off a hook to strip the skin off, a bit like a rabbit, and then there's the ammonia thing, as you say SDD. Do you know any more about it?

[overrun]

At least I got my lardass out week before last! The days of that thick fog we had, I ventured out on a flat calm sea just 1200 metres or so out. Not much fish, just some doggies and schoolie pollock (all returned)

 

Some of the doggies were quite big and felt like dustbin lids coming up ha ha. Good fun though! Weird in the fog, especially when the tide turned me about face on my anchor, which did my nut in till I looked at the GPS

Roll on the summer

 

SDD~~~~

 

Great stuff SDD.

 

Only just sorted the Nav light, do I need to put a Fog Horn on the equipment list as well?

[paintfly]

Found this over on WSF

http://www.worldseafishing.com/forums/show...ad.php?p=263384

[codshead]

If you ever go into a chip shop and ask for rock and chips , its dogfish your eating. Caught hundreds of the bloody things and they do make good eating , they are quite simple to prepare and have got no bones in em only cartilage. I've never soaked em before I've eaten them and never found a problem with amonia , had an Italian mate who was a chef and he used to love cooking doggies he never soaked them either . Sometimes there called rock eel or rock salmon.

[SeaDooDavid]

If you ever go into a chip shop and ask for rock and chips , its dogfish your eating. Caught hundreds of the bloody things and they do make good eating , they are quite simple to prepare and have got no bones in em only cartilage. I've never soaked em before I've eaten them and never found a problem with amonia , had an Italian mate who was a chef and he used to love cooking doggies he never soaked them either . Sometimes there called rock eel or rock salmon.

 

Bang on Codshead

 

Its the guts and to a lesser extent the skin that has a bit of ammonia in them! If you gut em at sea, no problem! Some boat fishermen tie the gutted fish (including skate wings) behind the boat for the trip back in and they are perfect by the time they are back to port!.

 

I managed to get the skin off quite easily by dipping them in boiling water first and then slit down the back and around the head, hold the head (salt on hands helps the grip) then just peel off skin like a rabbit. You are left with mainly the back and tail section, slit down the length of this so the knife touches the cartilage in the middle. You should then be able to pull out this in one slow movement leaving just yummy fish to eat. Breading them and deep fat frying them creates a scampi like meal~~~~yum

 

SDD~~~~