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xerces
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Where were you fishing?
There are some great places to fish up north of the city, in Westchester. We used to fish as kids in NYC's reservoirs and catch huge carp and other fish.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: Caught a ton of fish!!! |
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Panfish(sunfish, bluegills, etc) are my favorite, followed closely by walleye and then probably crappie.
Catch them on worms or poppers/jigs?
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject: Re: Caught a ton of fish!!! |
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| frankthetank wrote: | Panfish(sunfish, bluegills, etc) are my favorite, followed closely by walleye and then probably crappie.
Catch them on worms or poppers/jigs? |
Night Crawlers and Meal Worms.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject: Re: Caught a ton of fish!!! |
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| And the great thing is that you did the lake a favor. Those guys will overpopulate really easily and it's important to take out a bunch of the small bluegill. Lots of folks don't like to mess with cleaning them, but they're good eating and if you have a small sharp fillet knife just take a good fillet off each side and you'll have them cleaned in no time. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject: Re: Caught a ton of fish!!! |
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My great grandmother used to feed fish to her cow. The milk tasted a bit off, but slice an onion into it, let it simmer, you end up with the finest chowder.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:39 pm Post subject: Re: Caught a ton of fish!!! |
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| One of the best things I ever ate was fresh walleye. |
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PeakOiler
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:05 pm Post subject: Re: Caught a ton of fish!!! |
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| xerces wrote: |
Caught 27 lbs of panfish today!  |
Score!
Before I learned about PO, I had used some inheritance money from my Mother's passing to buy a used 17' Glastron Bowrider ski boat. It can, of course be used to fish from, so I need to calculate how many fish I would need to catch to exceed the gasoline energy to get the boat to the water plus the amount of gasoline used for the boat once it's on the lake. Lake Buchanan is about 25 miles from my house, and when the F-150 is pulling the boat, I only get about 12.5 mpg. So at least four gallons of gasoline would be needed just to get the boat to the lake and back. (Or ca. $16 worth of fish.)
Anyone want to relate how many lbs of filleted fish (calories) I would need to harvest to cover the gasoline energy value?
I haven't had the boat at the lake in about two years, one reason is the eroei.
But there is the fun factor...
Edited for clarification.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:17 pm Post subject: Re: Caught a ton of fish!!! |
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I'm sure I don't need to tell you this, Xerces, but the parts of the fish you don't eat go into the garden...
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject: Re: Caught a ton of fish!!! |
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| When I was little, the old neighbor guy used to plant a patch of corn behind his barn. We lived on a lake and he would go catch some fish and put a dead fish under each plant. |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject: Re: Caught a ton of fish!!! |
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| mercurygirl wrote: | | When I was little, the old neighbor guy used to plant a patch of corn behind his barn. We lived on a lake and he would go catch some fish and put a dead fish under each plant. |
That's what the native American Indians figured out a long time ago.
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ShinyOldLady
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject: Re: Caught a ton of fish!!! |
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Whatever you don't eat, bottle/jar the rest. Home canned fish is excellent! Way better than canned tuna!
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frankthetank
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:29 pm Post subject: Re: Caught a ton of fish!!! |
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Fishing is one area i could stand to spend more time doing. I have all the equipment, live about a mile from the river and like doing it. I do hate filleting fish, although the guts are awesome fertilizer.
Since i first started my garden, i bet i have 30 or so walleyes carcases in the garden. I just bury them around my plants, just under the surface so the flies can't get to them.
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