Wilson wrote:
sometime in the recent past tom posted this:

Hai! Those halibut are really something --- stories abound of guys
under-estimating their strength, hauling them into a small rowboat
only to have them smash the hull by slamming around and then they swim
away, leaving the fisherman in the water amidst the wreckage of what
used to be a rowboat. Yeah, they're solid muscle --- if I get one (big
if) it'll a little guy.

Salmon gear is more complicated than simple bottom-fish jigging gear,
so I think if I catch anything, it will be snapper, rock cod, maybe
halibut, or bivalves because I won't have room for fancy gear.

I was just reading the Health Canada website and they have a blanket
recommendation to freeze everything. I obviously won't be able to do
that. OK, I will try to minimize my exposure to parasites by avoiding
salmon, and only using healthy-looking snapper/rock cod/geoduck-foot
as sashimi, the rest I will either bake wrapped in kelp, buried in
sand under a fire on the beach, or cooked the First nations way on
spreader-sticks over a fire.

Last trip I ate a bunch of mussels, here's a pic:

http://picasaweb.google.com/tomfromv...62149196161634




Tom, what is all that floating in the water in pic # 120?

Looks like drift wood or kelp.. probably wood.

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Dan