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[Sily]

One more question... W C Fields, my favorite movie star.  I have ALL his movies.  Is that the name of the boat you were on.

[AndrewX]

I told husband this and his face lit up...

To calm him down Sily you best tell him the remainder of the story...

They only do it once, lasts all of 1 minute, and the current and waves in the knee-height water they do it in then does all the distribution.  I suppose he could do the same if he wound up in a pool that was heated to body temperature and with 200 women in it and powerful pump to keep the water well stirred... he may find that exciting too... till he realizes that he'd have to deposit his goodness outside of any woman to let the water do its stuff.  Fancy that aye?  200 lovelys and all he can do is invite Mrs.Pamler and her 5 daughters.lolol  That would have to be another definition of the word 'torture' for most males me thinks.:big grin: 

Those are some HUGE fish.  You lucky person.  I'll bet they were deeeelish.

They're big, and considered one of the finest table fish within our waters, and they're highly prized by all anglers because of they're fighting ability.  The big bull you see took me over half an hour to bring in and I was using 10kg line.  The females come in quicker as they don't have the fight of the males.  The males in full season are fully sick when they're hooked, like a locomative on the end of your line, they can break line which has a breaking strain which is twice they're weight in their initial run once they're hooked.  They're a mean competitor that often use 'bluff' to get away by saving a large burst of energy and allowing themselves to be brought next to the boat.  As the unexpecting angler starts to relax and tightens up the pressure on his reel thinking it's all over, they can skull dive with tremendous force that'll catch out many anglers and result in a bust off.  Stand clear of the angler when this happens as they have been known to explode in a fit of cursing and fury as they throw their rods down on the floor of the boat in absolute disgust of missing a prized fish.  The nerve of that fish to come right next to the boat and look the angler in the eye before telling him to go and jump before disappearing into the blue yonder aye?  Can make a grown man cry I tellz yaz.:big grin:

BTW... 1 little used method I love eating them with is to simply steam a fat slab of their meat fully, then sprinkle it with oliveOil, lemon, shreaded fresh ginger and a dash of white vinegar, salt and cracked pepper to taste... then down the hatch.:big grin:  The meat of these large ones, when cooked well, pulls away exactly like medallions of lobster or crayfish and tastes very similar to it also.  They're a class act on the table Sily, make no mistake... $15-$20 per kilo at the markets for whole fish of this size.  At $20/kg that makes the large one worth about $220... whole fish.  Not scaled nor gutted nor gilled nor filleted... by the time they're filleted, the fillets cost well over $30/kg.

But irrespective of the price of any given species of fish, my favorite eaters are the fish which live closest to the BOTTOM of the sea.  I have a saying, the lower they live, the better they taste... and I say that from a lifetime of experiance of being able to eat fish that are so fresh that they'd be swimming if they were any fresher.  The higher up in the water that a fish lives, the less tasty it is.  Remember that and you'll never go wrong.  My favorite eating fish are the Flathead and the Flounder... and you can't get them any lower in the water than that... they sit on the bottom.  One of these days I plan to go to Canada or Alaska when the Halibut are in season... I'm busting to try a big fillet of Halibut as I know how deep and cold the waters are they dwell in.  That's a recipe for the moat tastiest swimming morsel if ever there was one.  I can't believe there are no Halibut in the Southern Hemisphere.:crybaby:
 

Any chance that is the master fisherman himself holding the fish, wearing the red jacket?

ummm... which master fisherman?:big grin: 

That's my mate John who did the gaffing for me... I'm the one taking the picture.  I would not allow anyone to touch my digi-camera on a boat with their hands looking the way my mates do.  If you knew what I payed for it you'd understand Sily.  I bring it out in an airtight aluminium box that I've make myself and is lined with enough foam to allow you to saftly carry nitro-glyserin in the box whilst riding a horse without a chance of an explosion.  No joke, you can actually kick the box as hard as you wish with the camera in it and nothing would happen to the camera... you can even fully submerse the box in water and the insides remain totally dry.  I couldn't find anything on the market that would do that for me, so I built it myself.  

In fact Sily, I have not appeared in any of the pics I've shown of my fish.  I'm the one always taking the pics and others with me do the holding.  It's the fish I wish to photograph, not me.  But i Do have some older pics that others took of me fishing and with the fish I'd caught... in those days I didn't have a ridicoulasly priced camera to take care of.  Do you wanna see one with me in it?  Do you think it would be safe to show it here?  lolol  Can do if you wish though.:)

[AndrewX]

btw... I just call the male Snappers WC Fields Snozza's because of their WC fields noses. IT's not the name of the boat, no.

My favorite WC fields quote...{in my best WC Fields voice of course}...


"I went to Cinninatti once, it was closssssed"



LOLOL:big grin:

[AndrewX]

In fact Sily, I have not appeared in any of the pics I've shown of my fish.

 

...except for one of the pics where you can see my arm and leg.  I let my mate take that pic becasue we were on-shore right next to my house and he was just watching, not fishing, so his hands were very clean and dry.

[Sily]

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...200 lovelys and all he can do is invite Mrs.Pamler and her 5 daughters...l

[size="2"] Andrew... that is soooo cool.  You said five daughters and do you know that this morning I had further discussions with Mr. Sily about the "200 lovelys" and he groaned and moaned and sighed and said REALLY he could only handle 5 women a day, at his age...... not 200.  See the cool coincidence?  You said the number 5, about twelve hours before he did.  And now the sentence "...and all he can do is invite Mrs.Pamler and her 5 daughters..." makes even more sense.  :nod:  Hehe.. I love connections like this[/size][size="2"]![/size][size="2"]

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I would love to see your picture but this place is sooooo public, so many visitors.  I just thought that was you with the beard and red jacket.  I know now it was a buddy on the boat.[/size][size="-1"][size="2"]

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[size="2"]I'm going to make a separate post for my fav W C Fields quotes.  I have this collection and this collection.  LOL.... I just love him.   He had quite a Gin Blossom nose.

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I hope you post more pics of the things you eat and catch.  I love seeing them. 




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[Sily]

Uh oh.... duh at me... I think I just figured out what Mrs. Palmer and five daughters really means......  lol...... :doh:

[AndrewX]

Uh oh.... duh at me... I think I just figured out what Mrs. Palmer and five daughters really means......  lol...... :doh:

Better late than never Sily...lol 

Here's a couple I caught out the front of my place a few months ago.   I get them regularly here at around 10-20lb per fish... but these 2 were something else.  I was shocked when I landed the first one, which was the smaller of the two.  Then 1hour before the Sun came up the second oone came along.  After that I packed it in... I was right.lol:big grin:  Sensational fish these, both in size and table quality... moreso than Snapper, in price too. 

[Sily]

Wow!!!   :eek: 

That kid is probably saying "That's the biggest fish I've seen my whole life."

[DreamTime]

So tell me, Andrew, is that what you have for Thanksgiving - fish instead of turkey? Oh, that's right, you Aussies do not celebrate that massacre. Do you all even have turkeys there?

[AndrewX]

We've got a whopper as our Prime Minister and we do celebrate our very own 'holocaust day' once a year in memory of anniolating an entire race of people from the face of the planet so we could take over their land... we call it Australia Day.

:D