A memory that will last a lifetime

[Swoop]

Still a few fuckwits around who will carry on catching fish well past what they need & can share.

I'm still concerned about the retarded fuckwits I see sitting in their tinnie, reeling in SERIOUS amounts of undersize fish and only reluctantly putting a few back in the sea {when they know they are being watched}.

I really need a .50 mount on the boat.

[george formby]

I'm still concerned about the retarded fuckwits I see sitting in their tinnie, reeling in SERIOUS amounts of undersize fish and only reluctantly putting a few back in the sea {when they know they are being watched}.

I really need a .50 mount on the boat.

A high pressure deck hose carries less of a prison sentence. Heh, heh. I found out that some commercial fishermen really give a shit about fish stocks & have a great way of getting there message across.

[Swoop]

A high pressure deck hose carries less of a prison sentence. Heh, heh. I found out that some commercial fishermen really give a shit about fish stocks & have a great way of getting there message across.

Makes a change.
It wouldn't take much water to affect the freeboard on some heavily laden dinghies in the Auckland harbour.

[DMNTD:Me]

Onya man for allowing it to live

[The Reibz]

I'm with you on undersized fish, I seem to catch nothing but undersized snaps every time I go line fishing. Pretty much gave it up years ago and took up freediving fulltime as my means of gathering.
I mainly shoot kingis, a 20kg fish feeds ALOT of people. It also takes a long time to clean, prepare and cook. The last one took me nearly 2 days to smoke (some cunt needs to fab up a bigger smoker I think...)
I have a mate the chases marlin and hes taken about 5 of the from the sea in the last 2 years, it costs around 600 - 800 to get one smoked and bagged if you fillet and steak it yourself (Requires a machete)

I have seen a boat come back to a ramp once and get checked by NIWA which had 60 kahawai onboard between 4 anglers. Highly stupid, it would take atleast 5 hours to clean all those fish and thats way more than anyone needs. I just dropped off 4kg ok Kahawai fillets to the old lady for her smoked fish pie, and that was only 6 fillets (these things were fucking monstrous). Snapper aint the only fish in the sea but its the easiest to catch on a line, worlds hardest fish to spear though. Don't get into spearing if your expecting to get loads of snapper because you simply wont.

Heres our catch from sunday though, all this fish went to a good use and was consumed either by humans or animals (my dogs a hungry little cunt when I get back from trips)

[george formby]

Nice mixed bag. Another thing I enjoy about spearfishing, variety of catch. Dory, Butterfish, Black Snapper, Crays, Mussels, Paua, Scollys and the usual suspects. Great way to get a feed.

I use an oil drum (Elf) for a smoker. Cut length ways & hinged. Big hole at the bottom, little hole at the top. I can get Ti tree burning slowly at one end on a bottom rack & two racks the size of the barrel above. Will do 8 - 10 split fish at a time. 1 to 3 or more hour smoke. Started using oak from wine barrels for a change. Will do 25kg plus Kingies with room to spare & temperature is low enough to keep in all the juices. Old galvanised steel pipe with a threaded u bend makes an excellent chimney. Screws straight into the wee hole but needs a brace to stop it flopping about.

I love living here!! Nom, nom, nom.
Oh, a sploosh of maple syrup in the brine. Gawd!!

[The Reibz]

I really really want to build a cold smoker. Got plans made up its just a matter of forking out for the materials and putting it together.
I use a small warehouse job which tends to last about a year before it needs replacing. Cost 40 bucks and I welded a small BBq burner into it instead of using the meths tray.

[Banditbandit]

I really really want to build a cold smoker.

Just to make you feel jealous .. I have one of those ...

[george formby]

I'm thinking of making a cold smoker out of a wine barrel. Remote fire box, flued into a coiled copper cooling pipe which goes into the base of the barrel. Cheap round bbq racks to hang the fish off. Top of the barrel will either have a tall flue to create enough draw or I might go 21st century & put a small fan in the lid to extract the smoke through. With a speed control, one o'them dimmer light switches prolly.
I've just wired up two old computer fans to draw air into my wood burner from the chimney rather than through the gaps round the windows. They run off an old bike battery. That's what I was thinking of doing for a smoker.
Oh, to use as a hot smoker I would just put a bit of pipe straight in so the smoke does not cool.
Very keen to cure & smoke my own hams. Mmmmmmm.

[The Reibz]

Smoking meats other than fish would be awesome. Probably why I should build one. It all seems realitive, the more buck you spend the better result your going to get. I got a mate whos dead keen on getting me into deer stalking this year, do people smoke venison?

[george formby]

Smoking meats other than fish would be awesome. Probably why I should build one. It all seems realitive, the more buck you spend the better result your going to get. I got a mate whos dead keen on getting me into deer stalking this year, do people smoke venison?

Oh yes! In Scotland we used to get hind quarters cold smoked for 2 or 3 days then hung for 3 months or so to air dry. That's it, just slice a bit off & eat. Smoked venison Carpaccio.
Only problem here is it's too warm. In Scotland the game huts are up in the hills & it's bloody freezing for months! You would need to ask your friendly local butcher if you could hang it in his walk in chiller.

[HenryDorsetCase]

NOW you bastards are making me hungry.

I do like to consume all of the above. I'm just saying.

Any of you guys ever made any jerky? I was given some venison jerky once it was great. very chewy but delish.

[Blackbird]

NOW you bastards are making me hungry.

I do like to consume all of the above. I'm just saying.

Any of you guys ever made any jerky? I was given some venison jerky once it was great. very chewy but delish.

Yeah, got a good recipe. I don't air dry it though as we have a dehydrator...... cheating I suppose but comes out really well.