The upside of lobster and crab pots

[dylanwinter]

I have been working my way up the Yorkshire coast - and the whole journey from Spurn to Scarborough has been rank with pots and pot markers

I used to fear them but now that I have an outboard and a very slick hull with a kick up rudder and centre plate they hold no fear for me

I like travelling close to the edge and they pretty effectively mark the 7m contour

I was able to get really close in to Flamborough head on the assumption that if there are pots then it is safe for me and the boat

so.... I love em

still can't eat giant marine spiders and scorpions though

we also caught a mackeral - which jill ate - can't bare those either

 

[hartcjhart]

hang on a mo while I plug the puter into the 60inch tele

 

[Yantlet]

Never picked you as being squeamish about what you eat Winter!! Harden up man you don't know what your missing.

 

[dylanwinter]

Never picked you as being squeamish about what you eat Winter!! Harden up man you don't know what your missing.

oh yes I do

tried it all

cod is about as much as I can stomach

D

 

[Yantlet]

I suppose you are a tripe and onions man?

 

[Tomahawk]

We have managed to pull two pairs of mackeral..
Took them straight away to the grill.... like only been dead for tem minutes...

The taste of really fresh fish is something different to any other thing you will eeve eat...

 

[dylanwinter]

smell

We have managed to pull two pairs of mackeral..
Took them straight away to the grill.... like only been dead for tem minutes...

The taste of really fresh fish is something different to any other thing you will eeve eat...

it is the smell that lingers

in this case no grill on Katie L

so she boiled the mackeral in sea water

I took the cook box out into the cockpit for the fish to be cooked there

she professed it delicious

I ate cabbage, green beans and pitta bread with reggae reggae sauce

never thought of myself as a fussy eater

seems that I am

now that I am a Northern sailor then perhaps I should develop a taste for tripe and onions

I have my doubts about the tripe

but onions

onions..... yum yum

D

 

[BAtoo]

I'v eaten many things on my travels & tripe is pretty much at the bottom of the list. In Poland they do "flaczki" which is tripe soup which I've had a few times (one has to be polite....) and on one occasion I almost enjoyed it.!

In Romania they do a tripe soup which is more creamy and quite vile......


The Polish version....

Never had tripe & onions - suspect its a bit like the Romanian soup

 

[2nd_apprentice]

Had tripe soup when skiing in Austria. It was revolting.

 

[Shakemeister]

Sailing so close to steep sided cliffs - that's ballsy!

 

[rotrax]

We are the reverse-I love fish and First Mate cant stand it. Caught loads of mackerel this year on the diving plane and spinner, but only one good one. In fact it was the biggest I've caught for years, almost two pounds in weight.

I cooked it on my home made clip on barbie that takes a cheapo disposable. I took the fillets, rubbed in a little olive oil on the flesh side, salt and black pepper and left them untill the charcoal was white. Four minutes skin side and two flesh side and scoffed with bread and butter-lovely!

I'm allowed to do that, but not allowed to cook fish in the Galley as First Mate says it makes the boat smell.

As a child I have eaten Mackerel boiled in a bucket of seawater on the beach at Selsey Bill. They were good too.

 

[dylanwinter]

it was amazing

Sailing so close to steep sided cliffs - that's ballsy!

as a bit of a birder it was wonderful being right under the cliffs with the gannets and gulls wheeling overhead

D

few more snaps here

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/scuttlebutt/brid-to-scarborough/

 

[interloper]

...

tried it all

cod is about as much as I can stomach

D

I'm glad I'm not the only one. My family is Greek, so this is beyond their comprehension. I explain it by saying that I'm at peace with the creatures of the sea.

 

[ProMariner]

Other advantages of pot markers: provide good tide indicators, handy to tie up the dinghy to for a spot of fishing, and provide an endless supply of fenders and pick up buoys. Also, great practice sessions for getting stuff unwrapped from the undercarriage of your boat, for the rare occasions it is one of your own warps/anchor lines you have to deal with. I could go on...

 

[BAtoo]

Had tripe soup when skiing in Austria. It was revolting.

Yes, it mostly is. The only time it wast OK was when the tripe content was very low and the veggie content high and spicy - but even then there was the unmistakeable aroma of the inside of a cow's stomach......

but my hosts were happy I'd ""enjoyed"" it .....

 

[rotrax]

The Czech's are good at soup- Polevka in their language-and the hot and spicy tripe soup they make is exellent.

My mate ate it when I told him the bits with curly edges were pieces of cauliflower..............................

 

[Applescruffs]

Mrs Scruffs always complains about the smell of fish when I cook it...(I'm a Pisces...so what does that make me?)....scented candles are lit...windows opened and so much 'tutting' that you thought you were in Egypt...well the British Museum at least.

This is the truth.....

I go to the bottom of Scruffs Meadows.....light my trusty Trangia...or 1930's Primus....and fry kippers or whatever as far from the house as poss.

It happened only this morning.

Me ?.....I love it....s'pecialy on a day like today.

I've no problem with the smell of cooked fish....in fact...if a restaurant doesn't smell of cooking....then it probably doesn't cook.

I can Sympathise with Dylan though...

After many years of fishing from the back of my boats and the association of the smell of using mackeral as bait I was put off for years.....

But properly cooked Mackeral , even raw, (ish), ...is now one of my faves.

its a 'fish eat fish' world out there .

 

[Amulet]

I seem to recall there's an old nursery rhyme about it. Think it begins:

Jack Fat could eat no sprat
His wife could eat no greens....

anyone remember?

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I seem to recall there's an old nursery rhyme about it. Think it begins:

Jack Fat could eat no sprat
His wife could eat no greens....

anyone remember?

Jack Sprat could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean
And so betwixt the two of them
They licked the platter clean

Sorry - no link to fish at all!

 

[AntarcticPilot]

I have been working my way up the Yorkshire coast - and the whole journey from Spurn to Scarborough has been rank with pots and pot markers

I used to fear them but now that I have an outboard and a very slick hull with a kick up rudder and centre plate they hold no fear for me

I like travelling close to the edge and they pretty effectively mark the 7m contour

I was able to get really close in to Flamborough head on the assumption that if there are pots then it is safe for me and the boat

so.... I love em

Wouldn't work in the Clyde - I've encountered pot markers in well over 50m of water. And you often see them amongst rocks.