Natural History

Posted in wildlife | Tagged fishing, trotline | 9 Comments

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1. on May 3, 2010 at 9:40 pm Laura

   My grandpa was a game warden and he loved to fish. I can remember being really impressed with some of the catfish he caught on a trot line– they were so big he had to hang them in a tree to clean them. But, they were really fatty and had a fishy taste, so I didn’t like to eat them.

   For a long time I spent every Saturday night with my grandparents, and he would come in from fishing with a mess of bass. He’d clean them and grandma would fry them up in peanut oil and nothing in the world tastes as good, except catching some red fish offshore, coming in and frying them up.

   I haven’t had bass in 20 years and I can’t even think about Grand Isle and redfish without tearing up.

   Great video.

   
   
2. on May 4, 2010 at 10:06 am shadygrove

   Laura, do you mean red snapper? We used to fish them off shore when I was young. Nothing tastes better.

   
   
   • on May 4, 2010 at 11:19 am Laura

     According to wikipedia, redfish and red snapper are the same. All I know is you have to measure them before you can keep them and they fry up yummy!!!

     
     
     • on May 4, 2010 at 11:21 am Laura

       Wait, I didn’t read carefully, it’s a red drum. In Trinidad and Tobago it’s a southern red fish.

       
       
       • on May 4, 2010 at 11:31 am shadygrove

         I gotcha. We only fished for fresh water drum. Snapper we caught off the offshore oil rigs.

         
         
         • on May 4, 2010 at 11:35 am retrieverman

           Guess you won’t be catching snappers any time soon, unless you like them a little oily.

           
           
           • on May 4, 2010 at 11:40 am shadygrove

             LOL! and “sigh”. Alas, I have not fished in the Gulf since I was a young girl. Hopefully there will be something left for my girls…..

             
             
3. on May 4, 2010 at 2:16 pm cyborgsuzy

   They need a bigger bucket.

   
   
4. on May 5, 2010 at 8:24 am George

   I’m impressed with how easily the hooked catfish were handled. Also I have skinned catfish the same way but certainly not as efficiently. My pliers kept slipping. This video was great!

   
   

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