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Northern Boy

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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 12 1:24 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Pasta with crab sauce for tea. And the debris has gone in the freezer to become a bisque at some point.
I'd like to have a heroic fishing anecdote but Jamanda just bought the crab at the fishmonger in Barnstaple this morning.

You could just make one up. Would seem appropriate for a fishing anecdote.

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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 12 1:31 pm Post subject:
There were quite a few pieces of spider crabs on the beach this morning, and a rather lively velvet swimmer that seemed to want me for dinner. I did manage to catch a fish in the sea with my bare hands though, put him back as he was only an inch or two long.

Northern Boy

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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 12 1:53 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

There were quite a few pieces of spider crabs on the beach this morning, and a rather lively velvet swimmer that seemed to want me for dinner.

I did manage to catch a fish in the sea with my bare hands though, put him back as he was only an inch or two long.

How are you getting on with the shrimp net? We bagged hundreds last month, but were really disappointed with the taste.

sean
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 12 1:55 pm Post subject:
I think that prawns are more worth the effort than shrimps. IMHO. I'm going to change my spider crab story and claim that Jamanda won it in a knife fight. Hah, beat that with your nets and kayaks.

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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 12 2:38 pm Post subject:

Northern Boy wrote:

Treacodactyl wrote:

How are you getting on with the shrimp net? We bagged hundreds last month, but were really disappointed with the taste.

I've not used it since I last mentioned, the weather's been a bit too 'orrible to get out much and I've been rod fishing. I caught a mighty 8 inch bass the other day, swiftly returned of course.

Knife wielding teachers are always a danger down here though.

jamanda
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 12 2:38 pm Post subject:

Northern Boy

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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 12 2:43 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

I think that prawns are more worth the effort than shrimps. IMHO.

I'm going to change my spider crab story and claim that Jamanda won it in a knife fight. Hah, beat that with your nets and kayaks.

My kayak is in fact the hollowed out skin of a Great White Shark that I killed with my bare hands (knives are for wimps). I wove the blood vessels of the shark into a net which I then used to catch the crabs. Using the sharks brain as bait.

jamanda
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 12 11:36 pm Post subject:
Well how ever it was procured the spidercrab pasta sauce was very good - and we discovered that this year's batch of chillies are rather good and that's with them them still green!

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