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[3dogs]

Deer are the problem here. Have had many near misses when deer have run across the road in front of my car. Actually had a deer run into the passenger side of my one week old car while driving 60 mph on a major highway at 4 AM while on the way to go Albacore fishing. It was too dark to see what damage had occurred so continued on and went fishing. The early start was because we went offshore about 45 miles. Fishing was great, and when I got back to my car I found there were no dents and the only damage was some "rub" marks due to the coarse quality of deer hair. The deer also seemed to be no worse off as it immediately ran back off the road.

On the Navajo reservation horses would stand on the paved road at night - to enjoy the heat that had accumulated on the road during the day - and graze on the grass on the unpaved edge. Coming around curves and suddenly seeing a horse in your headlights was cause for a change of underwear! Also, my sister totalled her Volvo on a country road, and the cow she hit fared no better. The farmer appeared immediately, butchered the animal on the road and took the meat home, and sent my sister a bill for destroying the cow he ate for the next several months.

WE face heavy fines for allowing stock on the road.
Cow.....Ooch!

Albacore, come to within a mile or two of our SE Coast living in vast "pools" of warm water that move around that area in spring and summer. We chase them mostly on 12lb line as few we see exceed 65lb with the odd one to 75lb most run between 20 -30lb. A real fun fish and excellent tucker........their flesh smokes real well ( for @The Hat.... we use large sheets of butchers paper to roll them in ...Ciggie papers are far too small time for us )

 

[websnail]

... and the award for the worst joke ever goes to...!

 

[Tigerman]

This is bug thread, how can things being uʍop ǝpᴉsdn

 

[3dogs]

... and the award for the worst joke ever goes to...!

I resemble that remark Sir!!

 

[The Hat]

This is bug thread, how can things being uʍop ǝpᴉsdn

I posted this in another thread and I reckon I should have put it here instead, even now things still seem a bit backwards, or is that forwards, orrrr...

http://www.printerknowledge.com/thr...ation-and-submissions.9937/page-12#post-84767

 

[fotofreek]

WE face heavy fines for allowing stock on the road.
Cow.....Ooch!

Albacore, come to within a mile or two of our SE Coast living in vast "pools" of warm water that move around that area in spring and summer. We chase them mostly on 12lb line as few we see exceed 65lb with the odd one to 75lb most run between 20 -30lb. A real fun fish and excellent tucker........their flesh smokes real well

Albacore, being warm water fish, usually stay off shore of the San Francisco area in the 80 mile range. Warm currents coming up from the south are that far off shore normally. Party boats do go out for them when they come a bit closer. The 43 foot boat I shared with a friend was very sea worthy, but we preferred to stay a bit closer in. When we had "El Nino" conditions, however, the warm currents came in much closer and we were able to fish for them 30 to 40 miles offshore. We were OK with that. Our boat wasn't that fast, and we often have offshore winds that kick up in the afternoon that make the ride home unpleasant, so we'd go very early and wrap it up before mid-afternoon.

The "El Nino" years also brought some of the fish that prefer warm water much closer to our shore. We'd be fishing for Salmon up to 5 miles out and get what we called a "mack attack" - Mackeral would hit our lines and tangle them all up. We also caught a few small Ocean Sun Fish that normally didn't come up from the south as well as a few small Barracuda, much to our surprise.

I've smoked nearly every variety of fish we catch in this area. Salmon is the most popular for smoking, but Sturgeon was fabulous, and the striped bass was very delicate and nutty in flavor when smoked. And yes, the Albacore was just great. AND --- I agree that the Zig-Zag cig papers were entirely too small for the amount I'd smoke!

 

[3dogs]

80 miles out suggests that the continental drop off is much further out there. At Bermagui ( a place Zane Gray fished whilst here) it is only 17 miles. We get/ got out there in 18 foot open boats, often with minimal navigational aids and VERY little margine for error. Shipping passes within 5 miles of the coast here. The afternoon windchange gets us too, but the lure of big fish can be strong. There are wahoo dolphin fish, big yellowfin and marlin available all chasing the baitfish...striped tuna little mackrleral and the like. Sudden encountets with giant turtle or semi-submerged containers was a constant risk when travelling over big waves on big swell days.
But that just added to the fun at the time.

 

[stratman]

I agree that the Zig-Zag cig papers were entirely too small for the amount I'd smoke!

I saw what you did there, fotofreak. Bad boy!

 

[Emulator]

Nothing from @3dogs since Tuesday, he must have gone fishing.

 

[The Hat]

I also lean towards @Emulators idea, I haven’t done any fishing in over 40 years and now find the local fish market on the quay here has everything that I need caught daily, I'm not into smoked fish..