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1st November 2012, 07:08 PM
#11
Garfish
Years ago while driftnet fishing a Garfish would get caught in the drift net and it would finish up in the frying pan.
After eating the fish twas said that if you baked the bone in the oven then ground it into a powder it worked as
a aphrodisiac.
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1st November 2012, 09:32 PM
#12
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2nd November 2012, 12:58 AM
#13
Brian they are great fish Mackerel to eat when smoked, i have a little smoker here i made and cook a lot of my fish in the smoker nothing like it, beautiful.
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2nd November 2012, 05:09 AM
#14
, I kept a pair of wings from one but like verything else they got lost over the years.
JOhn Albert Evans.[/QUOTE]
So it looks as if you will not become an angel then!


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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2nd November 2012, 01:58 PM
#15
flying fish
As a boy fishing on Southend Pier, we fished for Garfish, used a float with a 3 or 4 foot trace one hook, when caught they were very lively, leaping out of the water, and hard fighters, never eaten one,

Tony Wilding
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2nd November 2012, 03:02 PM
#16
Not a flying fish
This is one I really did catch earlier, around 1959, it was in Georgetown British Guiana before it became Guyana. The bait was the remains of a leg of lamb. We sold it to the locals.
shark.jpg
John Albert Evans
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2nd November 2012, 04:13 PM
#17
Fresh fish
Hi shipmates thanks for the information "Garfish cooked in milk is very good" never seen that fish ashore .?The fish for breakfast caught by myself "bantry bay " on hand lines were mackerell rainbow colour so fresh they jumped in the pan cooked in butter {irish} the very best. The sea water was clean and green in them days loads of fish.
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2nd November 2012, 09:55 PM
#18
Nice pic Brian. Don't know why the pic's don't expand.
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3rd November 2012, 01:36 AM
#19
After eating Mackerel caught only hours befor, you would never buy from a shop again, tastes so different.

Tony Wilding
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3rd November 2012, 04:59 AM
#20
Went passed our local Chinese fish shop tonight, saw a sign, 'Flying tonight".


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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