ditchcrawler Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 I am very fond of swan though it tastes a bit like owl. I have heard that said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrose Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Pike is ok but very bony Agreed, it's ok - not great. Far too many small bones so it's difficult to enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sampeeter Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 Fish eating depends on your taste. I will prefer with soft and moist skin fish to eat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pquinn Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 I wouldn't eat fish from anywhere let alone out the cut. I wouldn't eat anything that swims around in its own poo. I am very fond of swan though it tastes a bit like owl. Doesn't a swan swim around in its own poo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenataomm Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 Doesn't a swan swim around in its own poo? No the queen's manservants (menservants?) lift them out when needed so they can poo in canalside allotments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulG Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 ..... At midnight I started to possess it..... Sounds like a scene from "The Exorcist". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkHez Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 I once recovered a small Roe Deer that had apparently died from a RTC. Took it home, gutted it and hung it in the bathroom. After a few days the stink was intolerable and the bathroom continued to stink long after I disposed of the carcase. A friend that I go shooting with hit a deer a couple of months back, it was near as dammit completely destroyed by the impact, and when he got out of the van to inspect damage (and to see if there was any meat worth taking home) he said the stench was unbearable straight away - possibly something ruptured inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onionbargee Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 I know what goes in the water....no thanks. ( I put some of it in there ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northerntrades Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Sorry this is going to be off topic. I went down to the canal last night and found a young buck that had been run down quite recently so when we went to the boat I grabbed some gloves and bin liners and bagged it up and took it home. At midnight I started to possess it. I only managed to save the front leg joints and neck meat. I also kept the "cape" wich is the pelt from the shoulders up. Im hoping to turn that into a head mount. The horns were small only about 5-8" in length. And it weighed close to 50lb. So my question is, any good deer recipes? What was its tripe like - any good?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamm Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 I am very fond of swan though it tastes a bit like owl. :v I heard one can legally take and eat EELS from the UK waterways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerra Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 :v I heard one can legally take and eat EELS from the UK waterways. I am no fisherman but this website says any eels caught other than Congers must be released alive. https://www.gov.uk/freshwater-rod-fishing-rules/fish-size-and-catch-limits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamm Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Eat Conger Eel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerra Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Eat Conger Eel Yep but you will need to be on the coast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northerntrades Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 (edited) I am no fisherman but this website says any eels caught other than Congers must be released alive. https://www.gov.uk/freshwater-rod-fishing-rules/fish-size-and-catch-limits Eels are becoming extremely endangered and rare. I recall seeing them killed as 'pests' on occasion - similar to the way pike were/are demonised by idiots who don't have a clue about how nature works. Just looked at your link and am amazed to see that it's permissable to take up to '15 small fish up to 20cm (8")' - why would anyone want to remove such small fish that have almost certainly not spawned?? And surely even fish have a right to life??? Edited February 26, 2015 by northerntrades Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasboater Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 I take back everything I said about tripe. I was thinking tongue and said tripe. It was the tongue that was pretty good when prepared by Vera's mother. Tripe I've only seen in menudo, Mexican soup, and I usually try to avoid it. I've see. it in Mexican butcher shops and it's actually kinda cool looking - but then so are caterpillars, but I wouldn't put either one in my mouth. Menudo prepared well is delicious......used to be a regular Sunday Morning breakfast.......It's a well known and much revered Texican Hang Over cure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Ambrose Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 :v I heard one can legally take and eat EELS from the UK waterways. Er no, to take eels you need a license and I'm not sure they are being issued due to the extremely rapid decline in the eel population.I knew 2 eel fishermen quite well when we moored on The Broads and they both had to find other employment because catches declined to just a couple of kilos a day. Worth mentioning that when I first met these guys they would lift there nets early morning before any boats were on the move and come back with upto 400kg. The eels were kept live in hessian sacks hanging in the water till "The Dutchman" came in his lorry equipped with large tanks of oxygenated water, the poor little buggers were then whisked away to their doom. I felt sorry for them. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patty-ann Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 When I was young the local lads used to catch eels and sell them to my nan for bit of pocket money.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northerntrades Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 When I was young the local lads used to catch eels and sell them to my nan for bit of pocket money.. Quite a delicacy eh Patty-Ann? Mmm - slimeyI Once hooked a big'un whilst night fishing. I looked like I was suffering from a seriously bad cold after returning it to the water! Wish I'd known your nan was dishing out dosh for em - I'd have been quids in!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerra Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Quite a delicacy eh Patty-Ann? Mmm - slimeyI Very tasty but not jellied IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 So what has caused the recent rapid decline in the eel population? Surely catching them commercially has all but died out. MtB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark99 Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 (edited) So what has caused the recent rapid decline in the eel population? Surely catching them commercially has all but died out. MtB No one has nailed it. "There is a suite of threats that have been implicated in causing the decline in European Eel recruitment and stocks: barriers to migration – including damage by hydropower turbines; poor body condition; climate change and/or changes in oceanic currents; disease and parasites (particularly Anguillicola crassus); exploitation and trade of glass, yellow and silver eels; changing hydrology; habitat loss; pollutants; and predation. The impact of these threats individually or synergistically, are likely regionally specific; however, more broadly, climate and ocean currents have been suggested to play an important role in the survival and transport of the leptocephalus larvae and recruitment of glass eels to coastal, brackish and freshwater habitat. Further research is required to fully understand the complexities of this particular aspect of the eel's life history but there are conflicting opinions as to the degree, if any, which oceanic factors contribute to broad fluctuations in eel numbers." I caught one at midnight once, it weight 5lb and 1/2 oz and scared the living daylights out of me. Edited February 27, 2015 by mark99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northerntrades Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 No one has nailed it. "There is a suite of threats that have been implicated in causing the decline in European Eel recruitment and stocks: barriers to migration – including damage by hydropower turbines; poor body condition; climate change and/or changes in oceanic currents; disease and parasites (particularly Anguillicola crassus); exploitation and trade of glass, yellow and silver eels; changing hydrology; habitat loss; pollutants; and predation. The impact of these threats individually or synergistically, are likely regionally specific; however, more broadly, climate and ocean currents have been suggested to play an important role in the survival and transport of the leptocephalus larvae and recruitment of glass eels to coastal, brackish and freshwater habitat. Further research is required to fully understand the complexities of this particular aspect of the eel's life history but there are conflicting opinions as to the degree, if any, which oceanic factors contribute to broad fluctuations in eel numbers." I caught one at midnight once, it weight 5lb and 1/2 oz and scared the living daylights out of me. It's a fact that humankind is usually at the bottom of most ecological disasters declines and extinctions and as your post suggests, it's rarely due to a single circumstance. Yet many people persist with their delusions that the world is too big to be damaged by mere mortals and of course, climate change is just a devise to justify price increases. So not to get too 'off topic' with this already 'off topic' subject I'll revert back to the bit about what fish can and can't be eaten - the only freshwater fish I've ever eaten is trout. And even then, my rule was that I had to be either camping or boating before I would kill a fish. It was my way of alleviating guilt but now I don't eat any fish other than shop bought for Isn't our wildlife under enough pressure already? The bland tasting perch or roach that we might take could well be the difference between life and death for a starving heron or otter etc. The eel that I (literally) tangled with wasn't quite that big Mark99 but don't they fight like the very devil? So you see Patty Ann, it's all your nans fault!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 I caught an eel once by haccident once. Feckin' staggered by the amount of slime and it's resistance to being removed form my hands. And it's resistance to being slaughtered. (I was about 15 at the time and it was regarded as responsible to NOT put them back.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerra Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 I caught an eel once by haccident once. Feckin' staggered by the amount of slime and it's resistance to being removed form my hands. And it's resistance to being slaughtered. (I was about 15 at the time and it was regarded as responsible to NOT put them back.) We used to cut the head off and stab them in the tail. There is a large nerve ganglion there which controls much of the movement. I have seen a headless eel make it to the bank and swim away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul's Nulife4-2 Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 (edited) If Seafood is considered Healthy and good for you, Why are Whales so Fat !. I've been lucky enough to have a few fish caught off the boat now and again, I'm certainly no fishermen, but me and Charlie have had many a free meal. 14 inch Sea bass FillitsFillets and a 36 inch Pollack - https://www.dropbox.com/s/sx8kfwz6ndnygve/IMAG0494.jpg?dl=0 I get a lot of Sea bass https://www.dropbox.com/s/p7s1upspophnpo2/IMAG0535.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/hnw8h6nexezxigs/IMAG0531.jpg?dl=0 Huss - https://www.dropbox.com/s/vvn2ke3sszgltkt/ IMAG0589.jpg?dl=0 I get a lot of Huss Here is another 3 - https://www.dropbox.com/s/aorhfnn7g88ruwa/2014-06- 29%2012.30.47.jpg?dl=0 I forgot what this was - https://www.dropbox.com/s/tjoyxs7dhq6zfsf/IMAG0668.jpg?dl=0 Mmmmm Edited June 9, 2015 by Paul's Nulife4-2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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