Les
--- Thomas Lee <tom_agww@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Great story Les,
>
> Here's a fantastic recipe for cooking that next
> wahoo:
>
> Yer gunna need a fishpot (you know, the long kind
> for boiling) Most wahoo are too long so after
> fileting, cut it into a managable size and par boil.
> That is put a filet in cold water and heat it until
> there is only a ring of bubbles beginning to work
> around the filet.
>
> Remove it from the pot (it's suppose to have a
> handled tray to keep it whole) and (here's the good
> part) coat the top of the filet with bearnaise
> sauce. Find a recipe in a good cookbook and follow
> carefully. Take the filet and put it into a BBQ
> with a cover. Use mesquite or whatever is available
> for that special smokey taste. Keep an eye on it
> and wait for the sauce to get golden brown. No need
> to flip it. This may be the best thing you've ever
> put into your mouth.
>
> A friend of mine said my bernaise would work on
> dog poo but I'm not persuing that one.
>
> This recipe also works for mahimahi, yellowtail,
> fresh albacore, and seabass types. Enjoy!
>
> Tom
>
> Leslie Saulibio <leke0513@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I normally work on Saturday. Because we
> are west of
> the international dateline, our days off are Sunday
> and Monday, to coincide with days off Saturday and
> Sunday with the folks in Huntsville AL. But, this
> Saturday, yesterday, I decided to take off and go
> fishing with my fishing partner Paul Allas. I had
> been scheduled for work on Monday on a special
> project, so Saturday off seemed like the thing to
> do.
> As it turned out, Paul's bathroom plumbing broke,
> and
> the plumbers were coming in at 12:30, so he couldn't
> go fishing. So I called Dr. Tom Jack and helicopter
> pilot Scott Davis, who replied that they would go
> fishing with me. We arranged to meet at the
> Kwajalein
> Small Boat Marina at Noon, rent a Twin Vee, and fish
> for Wahoo and Tuna. I got there at Noon, and neither
> of them were there. Some friends of mine, Dave and
> Barb Doeries were there taking some TDY folks out
> fishing for the afternoon. They offered me a spot on
> the boat, but I declined and told them I was waiting
> for Tom and Scott. By 12:20, they were leaving the
> SBM when I got a call from Tom and later Scott,
> saying
> that they couldn't go fishing. One of the Chopper
> pilots had an emergency and Scott had to go to work.
>
> Tom got called in to work over on Ebeye, at the
> hospital where he is the part time administrator,
> besides his regular job working for the US Dept of
> Energy (The folks that take care of the Marshallese
> affected by the Nuclear Testing in the 50's. I
> should
> have gone out with Dave and Barb. By 12:30 they had
> entered the Pacific Ocean through SAR Pass and begun
> trolling using two 14/0 Penn Senators and two had
> lines. 4 minutes into trolling, they hung into a
> Black Marlin. If I had gone fishing with any of
> those
> guys, guess who would have hung into that fish? By
> 1:00PM, they landed the fish and radioed the SBM
> that
> they were returning with the catch. The asked if I
> had left (which I hadn't) and had them ask me to
> wait
> so I could clean the fish for them. Don't that just
> add salt to the wound? They came in 15 minutes later
> and weighed in the fish at 149 lbs. Put the marlin
> on
> the stainless steel table, and I started cutting on
> it. Then they left the fish with me, and went back
> out to fish so more! Now, that's rubbing the salt
> in!
> I cleaned, gutted, cut, and bagged the marlin into
> 30+ gallon sized bags. Each gallon ziplock bag had a
> three to four pound chunk of fish meat. The head and
> bones were taken by Marshallese working there. The
> tail, entrails, and sawed off bill went back in the
> water to feed the sharks and crabs. Although it was
> the right size and was very edible, I didn't take
> any
> fish. Instead, per their instructions, I gave most
> of
> it away to anyone that wanted. I did take 5 bags
> over
> to my wife's work place to give to her friends. She
> said I was stinking! Well, Hello! Blood all over my
> shirt, sweating in the afternoon sun, the only one
> to
> clean the fish...who wouldn't be smelly? I suppose
> it
> did seem sort of inappropriate dress to be in the
> accounting and payroll department. But the boss
> there
> was very thankful for the fish as she had a party to
> potluck for that night. She didn't care what I
> looked
> or smelled like. Come to think of it, the other
> folks
> didn't care either....only the wife.
>
> So to summarize: Sad because: I didn't get to go
> fishing, somebody else caught the fish probably
> meant
> for me, then asked me to clean it, which I did, and
> my
> wife said I was smelly. But I have a good sense of
> humor, so I had a good laugh at myself!
>
> If they send me the picture, I will post it.
>
> Les Saulibio
> Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
>
> PS: When they came back in later, they had caught 4
> wahoo and 4 Mahimahi. There absolutely ain't no
> justice in this world!
>
>
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