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Just awesome Bunk, as usual! For a "haphazard" year it turned out amazingly well.

And there is almost a solid quarter inch of ice now on the shore of Loughborough!!!

Doug

Absolutely, positively, freakin' INCREDIBLE.

I did three double takes when I saw the boat and open water.

Unbelievable.

and AWESOME. Well done!!!!

Doug

(wishing I still lived down that way reading this report...............)

back to m2b2.....................check your e-mail, buddy!

Doug

OK I am back at home again after a few months on the road (hunting and fishing my way to the West Coast and back).

Rick I will mail you a bunch of tackle, inbound e-mail coming at you.

What happened to the FOOD thread, by the way?

Doug

The plot thickens on the cod. It's apparently smoked. I am to steam it for no more than 8 to 10 minutes, so I'll give that a go when I try the first fillet.

HH

or make fish and brewis, Brian might have a recipe.......

This has nothing to do with cooking, but I am on a long road trip and keeping a blog. I have been unable to post pics to the blog that OTHER folks can see. Trying something here...

http://imgur.com/H82EQHr

OK at least that provides a link, but it does not SHOW the picture. Back to the drawing board.......

My niece lives in Prince Rupert and made a stop at my place a couple of weeks ago on her way to a three week trip across Europe. She over-nighted here at my place in Toronto and when she opened her luggage here at the house, half he bag was filled with frozen, vac packed fish.

She has been in "the Rupe" for a number of years and has be-befriended a number of First Nations folks. Many are fisherman and have invited her to go out and fish with them. They eat fresh seafood as often as they like.

So, her little care package contains;

-15 pounds of Pacific Halibut

-a number of Chum Salmon fillets

-half a dozen Pacific Black cod

The Halibut was simply delicious, prepared with my own coating. I have yet to cook any of the Cod, could use some advice on a good recipe if anyone has one!

HH

Buddy in Campbell River on Vancouver Island cooks his cod battered and deep-fried.

Doug

Pretty soon it will be snow machine to get in there................

That soup would have been VERY welcome a few days ago. I was up in the mountains near Fort Steele BC on an elk hunt and we had heavy frosts most nights. One member of our party shot a nice 6 x 6 bull elk, so eventually I will have some elk meat. It is my favourite of the antlered game, by far.

Tonight I am back in the camper in Greenwood BC along the Crowsnest Highway. Next hunt is up the Athabasca River for whitetail deer and black bear, in less than two weeks.

But NO halibut, and NO elk for yours truly this trip, guess I will just have to do this again.........

Doug

Rick, any muscle meat is fine. You want it lean, ie no fat, and you don't want much gristle so the shanks would not be very good. Any non-gristle stew meat would be just fine.

And for your crew you'd want to can it in one litre jars, seven at a time.

When you get your moose meat we can chat over the phone about spices etc etc.

Doug

Rick, a standard canner load would be nine jars the size of the one I gave you, and that would take about fifteen pounds of boneless fatless moose. If you have a gas stove or an older model, but NOT a ceramic top stove, you could up-size to a double canner. The weight of a double is too much for a glass or ceramic top stove.

Doug

And canned moose for an afternoon snack!!!

 

Why Doug? Why?

 

WHY DID YOU ONLY GIVE ME ONE SMALL JAR?????

 

thats my type of eats right there! Sooooo good!!!!

 

Thanks a million!

Yes indeed and did I already tell you the smoked sturgeon was delicious!!!!

When you get that moose meat this fall I will talk you through the canning.

Doug

backatcha, Rick! It was really nice to put a face to a name and shoot the breeze, And yes we had some of the smoked sturgeon last evening for an appetizer, it is DELICIOUS!!!!!

Sorry we did not get a chance to do some cooking and FISHING,,,,,,,,,,,,, next time!

Doug

Three man lift.............

Metal roofing is pretty darned heavy, will you need to barge it in, or wait until next year's ice road? Or ?????????

I said it before and I say it again, AWESOME!!!!!!!

Doug

Aren't you supposed to have a safety rope on it if it isn't through bolted?

If that thing had been roped on, it probably would have come back around and smacked him in the head.................

...............but when I had smaller outboards, for sure, I used to have them securely attached to the boat with a strong cable and locking padlock - against loss and theft both. Of course, well-prepared thieves just bring heavy-duty bolt cutters.

Now THAT would ruin your day...........

There are no flies or bugs up there anyways.............

Next for a set of firefighter turnout gear, helmet, oxygen rig...............

double tap

Pray for northwest winds and heavy rain...............I watched the fires popping up every day around Great Slave Lake when we were there a few summers back. You would go past a bay and everything was normal, return an hour or two later and the whole hillside would be on fire, it was absolutely apocalyptic. Good luck, Dave!

Doug

Little more productive day today. Still as hot as yesterday but there's a good wind and some clouds to knock down the killer rays.

 

You gonna have a square dance there for 16 people??????????????

"Take your partner, dosy doe........."

scuro2, you are giving sage advice.

And as Bunk now knows (about me), we older anglers are less ABLE to do the stuff we did when we were in our prime. No matter how good the water, I can only handle so many hours a day. That amount is less if it is hot and sunny. No such thing as 16 hour days, and a week of them would be signing a death warrant for this old codger.

so yes, make hay while the sun shines. And you only live once.

Doug

 

 

Not much in the humidex here.

Just lots of sun with no pollution to cut it down.

Plus there's that whole, hole in the ozone thing.

It's not really all that hot temp wise but the sun is very intense up here because of the clear air.

Lack of wind isn't helping either.

No forest fires? When I was up there a couple summers ago, you couldn't BREATHE without inhaling freakin' smoke!

Sounds like we are sending our heat out there Dave.

Humidex today was about 40, stinkin' hot................