4th of July cabin trip

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Surely, no doubt!! I'll try anything once, well...



Never had any! I'm not a huge fish fan. I grew up loving the 'cheesewich' sandwich from Arthur Treacher's!! Lobster never impressed me, I like crab a little more, and a love shrimp cocktail!! As for fish... maybe fluke or flounder. Most of the time I prefer fish to be deep fried. My wife makes tilapia which isn't so bad.

Here the grocery market in WalMart has wild caught salmon frozen(at least it did months ago). Salmon to me is ten times better than talipia.
And Salmon is very, very healthy to eat too. I have Riza bake mine to avoid the deep fry unhealthy negatives, but deep fried it tastes great.
Any great restaurant offering fish usually has Salmon on the menu. -Tyr

[Loralei]

Nice pictures you shared there, NightTrain.

[Abbey Marie]

Surely, no doubt!! I'll try anything once, well...



Never had any! I'm not a huge fish fan. I grew up loving the 'cheesewich' sandwich from Arthur Treacher's!! Lobster never impressed me, I like crab a little more, and a love shrimp cocktail!! As for fish... maybe fluke or flounder. Most of the time I prefer fish to be deep fried. My wife makes tilapia which isn't so bad.

In the meantime, go to a nice restaurant and order Salmon! You won't regret it.

I doubt you will see a fried version, though. That would be a waste of an excellent fish.

[BJ_WA]

There are some recipes for fried salmon but one must be careful. I like it rare, too, especially fat slabs of Tyee.

Leftover salmon in wonderful in scrambled eggs, omelet, frittata or cold sandwich.

[Gunny]

This is Frost, Sharon's German Shepard, waiting for me to throw a stick for her. She's a great dog and is hell on wheels when it comes to chasing off bears. But she's getting old now, and her hips are really slowing her down... I have to lift her into the truck and into the boat these days.

My buddy Lee in the background fishing.

I like the dog. Who's that ugly guy though?

[NightTrain]

I like the dog. Who's that ugly guy though?

That's Lee, a friend of mine. He went to high school with my little brother... pretty solid guy, has done quite a bit of hunt Guiding around the State and he knows what he's doing. His only shortcoming as an outdoorsman that I can see is his lack of river running expertise... I've taught him the basics, now he just needs to get out there and beat up his boat to complete his education - the hardest lessons are the best ones, you know. After he spends a few miserable hours dragging his boat inch by inch back to the deeper water to float it, he'll become much more cautious about gravel / sand bars.

Not to mention buying a new impeller and sleeve for his jet unit, those pricey little items reinforce those lessons nicely! Everyone has to go through it though, just part of the drill.

[NightTrain]

Farmed raised Atlantic salmon should be available in any super market in New York. I read, recently, where it is the salmon most chefs like to use because it's quality and price is relatively constant. With that said, you can't beat a salmon caught in Alaska or the Pac NW. I smoke cook salmon in a Weber with alder or plum for smoke and make a mustard and dill sauce for the side. I'm not much for rubs on salmon either. In the next few days I'll book a trip to Wesport for salmon and rock fish. I'm about out of the local canned tuna and need some canned (and fresh) crab, as well.

According to all the 'fish snobs', the farmed salmon is not nearly as good as the wild salmon... and of course, the commercial fisherman all rail against farmed salmon.

I've got a Model 700 .300 Win. Mag. my uncle gave me for college graduation. It's taken a moose but not by me. I loaned it to a friend who shot one in Alberta with it. The moose was excellent eating, too. I think I'm passed moose hunting now. :-)

On Saturday when Lee and I were buzzing down the river in my boat, we came around a corner about 2 miles below the cabin and caught a moose swimming across. We could have spanked it on the ass with a paddle as we went by, unfortunately I was too busy steering around it to get a picture of it next to the boat and Lee was unprepared as well. That .300 Win Mag is a great rifle, it's taken a few moose. When my deceased brother's youngest son is of age, that's going to be his rifle.

My brother flew for K2 in the 90's, BTW. He may have flown you. I know he said he flew a lot of Japanese and especially Japanese news crews on the Iditarod.

Nope, I missed him, then. Last time I flew with K2 was to Sockeye Lake from Talkeetna back in the late '80s. Pretty stand-up outfit though, and they have a solid reputation for good equipment and excellent pilots.