Yes more Ling Cod and more Dungeness Crab this past season. About three or four crab fills the two of us up. So they are good size. Bought a dozen Bay Oysters right off the boat this past season. Did them on the Weber half shell with butter and beer. My mate has gotten the deep fry down with the Presto and a mix of Panko and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes for batter. I’ve had good fish in plenty of Oregonian and Nor. California restaurants; but none as good as the girl is doing here at home lately. It’s gotta be good when you can get up the next morning and have it for breakfast right outta the fridge. Acquired an 18’ Center Console in a trade for drywall. Trying to get it sea and bay worthy for crab on the bay and small days outside. Lowel
Yeah Mr… Magoo says that maybe by the Fourth of July I can have a backyard Bar-b-Q without wearing a mask, as long as I "social distance.
Even with the ocean at the end of the street, it’s still hit and miss getting a feed so I converted one of our water tanks to hold hundreds of Redclaw freshwater crayfish about 4 years ago.
With a simple and fast lifecycle, they can go from theses 5 inch youngsters to a foot long in 2 years.
They produce 200-400 eggs every 3 months and I kept the biggest from each batch to use as breeding stock and there’s always a bucket load of smaller ones to eat.
I keep a constant supply of different sizes on different levels of the 5 green pools so I have a constant supply of big ones for dinner.
Boil them up, BBQ, fry in butter an garlic, chop them up in a salad or pasta or put them on Pizza, whatever you like, they taste like prawn/crab.
That’s my recipe.
Truly impressive!
I did a little study recently on Pacific “Spiny” lobster as are found in California, Hawaii and Baja. The “no claw” lobster. I was surprised to find out that they are not related by species to your East Coast “Maine” Lobster. The closest relative and of similar or related species is the Crawdad (aka Crayfish). Believe it or not when I was a kid we would occasionally find them along ditch and canal banks in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Of course my East Texas Mother told me all about them, being that she grew up a hop and a skip west of Louisiana. Saw bags of the for sale in a Winco recently.