trolling or mooching (for salmon)

yo....I used to Fish Lake Merced in my yut (youth)...and the old timers there (mostly Filipinos) used to mold power bait with bagoong (stinky shrimp paste) to catch monster trout  

....and it worked  

You must know some Filipinos in order to know that stinky stuff

Chuck - either Josh is married to a Filipina OR he lives in Daly City.

My wife is filipino, so pretty much every day on a weekend that I'm not fishing, I'm at Lolas house learning about wierd things they eat.  They go nuts for nice fried rockfish fillets, but then they go back to stewed milkfish.  Once I brought back a bunch of jacksmelt and they thought I'd hit the motherload of milkfish.  Another time I jigged up a bunch of mackeral down south and they cooked up my bait.  *shh*  

I had my parent visiting once and I came home to some adobo'd squid.  I asked my dad where he got the squid.  He got it out of my freezer.  I looked him in the eye and told him he just cooked my bait.  Good thing it was food grade squid as I bought it at the Ranch 99.  Tasted good too!

-Allen

that's classic!  

I remember my (Filipino- non-fishing) buddies had a surprise bday party   for me (early 20's)- it was held at the fishing pier under the San Mateo Bridge (it's now closed - some one was stabbed to death and they never found the killer(s)) We brought a shopping cart with us - for all the firewood,bait,food,drinks and sleeping bags - cause we decided to spend the night at the bridge. So, we set up camp   at the very end of the pier and baited our lines with squid (the one's that are NOT for human consumption) Anyway, I fell asleep ....I wake up....all the food is gone   ....the shopping cart was turned over and used as a make-shift grill...they had a fire going and were roasting the squid bait....and eating it.   (Because they were not really "fishermen"- they did not know any better) I never laughed so hard....and to this day - they never found out WHY I was laughing so hard.  True story!  


ohhh...we ended cathing a few batrays and sharks