Little Chief Electric Smoker

Dirty but works great. Comes with 5 racks, 2 pans, and a spare heating element. This will make amazing hot smoked salmon.

Local pick up in San Mateo.

$60

We are doing a family trip to the Ecuadorian Amazon in October, and I will have a chance to do some fishing. Any recommendations on what to bring?

I was down there many years ago but was clueless and hadn’t planned for fishing, so the piranhas kept chewing me off. I finally solved that by making a bite leader out of a chain of safety pins.

Glad to hear you are recovering. It is nice to read your posts here.

Crispy salmon skin on the outside, kimchi and cauliflower soaked in salmon grease on the inside. Delicious.

I thought I saw a note about a paddle kayak that runs as fast as a Stealth at a much lower cost.  If I recall, I think KPD mentioned that?  I forgot the alternative paddle kayak was, maybe KPD can chime in.

Not I. Maybe Charles who commented earlier in this thread?

I've been experimenting with pressure bleeding and I am impressed so far. I normally clean salmon on the water, but last weekend it was rough and I was close to home so I bled them but didn't clean them.

When I got home I used a clean garden sprayer (only ever used for water) with a pipette tip and a salt solution. You can see the blood that came out of an already-bled fish, and how there is almost no blood in the meat when cut.

Obviously you want to be very careful about the cleanliness of the water you are bleeding with since it will permeate the meat.

Totally fine to have barbed hooks on board.

But once you have salmon in possession, you can no longer fish with barbs, even if you are "fishing for lingcod".

I would favor removing specific regulations for striped bass so they would just fall under the default bag limit of 10 fish with no size limit. The small ones are the lowest in mercury, after all. Unfortunately, there is a very vocal contingent that opposes any loosening of size or bag limits for striped bass.