Monterey Salmon 4-29-17: Non-Yak

Made it out on Saturday morning with my buddies Jeff and Manuel.

Have been out with Jeff several times now, and it is always a pleasure to get to hang out with him, and to get to be on his beautiful 41 foot Riviera. 

Manuel is a good friend whose wife works with my wife, and he works for North Monterey County Fire so if you ever get in trouble in that area he will be there to help you out. 

We got on the water at first light and it was a beautiful morning, and there were whales all around.

Worked between Monterey and Moss, between 130 and 160 FOW, combo of blue died chovies and purple haze hoochies about 100 feet down on the wire.

We lost 4 fish and were starting to get that skunky feeling, but then right at 1130am we finally boated a nice one!

Reset the lines, circled around and 15 minutes later had another one in the box!!

By this time Jeff's brother Martin was anchored off Del Monte in his Sailboat, the wind had picked up, and we were thirsty, so we headed over and side tied up with him and chilled and kicked back for awhile.

Jeff took one fillet off the bigger fish, and gave me the rest of it and Manuel took the other slightly smaller fish and he shared it with his compadre and with the guys at his fire house.

It was a great day with good friends, and I was amazed again at how AWESOME fresh Salmon tastes!!

Scraped the carcass for sashmi "scraps" and ate that Saturday night.

Sunday my brother in laws came over and grilled the collar for them, baked a big piece of the fillet, and served them some pretty pieces of the buttery sashimi. No pics of these dishes cuz they ate it as fast as I could serve it. 

Monday I had a few more scraps of sashimi for lunch and the belly cut for dinner.

Today I have the baked head for lunch, and will do the carcass for dinner.

Feel very fortunate to have been able to get out and chase and harvest these amazing fish!!

 

Sincerely,

Jim

 

Today's lunch.

 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Good action!  WTG. 

Awesome Jim.
I could related how you eat your salmon. I am pretty much the same, I eat every parts of it except bones and scales.

 

the sashimi scraps are the best! I was lucky enough to get some fresh the week before and did the same thing with the "scraps".

congrats on a great day out there Jim!

Wish I have friends who invites me to fish with him on his boat    Thanks for the report and pictures Jim.

Awesome fish!  It's nice to have a friend with a boat... even nicer to have a friend with a boat that has a stripper pole in the galley. 

Thanks guys!!

Just devoured the head...SO GOOD!!

 

 

Sincerely,

Jim

Nice report, Jim!  A yum yum one too

Good shit Big Jim ! I could relate to the creaminess of The fresh king Salmon sashimi. I cut some out of the belly of the fish that I caught and it just melted in your mouth.🤙

Jim. Stop suffering so much while eating salmon. I will be smoking some of tiff and zacs halibut for gs11

Nice work, Jim.

Sashimi scraps... I'm not sure if that's brave or stupid. Either way, I'm sure it was damn tasty!


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This page has inspired me to be a little more creative with preparing. I might also sashimi some up.
 
Alex

Nice share


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