CoffeaRobusta
10-05-2007, 02:02 PM
The dog told us to try hooping at Seal Beach last night. Seriously we asked her to choose between Balboa, HB, and SB and she chose SB. Well we get out there after dinner around 8:00 and fish and hoop. Slow on the fishing and slow on the hooping but did manage a to catch a shorty halibut in the hoop net! Also caught a halibut and staghorn sculpin on the rods. Was ready to pack it up and on the last pull came up with a legal bug (about 1/4 inch over legal) with a nice sized tail. Woooohooo! I haven't handled a lot of lobsters yet (count 'em 2) and I had a hard time hanging on to him with all that tail flipping but managed to get him into the cooler. Little bugger even drew blood on me with the spines on his antenea. This was at about 1:00 AM. Guys farther down the pier where hooping too and caught a 4" rock crab. Mmmmmmm...crab.
By the time we got home it was near 2:00 and I had to work the next day. MY GF won't let me kill em by boiling them alive but it seemed really hazardous to stick a knife in them while there thrashing all about. Put him the freezer for 15 minutes but he was still pretty active. So I just left him in the freezer for three hours and when I got up for work I put him in the fridge. He wasn't frozen through yet. But I plan on cooking him up tonight.
MY GF is pretty sensitive so I am looking for the safest and most humane way of killing a bug without spoiling the meat. Any suggestions?
This guys lobster is so docile compared to the one I had!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT0xWoXV6xI
By the time we got home it was near 2:00 and I had to work the next day. MY GF won't let me kill em by boiling them alive but it seemed really hazardous to stick a knife in them while there thrashing all about. Put him the freezer for 15 minutes but he was still pretty active. So I just left him in the freezer for three hours and when I got up for work I put him in the fridge. He wasn't frozen through yet. But I plan on cooking him up tonight.
MY GF is pretty sensitive so I am looking for the safest and most humane way of killing a bug without spoiling the meat. Any suggestions?
This guys lobster is so docile compared to the one I had!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT0xWoXV6xI