08-04-2011, 01:52 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Most of my "career" involved sales, marketing, business development, etc. But I offer only the info I have on fishing and let others make their own misguided decisions.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Albacore are like footballs...round and torpedo shaped. I used to cross-cut mine into chunks for freezing. I also filleted them and either froze sections of the whole fillet or cut the fillet down the middle...lengthwise...to get 4 "tenderloin" strips. These can then be cut into small steaklets of the width you prefer for the recipe you are using.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I never did go out on the charter boats or use the local fish processing facilities. I always went with friends from Salem and they had the boat and freezer facilities. But I am sure there are fish processing plants there to freeze your fish. If you are driving you can just take a large ice chest and buy some dry ice for the trip home.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A couple of reasons why we did not put in as many hours as some of the others. We did not get sea sick. I have never been sea sick but both TubeBabe and I took pre-trip meds to help prevent it. No problems. The arrangement is that you get 1/2 day guided fishing, with a guide from the lodge to assist you in running the boat, finding fish, etc. That can be either morning or afternoon. If our time was in the morning, and the water was not unmanageable, we went out. But if it got sloppy we did not go back out alone...even though I am fully competent to handle the boats. And, on two mornings we were out TubeBabe either developed "other" requirements to return to the lodge or the weather became suddenly nasty.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Most of the other folks on the trip had been there several times before and each had their own GPS system with accumulated waypoints for best fishing. Didn't need that for salmon but for halibut and rockfish it is a necessity. A few yards off the spot and you may as well be back at the lodge and not fishing. We were given suggestions for fishing by ourselves but all the water looks the same out there and it is easy to be way off the mark...especially when the water looks like a mountain range.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In truth, we had our limits of salmon by the second day and our limits of halibut and most of our rockfish by the third day. We made good use of the time we had on the water. But on a cost per hour of fishing basis it was pretty expensive.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If you are concerned about getting sick you should check out the little patches you wear behind your ear. A couple of "queasies" in our group wore them and had no problems.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Albacore are like footballs...round and torpedo shaped. I used to cross-cut mine into chunks for freezing. I also filleted them and either froze sections of the whole fillet or cut the fillet down the middle...lengthwise...to get 4 "tenderloin" strips. These can then be cut into small steaklets of the width you prefer for the recipe you are using.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I never did go out on the charter boats or use the local fish processing facilities. I always went with friends from Salem and they had the boat and freezer facilities. But I am sure there are fish processing plants there to freeze your fish. If you are driving you can just take a large ice chest and buy some dry ice for the trip home.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A couple of reasons why we did not put in as many hours as some of the others. We did not get sea sick. I have never been sea sick but both TubeBabe and I took pre-trip meds to help prevent it. No problems. The arrangement is that you get 1/2 day guided fishing, with a guide from the lodge to assist you in running the boat, finding fish, etc. That can be either morning or afternoon. If our time was in the morning, and the water was not unmanageable, we went out. But if it got sloppy we did not go back out alone...even though I am fully competent to handle the boats. And, on two mornings we were out TubeBabe either developed "other" requirements to return to the lodge or the weather became suddenly nasty.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Most of the other folks on the trip had been there several times before and each had their own GPS system with accumulated waypoints for best fishing. Didn't need that for salmon but for halibut and rockfish it is a necessity. A few yards off the spot and you may as well be back at the lodge and not fishing. We were given suggestions for fishing by ourselves but all the water looks the same out there and it is easy to be way off the mark...especially when the water looks like a mountain range.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In truth, we had our limits of salmon by the second day and our limits of halibut and most of our rockfish by the third day. We made good use of the time we had on the water. But on a cost per hour of fishing basis it was pretty expensive.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If you are concerned about getting sick you should check out the little patches you wear behind your ear. A couple of "queasies" in our group wore them and had no problems.[/#0000ff]
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