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Gulf Fishing For Good Egg Eats

TheEgg&I
TheEgg&I Posts: 16
edited November -1 in EggHead Forum
Friend has been asking me to go out on his boat. Yesterday I DID IT !! What a great time and beautiful weather. Always cooler on the water. We "buttered up" as my friend (captain) says to avoid sun burn.

Slow day on the water, according to the captain. He was disappointed, but I was thrilled with the weather and what I brought home, no matter the size.

I caught flounder, sea bass and grunt. I did not get a grouper (sigh).

We were roughly 10 miles out. Here we are at our farthest point from Anclote Key Park, where we set sail. See the white dot? Our boat ramp.
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Anclote Key sand bar. You must boat here.
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Here is what you saw (or didn't) in the first picture. The power plant
near the Anclote Key Park boat ramp.
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Cleaning the flounder. Flounder is an odd fish which at birth has
an eye on each side, but later one eye moves to other side and the
flounder then swims, instead of upright, one side down. The bottom is
white and the top (now with both eyes) is somewhat chameleon appearing
as the bottom of the gulf. This fish very thin........hard to filet. Flounder.jpg

One of the sea bass. Seabass.jpg

Sea bass over flounder carcass. DSC00634.jpg

Sea bass top, flounder left, grunt bottom. DSC00635.jpg

Plated. The flounder lightly breaded gets a smoked, hot paprika drizzle. Sea bass in butter dill & capers. Grunt I suspected was awful tasting. Very fishy. So I made a Tortuga rum sauce, which turned out pretty well. Tortuga rum is strong !!
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  • TheEgg&I
    TheEgg&I Posts: 16
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  • FlaPoolman
    FlaPoolman Posts: 11,677
    Nothing beats a good day on the water
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  • Gulfcoastguy
    Gulfcoastguy Posts: 6,706
    I just scale, gut and behead the flounder then bake them in a tomato and shallot sauce wrapped in foil. Haven't done it on the egg yet but it out to be the same.
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  • Jerzee
    Jerzee Posts: 84
    Looks like fun and the meal looks even better!

    Where did you get those half-moon cast iron dishes?
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  • dugdbug
    dugdbug Posts: 244
    That is a great adventure. But look out for pirates! :laugh:
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  • ibanda
    ibanda Posts: 553
    Looks like a great meal! I am a fan of Catch 'n Skillet myself, much tastier than catch 'n release, and then going to the grocery store! I have wade fished in the ocean, but haven't been out in a boat. Looking forward to it sometime.
    "Bacon tastes gooood, pork chops taste gooood." - Vincent Vega, Pulp Fiction
    Small and Large BGE in Oklahoma City.
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  • Sea2Ski
    Sea2Ski Posts: 4,088
    wow... that flounder is small. Don't they have size limits down there for the ones you can keep? Up here it has to be at least 18 inches to keep. Get caught killing a small one like that it is I think $200 per fish.

    Not ragging on what you caught. I can not tell you how many I caught that size or smaller....
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    Burning lump in Downingtown, PA or diesel in Cape May, NJ.
    ....just look for the smoke!
    Large and MiniMax
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    Caliking said:   Meat in bung is my favorite. 
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