OT - What are you doing right now?

nolaegghead

Bringer of Storms?!  More like Bringer of kind compliments and sage advice.  Sheesh.  There goes that "tough guy" veneer.

Canugghead

Cheers Italy

Battleborn

Court appearance. Luckily it is a video appearance. 

lkapigian

20 pounds of Belly going for a 7 Day EQ Cure , then Cold Smoke before it becomes Bacon 

SGH

Tore the sand trout and mullet up 👍

northGAcock

bubbajack said:

Jealous my friend. 

nolaegghead

@SGH - what are you going to do with all that fish?  Sand trout are terrible thawed out.

ColbyLang

nolaegghead said:

@SGH - what are you going to do with all that fish?  Sand trout are terrible thawed out.

Not if you bleed them out when caught. I wasn’t a believer until a guy from your end (Irish Bayou) did it. Hardly a difference between it and specks

SGH

nolaegghead said:

@SGH - what are you going to do with all that fish?  Sand trout are terrible thawed out.

Brother Nola that is one of those long standing fables that is simply not true. We have froze sand trout my entire life. The gentleman in the picture has been freezing them for over 70 years. 

The only thing that causes any issue is if you force thaw them. Then they will definitely become mushy. If you take a gallon bag (or whatever size bag) of frozen sand trout and simply thaw them in the refrigerator you can not tell them from ones you pulled right out of the water and clean and fried without freezing. 

One other thing worthy of mention. As you are filleting them you should immediately throw the fillets in an ice water slurry. They should not be allowed to get warm for any length of time. I think this is where most people mess up. They clean a big pile and wait until they are finished to throw them in icee water. As you cut off a fillet, throw it right in ice water immediately. You will not have any trouble with freezing them if you do this.  

nolaegghead

SGH said:

nolaegghead said:

@SGH - what are you going to do with all that fish?  Sand trout are terrible thawed out.

Brother Nola that is one of those long standing fables that is simply not true. We have froze sand trout my entire life. The gentleman in the picture has been freezing them for over 70 years. 

The only thing that causes any issue is if you force thaw them. Then they will definitely become mushy. If you take a gallon bag (or whatever size bag) of frozen sand trout and simply thaw them in the refrigerator you can not tell them from ones you pulled right out of the water and clean and fried without freezing. 

One other thing worthy of mention. As you are filleting them you should immediately throw the fillets in an ice water slurry. They should not be allowed to get warm for any length of time. I think this is where most people mess up. They clean a big pile and wait until they are finished to throw them in icee water. As you cut off a fillet, throw it right in ice water immediately. You will not have any trouble with freezing them if you do this.  

I knew not to let them get warm, learned something from you about the thawing.  To be honest, we usually just throw them back or eat them first, I've never tried freezing the white trout (what we call them around here).  But I heard they get inedibly mushy thawed, and I also read that on at least one Wildlife and Fisheries page. 

Funny because I read some studies about the best way to freeze seafood is to flash freeze, and it was the freezing that screwed up (popped the walls at the cellular level and released enzymes) vs the thaw.  Probably both are true.

The flash freeze that I know of is basically a super saturated salt bath.

lkapigian

Grinder Plate and Blade Maintenance. 

SGH

nolaegghead said:

@SGH - what are you going to do with all that fish? 

At bare minimum, we can be fairly certain that sand trout anus poboys are on the menu 👍 

Botch

Waffling about replacing my 11-year-old laptop (13" Macbook Air).  Wanted to go with a 16" Pro, but they keep pushing back the release date (I don't need the power, but, let's just say, I have a bigger "lap" that the 13" never rested on very well).  
 
Big price difference ($950 vs (estimated) >$2,400) plus I could replace my newest, but still 9-year-old 27" iMac with just a big monitor (its already giving me the spinning beach ball while watching EweTube) and the macbook Pro.  
 
I mostly don't mind the old laptop (can't upgrade it beyond OS 10.10), but I can't access my bank, Wikipedia, many embedded links, and two news sources cause it to overheat, badly, kick the fans on full-speed, and burn my legs (especially in retirement, where I don't wear pants).  
 
I don't care whether the new Pro has an M1, M1X, or M2 chip, or the new Micro-LED or whatever screen, I just want it here, now, and wide enough to fit my lap.  A cheep 16" Macbook Air would be the Ideal solution, but the Cupertino boys won't listen to me.  
 
Gah.  

lkapigian

SGH said:

nolaegghead said:

@SGH - what are you going to do with all that fish? 

At bare minimum, we can be fairly certain that sand trout anus poboys are on the menu 👍 

I was at the bar the other day when a young lady came and sat next to me , she said " I taste just like a rainbow" I soon found out she meant trout , not skittles 

lousubcap

@lkapigian - any sailor can relate! 

nolaegghead

Reviewing my only Ring notification for the day....

Hmmmmm....good luck fellah, getting where you're going.

https://ring.com/share/fa7962b7-5e0c-40f5-8675-cd7c135e3732

SGH

lkapigian said:

I was at the bar the other day when a young lady came and sat next to me , she said " I taste just like a rainbow" I soon found out she meant trout , not skittles 

You should of told her that while she might in fact taste like rainbow that she smells more like anus. I would of been quick to point that right out to her. 

lkapigian

SGH said:

lkapigian said:

I was at the bar the other day when a young lady came and sat next to me , she said " I taste just like a rainbow" I soon found out she meant trout , not skittles 

You should of told her that while she might in fact taste like rainbow that she smells more like anus. I would of been quick to point that right out to her. 

She said her name was Carmen , she said " I was named after my two favorite things , Cars and Men" she said " what's your name?" I thought for a moment and said " BJ ,  BJ Titsngolf"

nolaegghead

Botch said:

Waffling about replacing my 11-year-old laptop (13" Macbook Air).  Wanted to go with a 16" Pro, but they keep pushing back the release date (I don't need the power, but, let's just say, I have a bigger "lap" that the 13" never rested on very well).  
 
Big price difference ($950 vs (estimated) >$2,400) plus I could replace my newest, but still 9-year-old 27" iMac with just a big monitor (its already giving me the spinning beach ball while watching EweTube) and the macbook Pro.  
 
I mostly don't mind the old laptop (can't upgrade it beyond OS 10.10), but I can't access my bank, Wikipedia, many embedded links, and two news sources cause it to overheat, badly, kick the fans on full-speed, and burn my legs (especially in retirement, where I don't wear pants).  
 
I don't care whether the new Pro has an M1, M1X, or M2 chip, or the new Micro-LED or whatever screen, I just want it here, now, and wide enough to fit my lap.  A cheep 16" Macbook Air would be the Ideal solution, but the Cupertino boys won't listen to me.  
 
Gah.  

Trust me on this: don't buy the intel processor.  Wait on the MBP purchase.  You should go out right now and buy a mini to replace your desktop.  It's a steal at $599.  I would get it with a little more RAM tho.

Botch

nolaegghead said:
Trust me on this: don't buy the intel processor.  Wait on the MBP purchase.  You should go out right now and buy a mini to replace your desktop.  It's a steal at $599.  I would get it with a little more RAM tho. 

Agreed; I want to go 100% "M" chips from now on.  Since my desktop is still working, I'd prefer to wait until a Mini with the upgraded (M1+ or M2) comes out.    Remains to be seen if I end up getting two computers (laptop in the LR for surfing, dedicated desktop for photography work) or shuttle between the two (laziness/cost are the issues).    

SonVolt

Having an argument at work. What would you guys say the biggest/greatest rock band of the '70s was? 

SGH

Enjoying two southern classics. Chargrilled oysters and shrimp and grits. 

Battleborn

SonVolt said:

Having an argument at work. What would you guys say the biggest/greatest rock band of the '70s was? 

Pretty subjective, but I would argue Skynard, The Eagles and Kiss. 

fishlessman

in the boston area i would say aerosmith

Botch

The E-Street Band, Aerosmith, Bob Seger, Heartbreakers, Zeppelin...  Good luck!    

fishlessman

my first car back then  had an aerosmith, a zeppelin, and a j geils sticker on it. must be one of those

SGH

Battleborn said:

SonVolt said:

Having an argument at work. What would you guys say the biggest/greatest rock band of the '70s was? 

Pretty subjective, but I would argue Skynard, The Eagles and Kiss. 

Ki⚡️⚡️and Skynard were my two favorites. Liked the Eagles and Pink Floyd too. 

Battleborn

SGH said:

Battleborn said:

SonVolt said:

Having an argument at work. What would you guys say the biggest/greatest rock band of the '70s was? 

Pretty subjective, but I would argue Skynard, The Eagles and Kiss. 

Ki⚡️⚡️and Skynard were my two favorites. Liked the Eagles and Pink Floyd too. 

Yes, Pink Floyd is amazing. Forgot about them, thinking they were more 60’s but thinking about it, their biggest albums were in the 70’s. 

MasterC

Dark side of the moon. nough said

SonVolt

I was born in '78, the year Queen's Fat Bottom Girls came out, but that's neither here nor there. I just wanted to say Fat Bottom Girls.  I assumed it was Led Zeppelin but some coworkers didn't agree.