Fish for Dinner on New Years

We always have seafood for New Years - no different this year

More Fish for Dinner and a New To Us Grocery Store

This was lunch on Saturday - pompano. We bought these at the "Seafood City" store near our house. And they were imported - we've caught these on the East Coast. Noe said "I like the way Lola cooks it better". She still ate it up ;) Here's some other pictures from the store. We'll definitely be adding this place to our list of places to get groceries (La liked the cleanliness especially - but ensemadas didn't hurt either).

Snorkeling Hanauma Bay for Marlon's Birthday

Yup - Marlon wanted to go snorkeling Hanauma Bay for his Birthday (I still wonder whether Noe influenced him on this decision somehow...). For most of the trip, La was the camera operator - Lots of fun and tons of fish that made us hungry!!!

Dinner in Washington State

Looks like La and the kids ate better than I did - by a long shot

The Dungeness crabs were locally caught, and the uku came from someplace tropical.  Boy does that look real good!

Sunday Morning Teaser

Went trolling on the offshore boats today. While we were waiting, I checked out the morning party at the marina pier. Several different types of fish were hanging out. I saw the following:
- Threadfin (Moi)
- Bonefish (only one)
- Darts
- Yellowstripe Goatfish
- Flagtails
- Parrotfish (the one that has befuddled me)
- Yellowfin Surgeonfish
- Bluefin Trevally (Omilu)

I should have brought my flyrod...

The rest of the day

Came back from trolling and cleaned the fish we caught.

Ate some BFT as sashimi and poke.

Went fishing again (shoreline - with tenkara pole) and caught my first pompano! Just a small guy but good fun especially on the tenkara pole! Also caught a dart (but let it go).

I hooked up a parrotfish three times - the same parrotfish - and it broke me off three times. I am going to have to figure out another rig to catch it with....

Monday Night Dinner

Self explanatory.

Delicious. Especially the parrotfish - light delicate and when cooked with butter and salt, especially delicious. Did I say that already?

I ate this guy to the bone - perfect dinner!

La - you would have loved this!

Gyotaku Technique

An intermediate stop for the two fish I kept to eat on their journey from the end of a fishing pole to the grill (and then my stomach).

I sought wisdom from my Gyotaku Master - Bong. He graciously obliged and within a couple of hours, I learned the ways of the sumi ink fish printing (even though I started before he did, he has clearly been kicking my @ss - see one of the recent posts) dudes.

We prepared and printed both the parrotfish (on the table in the pictures) and the papio. Well, he prepared and printed them - and after screwing up a bunch of times, I finally produced a successful print.

Practice totally makes perfect when you are talking about gyotaku. And fishing. And cooking (next post)

Marina Dock Fishing, Round Two

Actually, before we went back to the Marina late this afternoon, I went fishing at the O'Club Beach. I caught two triggerfish on squid/spinning gear. Lots of people there - and some good bonefish were taken.

But - the better part was going back to the Marina. I brought the Tenkara Ito out and used one of the Takayama Sakasa Kebari flies. I cheated a bit by putting a small piece of squid tentacle on the hook. Then I looked for some fish hanging around the dock. I dropped the line and after a few slow jigs, I hooked a decent sized fish. Not having a reel to bring in the fish made the experience completely different. I let the rod fight the fish and eventually I brought it to the surface - a parrotfish!!! What a blast!!! Seeing as how I can't cast a conventional flyrod for 54!t, I may just bring this along for some shore fishing.

Steve pulled in a bonefish and was saying he had other hits. At that point I baited up the spinning rig and after casting a few times, I caught a Trevally (Papio)!!!

So taking all the fish I caught (and released those I did not want for food), I had a trifecta of fish I have not yet caught (the Manini Tang, a Parrotfish and a Trevally).

Today's total: Three Darts, One Manini, Two Triggerfish, one Parrotfish and a Papio. Not bad (and way fun!)

Awesome fishing day, even if it was raining the whole day! Did I mention the Parrotfish is La's favorite fish to eat??? There are few things that make her mouth water the way fried parrotfish does... stay tuned -