Seafood delight

[bazonbeleza]

Considering the huge amount of the population living within easy reach of the sea, very little has been said on the site about the availability of sea food.

Walk on the beach at low tide to find razor clams, get yourself a lobster, crab or eel pot and supplement you diet with fresh seafood.

In faro, a bucket and trowel and half an hour on the mud banks and I have half a bucket of clams, add a bit of garlic, some butter and white wine, a fresh loaf, et voila, a meal for better than you can get in a restaurant.

Mussels, even oysters are easy enough to obtain, just stake out some old tatty rope between the high and low water marks and within a short period it will be populated by mussels.

I also get a lot of harbour Mullet lurking around the yacht, so lean over, boing and the speargun gets me lunch, uber fresh, a couple of those beauties, sea salt, pepper and a brushing of oil, thrown on the barbecue still twitching, delicious, the best fish you've ever tasted. Guaranteed.

In the UK as kids we used to go shrimping, just shove a net through the top inch of sand and catch loads. ok, many are way too small to peel, so don't, just boil for a minute, throw them into a blender with some salt, tomato puree and cream, and make a shrimp Bisque. a great starter for your mullet.

I know there is a lot of talk on the forum about the pro's and cons of air rifles, shotguns, bows and crossbows, but you've all overlooked the humble spear-gun, cheap as chips, deadly effective and the provider of many a free meal for myself and friends.

I realise the purist will howl should you spear a brown trout in a stream, but hey, its food and I'm not looking for entertainment but food!

[pseudonym]

Being landlocked in Lecestershire, I do miss really fresh Seafood. I have to put up with the fishmongers.

Mussels in cider in the woods a couple of weeks ago:






I do however relish the trip down south to visit my Mum and sister when I can indulge in the odd bowl of jellied eels and a dozen or two of oysters.

[#crabman#]

Hi,
I totaly agree with you that the sea offers a wealth of food, I am a shellfish fisherman myself & i have provided my family with a wide veraity of sea food for many years!
I two think more people should use this as a source of food!
we are having freshly caught cod for tea tonight .....you can't beat it!!

[PreppingPingu]

In bygone times our hunter-gather ancestors used the sea and the shoreline as a main source of food! The archeaological record is full of camp fires and midden piles of sells all around our current shores and in the drowned shorelines from before the last iceage melt. Just be careful of our nasty modern day polution and you'll be ok. Yum yum.

[Malamute Mitch]

Top post Baz, I was just about to do a post, ‘Last minute Bug out location’ lol,

So a quick add to baz’s excellent post,

If anybody is not ready for TEOTWAWKI and things get dicey, get a well equipped bug out bag, buy about forty kilo s of rice and forty kilo ‘s of pasta per person and head for a secluded bit of rocky coast. This is by far the easiest location for survival with minimum equipment and supplies. Will do a longer post on this in a few days.

Well pseudonym love the recipe and the zebra can, did a similar one a few weeks ago on the new dining room table a la carte Mitch style , umm did I mention I’ve got a cressi pneumatic speargun.

[pseudonym]

Lovely Mitch. Salivating here

[Malamute Mitch]

Thanks mate even washed my hands before I went to the table

[Hepworth]

Considering the huge amount of the population living within easy reach of the sea, very little has been said on the site about the availability of sea food.

Walk on the beach at low tide to find razor clams, get yourself a lobster, crab or eel pot and supplement you diet with fresh seafood.

In faro, a bucket and trowel and half an hour on the mud banks and I have half a bucket of clams, add a bit of garlic, some butter and white wine, a fresh loaf, et voila, a meal for better than you can get in a restaurant.

Mussels, even oysters are easy enough to obtain, just stake out some old tatty rope between the high and low water marks and within a short period it will be populated by mussels. Yes sir. You're right in most respects but, grey mullet? I've fished in quite a few countries and in every one the grey mullet was regarded as "unclean" due to it's diet of raw sewage. (The again, needs must as they say. I just wouldn't)

I also get a lot of harbour Mullet lurking around the yacht, so lean over, boing and the speargun gets me lunch, uber fresh, a couple of those beauties, sea salt, pepper and a brushing of oil, thrown on the barbecue still twitching, delicious, the best fish you've ever tasted. Guaranteed.

In the UK as kids we used to go shrimping, just shove a net through the top inch of sand and catch loads. ok, many are way too small to peel, so don't, just boil for a minute, throw them into a blender with some salt, tomato puree and cream, and make a shrimp Bisque. a great starter for your mullet.

I know there is a lot of talk on the forum about the pro's and cons of air rifles, shotguns, bows and crossbows, but you've all overlooked the humble spear-gun, cheap as chips, deadly effective and the provider of many a free meal for myself and friends.

I realise the purist will howl should you spear a brown trout in a stream, but hey, its food and I'm not looking for entertainment but food!