Saintly Fish

Looks yum!!

Looks yum!!

A quick dry brine mix of 1 part salt 2 parts soft brown sugar. Slice the tuna and cover in the mix and leave in the fridge for 30-40 mins. 
 



 


Rince off the mix and pat dry with paper towelling and leave in the fridge for another 30+ mins to form a dry sticky surface. If the surface isn’t tacky it won’t form a decent coating and rather steam in the smoker. Grind some black pepper on some for those who like that. 
Start the bbq charcoal, I  use an electric fire starter, which has the charcoal burning well in about 1 min. 
close the lid and get the temp under control for a 90-100’c smoke. Place a couple of chunks of apple or cherry wood among the charcoals ( not coals ).


 
I use diffusing filters very much like pizza stones over the flame and have the tune placed on a wire rack higher in the bbq. 
leave for around 35mins then remove and allow to cool. I find vacuum sealing a few steaks seems to increase the flavour. 
Only issue was I didn’t have enough tuna, so need to head out and get more.

Cheers Mate. It was actually a good day, plenty of banter and tea and biccies. Andy would have loved it, hundreds of doggies caught between us!!

I'm not going to say "well at least it was nice to get out", because it didn't sound THAT nice. 
Better luck next time mate! 

So, little update, managed to get the dash out, someone has screwed the switch panel in and fitted it right under the cabin ledge, so no chance of removing screws..... After that, I used my vacuum brake bleeder and removed around 120 litres of water that doesn't drain to the bilge. Rained again today so will give an idea of how much rain water gets in to those areas.
Looks like a bit of judicial drilling will be occurring very soon. I want this thing draining properly before it goes anywhere near the sea!!

The First picture is of  Lozz with the first ever  200lbs   common skate caught off a Kayak      second   picture  is of  a old  mate who  id taken up to loch crinan    to see if i could get him a  skate   this is another fish of 200 lbs    third   picture is of Paul   with his first 200lbs   skate   forth picture is     my old mates from up jockland    big Rab   Fin unhooking  and me sat in the back corner   having just caught a 225 lbs  skate   fifth   picture is of me bent into  a  skate  on my own boat  ( seahog seajeep )   and in the last picture  here is the fish      tight Lines Alain        all the fish where  caught  using wind-on rubbing leaders and hook traces i made   

Do you find you always get the same braid or ever noticed the same brand changes at all ? Ive had friends buy ebay braid and been happy with, then bought from the same site and had terrible results. Ive also had friends by what they thought was genuine saltine braid in  1500m spools on obey which you could break with ease. 
Apologies on the earlier post, had a few days in and out hospital which I find frustrating. Still good to see some of your pics. If the pics are too large to post, you can take a picture of them with your phone perhaps and resize down if you have more. Its funny as we are starting to see large skate in my area now, not rays but true skate like what you posted. What's more, one of the deep water investigators recently filmed skate at 3000m deep off the coast here, which was a huge surprise to the researchers. 

Yep another day in the hospital today, a few hassles just now, feeling a grump.

a fool and his money soon part ways        i buy and use  what    ( Works )       if i can land a 200lbs common skate   & 4 lbs of lead  out of 650ft  of  water   using £40  braid for 2000m    then thats what ill use     if i want to fill a tiagra  80w   using  100lbs   Hollow core  that costs me  just over a £100  and  used to land a 550lbs    B F T  then ill used it until the cows come home     many a old car  racing car as beat  the works teams         having said that   im  a YORKSHIRE   MAN  we   well known for  having   long pockets  and short arms        tight lines   Alain 

Oh dear, did you get out of bed on the wrong side today Jon? I don't think Alain was turning it into a "what do you all use" thread. He was just joining in. Like I said, the sufix line is still way too expensive over here, so peeps can't afford that kind of stuff! 

Looks great day out and a feed bream is so good to eat 

Cheers Neil, but I was gonna knock up some LED lighting. Thanks tho.....
Parts ordered today, keel rollers, new winch and strap, tyres and bunk carpet.

Steve, I'm pretty sure I've got an as new trailer light board floating about at home if you want it?

It took me quite a while to get my first bream, Andy was the first with success so I had pressure to perform. Turned out that I had nothing to worry about though with a final tally of 2 - 8 in my favour😎. Although his first was the biggest 
 
Even the boys fished for themselves this time, baited up and everything!! 
 

 
A great bbq was had that evening, we only had butter and lime on the boat, but the fish was delicious!! 
 

It took me quite a while to get my first bream, Andy was the first with success so I had pressure to perform. Turned out that I had nothing to worry about though with a final tally of 2 - 8 in my favour😎. Although his first was the biggest 
 
Even the boys fished for themselves this time, baited up and everything!! 
 

 
A great bbq was had that evening, we only had butter and lime on the boat, but the fish was delicious!! 
 

Do you ?? 
We only ever see your daughters fish!!

Do you ?? 
We only ever see your daughters fish!!

It took me quite a while to get my first bream, Andy was the first with success so I had pressure to perform. Turned out that I had nothing to worry about though with a final tally of 2 - 8 in my favour😎. Although his first was the biggest 
 
Even the boys fished for themselves this time, baited up and everything!! 
 

 
A great bbq was had that evening, we only had butter and lime on the boat, but the fish was delicious!! 
 

It took me quite a while to get my first bream, Andy was the first with success so I had pressure to perform. Turned out that I had nothing to worry about though with a final tally of 2 - 8 in my favour😎. Although his first was the biggest 
 
Even the boys fished for themselves this time, baited up and everything!! 
 

 
A great bbq was had that evening, we only had butter and lime on the boat, but the fish was delicious!! 
 

John   with his fish 
 

the pics on my old camera where too big        the pics on my new camera seem to be ok    and down load on here no problem    just tried   down loading a few old pics   from years ago      all these fish where caught in the ( sound of Jura )      the pic with the kayak lads is me towing them back in after fishing 4 miles   down the loch     ive no idea why   i can down load  pics now      but ive thousands of them     tight lines Alain 
 
 

It took me quite a while to get my first bream, Andy was the first with success so I had pressure to perform. Turned out that I had nothing to worry about though with a final tally of 2 - 8 in my favour😎. Although his first was the biggest 
 
Even the boys fished for themselves this time, baited up and everything!! 
 

 
A great bbq was had that evening, we only had butter and lime on the boat, but the fish was delicious!! 
 

The plan was to hit the same mark we'd had good success on a few weeks ago for stingrays and smoothounds. We had the boys along chauffeuring us to the mark.

Lovely conditions gave a smooth ride out. 

We dropped the hook in less than 3m of water, and with clear vis we could make out rocks, cables, abandoned anchors and even starfish on the sea floor.
What we could not spot however, was fish. No stingrays, no smoothounds, no nothing. Neil had a decent run, typically on a scratching rig, which snapped him off after a couple of minutes. But other than that it was a desert. We moved into slightly deeper water where we rustled up a few bream.

Unfortunately we had a rather negative experience next. Not far from our mark, what seemed like the entire Solent population of WAFI's were having their annual Teddy Bear's picnic, and decided to use Tarlach Too as a marker buoy to see which of them could pass the closest to us. We must have been buzzed by over 10 yachts at least. I lost a rig to their idiocy and several bouts of fruity language was deployed as they passed within a gnat's whisker of us. Truly disappointed by their navigational behaviour.
We decided to head back in, somewhat salvaging the day by a high speed blast back that saw the boys reliving their antics from when they were a good few years younger.



Amazing to see how much they've grown since they first met on board TT, and no matter that they're now almost "too cool for school" they still enjoy a faceful of sea spray on the way back home 😀.
Despite the lack of target fish and poor form from the yachts we still managed a good few giggles and some lively worm-related banter with the boys. Thanks as always to @Saintly Fish for hosting us 👍.

A day out fishing, sounds just great 👍