Do you ever buy live seafood?

[BoomerD]

How did you know the bait was fresh enough to eat raw, and wouldn't make you sick as well?

Dude...LIVE bait...still swimming.

It nearly DID make me sick. I HATE anchovies...but it was worth it.

 

[Locut0s]

Dude...LIVE bait...still swimming.

It nearly DID make me sick. I HATE anchovies...but it was worth it.

Shit missed the live part, lol.

 

[silverpig]

I shucked some oysters yesterday that I got from the sea food store. I have also gotten mussels and clams from there as well. They have live crab too although I have never bought it, just caught it myself. Live lobster is also common.

 

[Locut0s]

I shucked some oysters yesterday that I got from the sea food store. I have also gotten mussels and clams from there as well. They have live crab too although I have never bought it, just caught it myself. Live lobster is also common.

Which store? Guess it's been some time since I've looked at the seafood section in a western grocery store, can't even remember what they carry. This is the kind of stuff I see in the Asian food markets:

 

[0roo0roo]

Best fish is live fish, esp for asian style preparation where it is never over cooked.

If you are going to bake/fry the sh*t out of it to make battered fish it doesn't matter.

 

[ahenkel]

If I could I'd buy as much of my seafood alive as possible. Town I live in doesn't really have anything close to a fish monger though. Couple of good old school grizzled butchers but no fish monger.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

at the chinatown here in san franciso they have stores with live frogs and turtles and they prepare them fresh for the buyers by bashing their heads against the edge of the counters or cleaving them open with huge cleavers. theres even a store that sells live birds--chickens, quail, pheasants etc...its actually sort of controversial around here and the merchants are really paranoid. they wont even let people take cell phone pictures inside the stores

 

[spidey07]

Well you gotta throw out some brush piles and make it popular. I build full trees out of PVC pipe and 5 gal buckets with concrete in bottom. Been dumping them for years now...all marked on GPS..also willow trees are good..tie em down with concrete blocks. Crappie is best tasting fish period IMO. Walleye is close but nothing beats crappie to eat or catch since they don't really bite hard. They will tow the line or just barley hit once..About the only time they hit hard like a blue gill that's 1/4 their size is when spawning. Like I said classy fish. But they don't really dig hanging around anything but brush.

Yep. If you're not getting hung, you're not crappie fishing.

If you see that bobber slowly moving back to the cover, that's a fish. That's crappie. And don't yank the hook outta his mouth.

 

[Jeeebus]

always tastes better when you catch it yourself.

 

[BladeVenom]

Which store? Guess it's been some time since I've looked at the seafood section in a western grocery store, can't even remember what they carry. This is the kind of stuff I see in the Asian food markets:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/Locut0s/5099761954_ed8470767a.jpg

Some western markets also carry live fish. http://www.junglejims.com/foodmarket/food-departments/seafood.asp

 

[Zebo]

Yep. If you're not getting hung, you're not crappie fishing.

If you see that bobber slowly moving back to the cover, that's a fish. That's crappie. And don't yank the hook outta his mouth.

I don't use bobbers spidey, straight line 95%, also drag brush, drag bottom bouncing off rocks by eddies under bridges.

And yes retying is normal. But I usually head out with 15 double hooked poles so already GTG I don't have to waste time retying...cuts into my drinking and fishing schedule.

Same reason I have automatic 50lb anchors front and back. You want to move two feet over brush...no problem just push button for rear and front right from captains chair.. no playing with ropes...getting hooks from anchor rope caught in hands ripping flesh away etc. been there done that...

 

[Svnla]

I think most, if not all, Asian supermarkets have a live seafood section in the back. All kind of fishes swim in the water tanks plus live crabs and shrims plus els plus what have you.

I have been to Hong Kong supermarkets in Dallas (W. Walnut), Houston (Bellaire), and New Orleans (can't remember the street name) and smaller stores, and they all have them.

Kinda fishy smelly if you ask me but I guess they have to have that section to compete.

Oh yeah, they all have the butcher section so that you can ask the butcher to cut the meat per your request, unlink American stores with the pre-cut plastic wrapped meat.

 

[zerogear]

Yes, but fish preparation is a bitch

 

[Wyndru]

Lobster. I enjoy watching them boil alive.

 

[Svnla]

I've cut chunks out of tuna and wahoo while they were still flopping on the boat. Does that count?

I just sent your post to PETA, you are in big trouble now, mister. :biggrin:

 

[spidey07]

I just sent your post to PETA, you are in big trouble now, mister. :biggrin:

Lulz, but clubbing them or just tossing them alive into the ice box is just fine though, right? How about bleeding them out alive?

 

[ElFenix]

Lobster. I enjoy watching them boil alive.

lobster is better split and grilled with basil butter

 

[spidey07]

lobster is better split and grilled with basil butter

I like the sound they make when you drive the knife through their brain...it's sorta a "waaa" CRUNCH and their legs stick straight out.

 

[Zebo]

I just sent your post to PETA, you are in big trouble now, mister. :biggrin:

Fish are cannibals. When I run out of minnows I'll cut a crappie up and bait hook. You have to make them bite though...little line movement or they have to be really hungry but still works.

Best way to catch those nasty catfish is throw all the crappie carcasses overboard hooked. I could catch 400 lbs of nasty catfish if I wanted.

 

[Locut0s]

at the chinatown here in san franciso they have stores with live frogs and turtles and they prepare them fresh for the buyers by bashing their heads against the edge of the counters or cleaving them open with huge cleavers. theres even a store that sells live birds--chickens, quail, pheasants etc...its actually sort of controversial around here and the merchants are really paranoid. they wont even let people take cell phone pictures inside the stores

Wow, neat reminds me of Asia.

 

[spidey07]

Fish are cannibals. When I run out of minnows I'll cut a crappie up and bait hook. You have to make them bite though...little line movement or they have to be really hungry but still works.

Best way to catch those nasty catfish is throw all the crappie carcasses overboard hooked. I could catch 400 lbs of nasty catfish if I wanted.

Not necessarily true. Many/most baitfish eat plants/algae, which is why they don't get very big.