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First fish of the year!
Yesterday, Kevin and I went fishing. Although we’d gone a couple of times before, it wasn’t in earnest because we knew the fish weren’t there yet. Yesterday, we knew the striped bass were in...
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Livewell and prosper
It all began on Craigslist, which Kevin scans regularly for raw materials for his Engineering Marvels. He’d been on the look-out for a tub to turn into a livewell for the boat and, last week, he hit...
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All fishing, all the time
There are a lot of things that need doing around here. A garden to be prepared, seeds to be planted, bees to be fed, oyster cages to be set up, a turkey pen to be repaired. There are greens to be...
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About a boat
If, like me, you are fascinated with cognitive neuroscience, you have undoubtedly been following the research on happiness. Basically, we’re learning that things we think will make us happy don’t,...
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What to do with a dead fish
I’m looking for suggestions here. I’m not talking about the filets – I know what to do with those. But I need some help dealing with the carcasses. We are overrun with fish carcasses, and it’s going...
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What I did with a dead fish
It was about a week ago that I posted a fish-frame APB. What on earth, I wondered, could I do with all the striped bass carcasses Kevin and I were left with after we stripped them of their filets....
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It takes a fish to catch a fish
The mackerel are going to leave any day now, and I will be sorry to see them go. For the last six weeks they’ve been schooling in Cape Cod Bay, about a mile or two outside the channel that leads into...
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Other people’s fish
It’s been all fishing, all the time around here lately, and I know that those of you who are interested in the garden, the chickens, the turkeys, the pigs, the recipes, or current events can barely...
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Striped bass APB
The spring striped bass season is over and done with. The mackerel have moved on and, with them, the teeming hordes of stripers hanging out to feed on them. There are still bass to be had, but you...
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Bluefish with bacon, onions, and tomatoes
It’s a damn good thing bluefish aren’t delicious. At least, they’re not delicious most of the time. A bluefish has to be treated just so, or it degenerates into a pile of nasty, oily, fish flesh in...
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How to smoke a trout
We didn’t buy our house with food in mind. It was only after we moved into it that we started thinking in terms of dinner. And so we put in a garden, we got chickens, and we built a hoophouse. There...
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Gearing up
This year, we’re going for tuna. Bluefin tuna. Yes, Kevin and I have caught tuna fever. It’s tempting to blame our friend Jon, who, out of the blue, invited us on what turned out to be a successful...
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Go fish!
Do you like to fish? I ask people that all the time, and it’s not surprising to me that lots of people do like to fish. Not surprising, because I like to fish, and it’s never surprising when people...
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Catch-and-release: Yea or nay?
Those of you who come here often – or who fish the waters off Massachusetts – know that the striped bass are in. When I wrote up our fist day out, and mentioned my take on catch-and-release fishing, a...
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Zinc again
There are gaping holes in my knowledge of the world. History is probably the biggest and the most important. In the course of human existence, many, many important things happen about which I know...
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Poor Man’s Lobster Rolls
We should all be suspicious of any recipe called “poor man’s” anything. No good can come of imitating a really good expensive thing with a less good inexpensive thing. Unless, of course, you happen to...
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Putting the DIY in dinghy
It has been hot the last couple of days, and Kevin and I have been spending a lot of time in or near the 110-acre pond that is our backyard. The breeze comes off it, up the slope to our house, and...
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Fishing for glory
We fished in a tournament yesterday, and we lost. The tournament was the annual Ladies Shoal Troll, a benefit for breast cancer research. Only women can fish, although men can (and do) captain the...
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The bottom-dwellers
Do you remember King Friday XIII, from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood? The King serves to remind us both that Fred Rogers was extraordinarily good at crafting children’s entertainment that was accessible...
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Trolling all the way to the Bank
We knew it was a long shot. Kevin and I are determined, this year, to catch a bluefin tuna. We caught one once before, two years ago, but we didn’t really catch it. Our friend Jon took us out on his...
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