What a week! I don't think I've been this tired since I finished my masters!! I've been meaning to post, but just haven't had the energy... Also, I'm just going to try to finish up the Belize trip by the end of Oct, so here is a rather large posting all about our fishing adventures on the cat.
Our first catch of the trip was this lovely spanish mackerel...
...which turned into 5 lovely fillets for us to bread, fry, and eat.
Then, after a misadventure with a cormorant who was lured by our lure, we took a stroll outside the reef into the deep ocean. We spotted the amazing sight of a feeding frenzy, what Horace believed to be tuna (yum) but we lost it when we turned the boat. However within 10 minutes, Horace was shouting FISH ON! FISH! Zeth took up the pole and started reeling... At first, Horace believed our catch to be a barracuda (no one was thrilled by that), but then in a leap of pure joy, Horace shouted WAHOO!
None of us knew why he was so excited as we still thought we were reeling in a barracuda, but if you read this wiki entry about the Wahoo, you will understand. After the confusion cleared, and Horace threatened Zeth with throwing him off the boat if he lost this fish, we reeled in this 40 lb beauty of a Wahoo.
According to Horace, this is some of the best eating the ocean provides, and we proudly declared to any other boat that came in contact with us that we were dining on Wahoo that night.
Back inside the reef, Horace scaled, cleaned, and sliced up our catch. We got approx 20 steaks of this size and quality from this fish. We couldn't eat it all, so every time Horace ran into someone he knew, we gave away some Wahoo steaks. People loved us!
For our first meal, Horace layered a 9x11 with our steaks, and covered them with veggies and some sort of tasty broth.
With a side of rice, this was the second to best meal we ate on this trip.
The best was when we rubbed Belizean Jerk Spices onto the Wahoo and grilled it on our little charcoal grill. It was so good, that after this shot, we forgot to take any pictures of it!
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That looks like so much fun!! and very tasty...
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