Or at least learning more about fishing. Neither Tom nor I are currently fishing people. We know little to nothing about it. We like to eat fish. However now that we are living aboard, opportunities have started presenting themselves for us to start to learn to fish. I previously post about those opportunities - net casting, shrimp and crabs.
Awesome cruising chick Christy of s/v Hello World recommended the book "The Cruiser's Handbook of Fishing" by Scott Bannerot and Wendy Bannerot. If you pop over to their web site s/v Hello World, you will see that they are having some luck with their fishing/shrimping/crabbing lately along with breathtaking cruising locales and fabulous adventures. Thanks for the recommendation Christy! The book is written specifically for cruisers by cruises. It's very comprehensive. You can read all the way through it or simply turn to specific topics. I chose to get the physical paperback book vs Kindle version because as a reference book, I thought that might be easier to grab on the fly when we needed it. Can't you just see it now.....we finally snag our first fish while tolling underway and one of us reads out loud while the other follows the instructions to land it. HA! What a sight that would be. Anyway....wish us luck.
We have the same book. (On Tim's Kindle). Good book. That and some local advice on how to set up a trolling line from the stern.
ReplyDeleteHowever, we've never put any of it to use yet. The boy is a little squeamish when it comes to the cleaning the fish part.
--Kim
And cleaning the fish on board can be a mess all the way around.
ReplyDeleteOh fun! Glad you got that book - it is awesome. That's the book we always break out when we happen to catch something and have to remember how to kill it and filet it (our book is kinda bloody these days) :) Good luck!!!!
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