Oysters or no Oysters?
 

Seems like they'll be out of season soon enough.

Ben Rockney wrote:
Seems like they'll be out of season soon enough.


R.MONTH

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Read the other day where in Texas more people die from eating raw oysters
(6-7) than from poisonous snakes (1-2 per year) even though we have all but
one of the major species of poisonous snakes. Had a 3 1/2 ft rattler get
within 2" of the top of my boat boots last week so...well...figured I'll
stick with sushi and avoid the oysters since I survived the snake attack :)

Of course my wife JUST took a food handler's course at our county health
department and they discussed sushi as well and just how little a deep
freeze helps...

John
in Houston where I prefer fishing over oysters to eating them

"Ben Rockney" wrote in message
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Seems like they'll be out of season soon enough.

What an odd combination of two fish to compare.

Where are you finding this combination of fish? How big are the Amberjack?

As to the tasty part, both are excellent. Small Black Drum are
indistinguishable from Red Drum (Redfish down in Louisiana) once cleaned.
Amberjack are excellent on the grill as long as you get rid of the blood
line.

Eric Miller

"Pete Seegar" wrote in message
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Both of these fish seem prominent in some of my favorite fishing
locations. I
seem to have more luck catching Puppy Drum than Amber Jack. I'd like to
know
what you guys thing about the culinary and sporting qualities of these two
fish. Amber Jack seems to be more difficult to catch and less tast

Eric Miller wrote:


"Pete Seegar" wrote in message
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Both of these fish seem prominent in some of my favorite fishing

locations. I

seem to have more luck catching Puppy Drum than Amber Jack. I'd like to

know

what you guys thing about the culinary and sporting qualities of these two
fish. Amber Jack seems to be more difficult to catch and less tast

What an odd combination of two fish to compare.

Where are you finding this combination of fish? How big are the
Amberjack?

As to the tasty part, both are excellent. Small Black Drum are
indistinguishable from Red Drum (Redfish down in Louisiana) once cleaned.
Amberjack are excellent on the grill as long as you get rid of the blood
line.

This reminds me of a fellow here in Louisiana with lots of inshore
experience but zero offshore experience that insisted that he caught an
amberjack in Lake Ponchartrain (average depth of twelve feet) and that
amberjack tasted like crap.
I explained to him that amberjack was a deep water offshore fish and
that it was probably the same fish that another angler called the local
newspaper about when he thought that he caught a yellowfin tuna in the lake:

http://www.landbigfish.com/fish/fish.cfm?ID=115

:-)
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Thad