We left the hotel and walked down the alley to the main street to look for a cab. In Hanoi, even this was intense: relentless honking, the smell of sewerage and meat, constantly dodging people, proposals, animals and motorbikes. We found the main road and looked up and down, straining to spot a cab among the thousands of bikes. One…
Month: January 2013
Northern adventures: run off trip is set to go for 2013, March 28th -April 7th
Last year, the blog got together and made the trek to the the Daly river to fish the run off. This year we are doing it all again- this time bigger and better. Last year we launched on the Daly and travelled down to the river mouth and up the coast a bit. This year we area adding some (extra)…
Should we change the name?
This was written about a year ago by Hamish and Lee going back and forth using the blog like facebook messenger. It was meant to just be read by the other writers of the blog… However, reading it again its pretty funny (we think) and our name, while it looks like its hear to stay, IS far to restrictive to…
Weekend trouting…
As time faded away from me at my housemates going away party, I started to get a little anxious about whether I would actually wake up to my alarm at 415 the next morning, which was only 5 hours away. It had already been a pretty hectic weekend. A dinner party on Friday with friends we hadn’t seen for a…
Garfish gurgler
I am not much of a fly tier. I haven’t been tying my own flies for all that long, so thats not a surprise. I’m slowly improving and I can at least catch fish on flies I’ve tied myself which is enormously gratifying. While they aren’t yet pieces of art, maybe one day I’ll get there… However, in the spirit…
Garlic, chilli and white wine mussels- a recipe of sorts
This is the last post of my recipe blitz. As you can maybe tell, my fishing expeditions over the holidays weren’t all that successful. The demands of the girlfriend, family and social events meant I wasn’t out fishing as much as I would have liked and my stubborn insistence that I was going to fish “fly only” for the trip to try…
Sage abolone recipe
Next up in the blitz- abalone. If you frequent the South coast of NSW or the Victorian and Tasmanian coastlines regularly odds are you have dived for abalone. They are easy enough to collect and clean and in many areas are plentiful. At times, on some camping trips, its easy to forget they are a delicacy, they can become a…
Deep fried bream (or snapper or morwong)
I’m not sure about your family, but for ours, the holidays often revolves around food (and games, balderdash, scatergories and arguing about the latter are family favourites). This holidays I finally got around to teaching dad to deep fry whole fish. Deep frying whole fish is one of my “cant be bothered” recipes (bit like this garfish “recipe”, both make…
Grilled garfish- when a recipe isn’t really a recipe
This probably doesn’t even count as a recipe, but its delicious, so here goes… On the last day of my holidays. I headed out Jewfishing. The day before, we had been to a spot and tailor of between 30-40 cm were being chased by something on the turn of the tide. Jewfish were the obvious conclusion, but I had absolutely…