Weekend Cooking & Drinking Thread

[BeastMan]

Heading down to the coast after work with the wife. Think we're grabbing dinner in the bay. More to come... Also a rumor a cpl Outdoor Dawgs are going to try to get after the spots and dots tomorrow...

[SpeckleDawg]

Boiling some shrimp, corn and taters - tis the season. Working on some Chandeleur Brewing Lil Smack IPA while cooking. Ready to get on some fish tomorrow.

[SpeckleDawg]

[BeastMan]

Very nice. I had the lil smack last time I was in BSL. Good stuff

[BeastMan]

Some gulf seafood at North Beach in BSL

[Uncle Ruckus]

So, what did I miss out on?

[BeastMan]

Myself and Speckdawg met up at the marina early and headed south. West winds were pretty stiff but we bumped our way out to the marsh. Our first stop (an exterior island), the wind had it rough and we didn't even try to fish in it. Ran inside to interior marsh and found trout at the first stop. Probably caught 15ish undersized fish before deciding to move to another spot. Went to next spot and found trout immediately again and they were small also. We ended up getting 6 keepers at that spot. If the fish were 1 inch longer, we would have had an easy limit. At 9ish switches gears to redfish. Went to a pond and caught 6 in an hour. Well, Speckdawg caught 5 to my 1. He put on a clinic. We both had things to do so we headed in at 10. If we would have had another hour in the pond, we would have had a limit no doubt. Great day on the water with another Outdoor Dawg. We'll have to do it again. Having trouble with reception and pics

[BeastMan]

[BeastMan]

Speck's red was 25 inches, 7+ lbs. great slot fish. I'll let speck guess how many total trout we caught. It was a bunch

[BrunswickDawg]

Dang! Nice morning. I was going to head out this morning - but it was 85 at 7:30 am. Too freakin hot to be on the water today.

[BeastMan]

Just got thoroughly crisped at the pool. Gonna grub somewhere good tonight

[SpeckleDawg]

It was a good morning for sure. As Beast said, the small trout were thick. I imagine we caught at least 10 shorts for every keeper. That big red had my trout rig screaming for a few minutes. Was a great time.

[Uncle Ruckus]

Just found out there was a 20yr old girl that was ran over by another boat in bayou caddy this morning. Didn't know the girl, but my wife's parents are friends with the girls parents. She was setting crab pots with her boyfriend and a boat t-boned them, running over the girl. WLOX is reporting that she's passed, but we haven't heard that yet. The guy who did it refused a breathalyzer from what we were told as well. Really hope it was just a really unfortunate incident and not because someone was drunk

[BeastMan]

Damn that's terrible

[SpeckleDawg]

I saw that on the news. Awful. I hate hearing that.

[SpeckleDawg]

One of the Reds from above on the half shell. One filet is the same ole butter/lemon and the other has a "key west fish rub" and some lemon and lime juice. Caribbean rice on the side.

[BrunswickDawg]

Wrapped the weekend up right with a little LCB. I love having a seafood market 3 blocks from the house.

[SpeckleDawg]

I am not much of a vodka drinker at all, but a Russian co-worker always told me that Russian Standard vodka was great stuff. I happened to see it in an airport duty free store a couple years ago and bought a bottle. I'm sure you can get it here, but I have never noticed it or looked for it. Just opened it and it is very smooth.

[BeastMan]

One of the Reds from above on the half shell. One filet is the same ole butter/lemon and the other has a "key west fish rub" and some lemon and lime juice. Caribbean rice on the side.

Very nice! I netted that fish!

[BeastMan]

Family style dinner at The Gathering tonight.