I try and bleed all the fish that I take home with me. I think the bleeding makes the meat cleaner--both when you go to fillet the fish and when you cook it. It's a quick ritual that I do on the deck of my boat, a few seconds with a knife. The trick to bleeding is …
A few thoughts on local fish
I don't attend many trade shows, maybe one or two every few years. This last one in mid-March was a seafood show at the Convention Center in Boston. Big seafood. International as well as domestic. I walked the aisles aimlessly, no map, no plan, passing vendor booths …
Bahamas, off the beaten path.
A recent trip to the Bahamas with the family, the island of Eleuthera, the one shaped like an eel with a slight bend or crook in its middle, just east of Nassau. Felt good to get away from Rhode Island. We packed light, no checked bags, so I was limited in what I …
Point Judith Butterfish
A butterfish on deck in a tote with ice, slushed down in sea water--it's almost heaven. White flesh full of fat, the good sea fat not the potato chip kind. They've got beautiful silver bodies, flattened like a frisbee, tiny scales. And the fish are nearly …
Winter sea herring, Block Island Sound
Short herring video aboard the Ocean State out of Point Judith, RI …
Photos: Fishing for Rhode Island native brook trout
My friends brought me in to a stream that was good for native brook trout. "Keep this place quiet," they said. We hiked a trail through the woods. Pines trees rose like toothpicks from the ground. Owl country. The west wind shook the trees. At the stream, cold and …
