I'm going fishing in a couple hours for Rockfish in VA
Heres my spot.
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Good luck and post up a report. 
Welcome
I actually had it as sahimi but I prefer WSB for sashimi. I also made it very simply I put salt pepper and cooked it with olive oil. It tasted great. I also am making ceviche but I was looking at wrapping the fish with spinich and lettuce and seasoning it with lemon garlic, salt, pepper and some herbs and then baking it. I have macadamia encrusted it and thats really tasty too.
Had a great dive with Bamz today. Water was 61 degrees and there was all kind of life in the water. Saw a few short WSB a school of Barracuda and a seal. I then managed a 26 inch halibut after scaring him off 3 times. Good diving with you Scott looking forward to doing it again.
To not buying fish in a market again sounds like a great toast to me. Sounds like you scored on those oysters.
That's awesome! Congrats. I am trying to figure out my next trip up to Mendocino.
Very nice gun!
Lots of great information here. Thanks again for everyone's input. It is appreciated.
I was forwarded to Helter skeletons for fish skulls. They are in Florida I believe and they do some nice work from what I can see on their website.
Dan
Did you complete that Barracuda?
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Very nice! Congrats on some great fish.
Here is a picture of the skull. Hes not a big buck but after hiking 40 miles in 4 days I was happy to get myself some tasty backstraps for the BBQ.
There is some good info on this website about beetles and taxidermy.
Taxidermy / Dermestid Beetles - California Predators Club Forums
Those are some big blues. We caught one once hand lining for tuna one night but he wasn't that fat.
I know that the taxidermists use dermestid beetles. The trick from what I understand it to dry out the meat as much as possible and then let the beetles do the trick I know a couple of guys that do it professionally here in CA. One sells beetle kits. I had a deer skull done and it looks great. I burries a coyote skull but I need to clean it and de grease it and then peroxide it to get it really pretty. Its a lot of work. Most guys will do a skull for at or under 100 bucks and they also glue the loose parts in for you. I will try to post a picture later of the deer if you like.
Is that a silky shark in the picture?
Congrats on the nice halis. Someone once told me they had a ziplock full with halibut cheeks in their freezer and his girlfriend opened up the freezer and it was labeled but cheeks. Apparently it caused a bit of a stir as this was all going on around the time Jeffrey Dahmer was around.
Looks very nice. I want to seem more pictures but with some critters on the other end of it.
