CH>  GP> What does catfish taste like? Comparable, in any way to any other
CH>  GP> common food fish?
CH>
CH>  It's like Flounder (Or Pollack. Haddock).

I like Alaskon Pollock -- makes a nice seafood chowder, and great for
California or Alaska Rolls!

CH> I miss lake trout. Had a lot of that in NYS. Way back before Keuka
CH> Lake started getting polluted, a neighbor took his row boat out pre
CH> dawn... would catch three or four trout and give us a couple. :)

I occasionally pick up whole rainbow trout from the grocery store to do a great
poached recipe my dad learned at a resort back east some 40-50 years ago!

CH> It would be  baked with lemon butter, garlic, tomato... oregano... and be
CH> utterly delicious. ooooh the taste buds do remember!

Sounds like an experience I had just across the border in southern Washington
state in my teens -- we caught a bass off the dock, with a baited hook on a
chunk of string, dangled by hand, and jiggled til the big one bit, then we
hauled him up, had him filetted, and in a frying pan in mere minutes -- never
had any fish that fresh before! oohhhh, it was GOOOOD!!!!

My favourite, though, is fresh Sockeye(wild!) salmon, cooked in almost any way
that doesn't dry it out!  and it makes good sashimi, too, when prepared by a
proper Japanese-trained sushi chef!

One restaurant here in Richmond (called Yokohama) does the best salmon sashimi
and teriyaki I've had anywhere!) :) (but they're not so good on the tuna (not a
Japan-trained chef, so doesn't understand the sensitivity of tuna -- the salmon
he has a gimme on, since the fishing boats pull in just across the street from
him every morning!)

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))
(aka Reverend George A. Pope)



CH> ...............
CH> 
CH>  Re: 'lake' in North West Australia.
CH> 
CH>  GP> I can't help but wonder if the main attraction of this place might not
CH>  GP> be mostly just that it's such a wild thing to have happen, all by
CH>  GP> Nature -- the resurrection of a habitat after a few years as seemingly
CH>  GP> dead? :)
CH> 
CH>  Plants and some animals (the frogs) 'go dormant' during the dry
CH> spell and spring  to live during the wet spell.
CH> 
CH> You know what is amazing? Man converting a dry scrub area to a lush
CH> nearly semi-tropical jungle. Such is the case with the Botanical Gardens
CH> (an area including the FW Zoo and The Japanese garden)- in Fort Worth
CH> here. The whole area was once nothing but field and a gravel pit.
CH> Careful development and management have turner it into a true sanctuary
CH> for the senses. You forget where you are.
CH> 
CH> The Japanese Garden was started in the '70's. I think the whole area
CH> was started (developed) at about the same time judging by the maturity
CH> of the largest trees.
CH> ...............
CH> 
CH>  CH>  Lots of rich folks down here. I imagine it could be done given the
CH>  CH>  will. You've seen the Japanese Garden in FW? Now that is amazing! To
CH>  CH>  think it was once a gravel pit.
CH> 
CH>  GP> Why would you want a SALT water lake?  What's wrong with fresh water
CH> 
CH>  On nothing wrong with fresh and salt would not do too well here.
CH> Though one of the malls is contracting for developing a HUGE indoor
CH> salt water aquarium. hmm. This should be interesting. Tropical fish
CH> sure are pretty! :)
CH> 
CH> But for salt water body of water to effectively support marine life, it wou
CH> need to be ... the Ocean.
CH> .................................
CH> 
CH>  GP> When I was a kid, my dad would take us to the beach in summers, but
CH>  GP> not to the ocean one(not TOO far off) but to a large lake that was
CH>  GP> probably more or less the same distance driving) -- it was great! 
CH> 
CH> Hmm. I'd rather go to the Ocean. But a lake would suffice. A real lake
CH> with a real beach.... There's something tranquilizing about a large
CH> body of water. And a good warm fuzzzy feeling too that while you are
CH> awed by it's seemingly infinite immensity- you're also safely ashore
CH> and not out there in the middle of it! :)
CH> 
CH> When I'd stand out there on the beach at Cape Canaveral Seashores; a
CH> narrow sand barrier- stand out there with my feet in the tickling
CH> warm surf- I'd sense the immensity of the whole Country behind me.
CH> I'd be right on the very EDGE of it all! :) A good feeling somehow.
CH> Like being safe. Free. Far from the Maddening Crowd. Ahead there- just
CH> me and the mighty sea. Drink deep the sight of the ever rolling surf;
CH> the timeless, tireless sea. It is the Elixir of Life itself.
CH> ...................................
CH> 
CH> 
CH>  GP> When I first
CH>  GP> saw the ocean beaches, I was unimpressed -- when swimming, if you get
CH>  GP> any in your mouth -- EWWWYUCKOO!!! :| but in the lake -- it
was pure &
CH> 
CH>  I agree. I don't care for the taste of salt water. It's the VIEW I
CH> lust after. :) IT's hard to put myself in the place of someone who has
CH> no attraction to the sea at all. I supposed our feelings are mutually
CH> alien to one another.
CH> .........................
CH> 
CH>  GP> natural/clean -- you could be out in a canoe in fairly deep water and
CH>  GP> still see the bottom on a clear day!  (We did that when I was about
CH>  GP> 12, my dad took my brother & I up the lake in a canoe
for a weekend
CH>  GP> campout!)  Wonderful! (Harrison Lake, BC -- if you can find photos of
CH>  GP> it & the area, you'll surely be impressed with the
natural beauty of
CH>  GP> the
CH>  GP> surroundings there!)
CH> 
CH>  A lake IS safer. :) I agree. Only a fool would venture out
CH> to Sea or a large lake, not knowing how IT is the master and he/she BETTER
CH> know what they're doing out there.
CH> 
CH> Cindy
CH> 
CH> ... "Chocolate is a serious thing." ---Troi
CH> 
CH> --- PPoint 3.01
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