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Not doing anything fancy here like making the vinegar, we`re pickling/preserving scallops/razorfish the fast,easy, cheap way, eliminating the need for refrigeration. We usually had large numbers to take home after a month away & the caravan fridge was very small. You can buy white vinegar from Costco for under $3 for 5 litres. You can get rid of most of the vinegar taste by removing them from the jar/container & sitting them on paper towel for a few minutes. The paper towel absorbs a good deal of the vinegar & then we used to do whatever we liked with `em from there. Cheers

Put the boiled/cooked scallop meat into a jar/container & add enough white vinegar to cover them. Done !!

Hey Panga, used to scallop/razor-fish dive a lot around Pt Vincent when I was younger & we used to pickle `em in jars of white vinegar after boiling `em up. If you want to cook `em up in breadcrumbs or similar just leave `em on a saucer/plate out of the jar for a short period & then do whatever you want with `em as the vinegar dissipates a lot when they`re removed. The vinegar pickles `em & extends their shelf life to basically the life of the vinegar. Have had them in jars for over a year & good as gold. My favourite was to slice `em up & put on fresh bread with pepper on

Looks like the piccie has done a runner. Will attempt to find it & post it back up. Anyone been able to knock this bad boy off yet ? 10 Lb / Just over 4.5 Kg. & 106.5cm in length. Cheers ppl.

Unfortunately the pathetic response from rec fishers to the recent government attempt to ask what we wanted pretty much summed up the reason for what happens. Out of about 280K rec fishers, 800 or so turned up at the community consultations and about 1500 bothered to fill in the questionaires. Trust funds do not ensure protection of monies from abuse, many a lawyer has diddled their trust fund & I have had first hand experience of it when my mother passed.

And if I`m right the REC Fishing Licence would just add to the amount of dollars these morons have to throw around on their own reckless/ideological stupidity. Cheers

Further to my earlier post I neglected to say the marine biologists reckon we have 14 square kilometres of desert out from the treatment works at Bolivar, If we`ve got that much that is desert then how much is severely affected ? & What the hell is the point of sanctuary zones/marine parks/ increased size limits/reduced bag limits/licence buy-backs etc etc. It`s all just political/politicised crap to make it look like they`re doing something, it`s grandstanding to the uninformed masses who`ve never fished a day in their life or put their head underwater but like the sound of the ideologic

Unless fishing licences raise enough to fix the pollution of Upper GSV by Bolivar treatment works then IMO it`s just another waste of time/money/effort. Sick to death of it. We treat the damn gulf which is the most important breeding area in the state like a sewer & then wonder why we`ve got issues/problems. Fishing effort by rec`s & commercials alike has dropped since I was a youngster, it is far more "managed/regulated" now than it has ever been, decreased bag limits, fewer anglers, increased size limits BUT WE`RE STILL GOING BACKWARDS, IF YOU BELIEVE THE SCIENCE. WHY ?

Many many years ago there was a 25 footer (over 7.5 m if my math is correct) displayed in an alcohol bath/aquarium on the back of a semi-trailer at the Wayville Showgrounds. It was one of the biggest ever caught supposedly. I remember thinking it was like a damn submarine with teeth. Cheers ppl.

Nice explanation Rod. Absolutely correct, the final stage fingers are like a sharpening steel & do re-align the edge. No guessing of angles like with an ordinary steel though. Have been using this system for close to 2 decades now & you`d never know from looking at my knives that they are not brand new/good as the day they were made. Definitely no degradation from "scraping". I have several brands of filleting knives as well as my bone - handled knives, (Marttini, Kershaw, F. Dick & sons from Germany,Scanpan,Buck, Mundial, Furi). Some I bought, some I inherited, all different blad

Hey ppl, a while back I posted similar to what I`ve posted up on this site on FishinSA, a number of people bought the Furi system on my recommendation including Rod, not one of those dozen or so people have said to me that they don`t agree that it is the easiest, most fool-proof system for keeping knives razor sharp that they have ever used or seen. Anyone can use the Furi system, all you have to do is be able to pull your knife thru the fingers horizontally. There is no guessing of angles as with most other sharpening systems, the fingers hold the blade constantly at the correct angle, all yo

This is what I used to set the initial blade angle when first attempting to get an edge on my bone handled kitchen knives,along with my Dremel with a small course sanding drum . It is drawn towards the operator with the knife lying flat / horizontally, it is quicker than the Furi system for this process as it removes more metal per stroke. So first of all I just started with the Dremel to get a tapered/bevelled edge,compared it with another knife to get some sort of idea of the required angle, then used the hand-drawn 20 degree angle sharpener to get the angle closer to what it needs to be. On

Hey ppl, as Rod says I use a Furi / 3 stage sharpener & it is without a doubt the easiest way to sharpen a knife I have come across in my lifetime. I have any number of different oil-stones floating around out in my shed & they haven`t seen daylight in over 15 years. I too used an Accusharp to initially get the angle close to what I wanted before using the Furi system. Any " v " type sharpener with an angle of 15 to 20 degrees will get you started. The one I used & still have is one I carried in my back-pack when hiking/camping but now resides in my boat & it is drawn towards t

JAYMAN, excuses excuses excuses, it`s got nothing to do with how long the battery lasts "normally" or how long it sat on the shelf. You failed to check it, & it all has to do with your attitude not theirs. The authorities see the same lousy attitude from everybody they caution /fine. Time to take responsibility for your actions IMO. Cheers

@ Jayman, unless your phone floats it does not meet the standard required for marine torches & as such you had no excuse. Law is the law whether you like it or not. I`d consider you were very lucky to get off with a warning, but you evidently are peeed off enough to gripe about their "revenue raising". If the flares are expired they`re expired (even if only 2 weeks out of date), near enough ain`t good enough IMO. Astounds me in this life that so many ppl bitch about this stuff when they know they`re in the wrong. It`s all about attitude to authority it seems to me. It`s VOLUNTARY TAXATION