Today I went deep sea fishing with my
dad, Butch. This meant getting up for a 3
a.m. revelee, and making it down to Mon-
terey by six to catch a boat, There were
twenty-four FISHERMEN on the boat
which was called Randy 11. Randy dea
worthiness was rather questionable out
this early in the morning, one doesn't think
of such things asasining Instead, the
thought on everybody's mind was Am
going to vogutupchuck, Reaven or RALPH
front of twenty-three other people, includ-
ing two crew members? It was on my mind,
and I wasn't even worried
On our way ook to sea, the cans of Bud
weiser 're already popping and still be-
fore 7am An uncle offered me Nomidor
burrito Nop is a species of cactos
diced nerambler witheggs and bed in
side a fiburnia Ansander, Guamas
or Hawaiian, rushed to be rall and heaved
a six foot stream, his first egr and slice of
loast overboard
"Wait till we stop before yoursta chum
min'r
Four minutes later, another guy started
singing the whale song over the edge and
disposed of a 7-11 microwave breakfast,
including coffee with cream and sugar.
I hadn't been fishing with pops in about
a year. Last time was really fun, I only
barfed three times even though the water
was rough.
I drank some coffee trying to wake myself
up, ate some sunflower seeds and kept
away from the bathroom because it reeked
like the shithouse door of a Tuna boat and
everyone who went in ended up leaning
over the rail at some point. I figured for
sure that the room was bad luck.
Finally after an hour of driving out into
the ocean, the boat stopped and the boat-
driver-dude-guy says, "O.K everyone,
drop èm all the way down to the bottom
and reel èm back up about 150 to 200 feet.
They're about 200 feet from the bottom, so
you'll probably hit èm on the way down."
"How far to the bottom?", a guy with a
beer can holder tied around his neck asked.
"About 500 feet down, so you'll use up
most of your line bythosision
What?
What kind of pots and pans do you codk
your food in?
Stainless steel
Hah, you're cooking with stess plock
Splain
Those kind of pans are cheap The
stales doesn't hold heat very we
and you can burn your food gely asy
Now. I'd say the late would be castiroh
lets, Tha castiron holds the heal for
orger amount of time and distributes it
ricey, Oulthing about those, is that they
dusa be dead mediately after washing
se they begin to rust Heavy aluminum
copper pads are good tod, but I think
ing in alminin pas chincer into you
Asante anudder one
whatway of cooking are probably
best at preggiving putrent
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Well Lube Strying. It's a
mple cook process that rolves cut-
ng or dicing up food veggieat, etc.,
DOTAILnto bed dunes and yog them; in
hot unicatief vegetable pine wok or si
It took about a minues to drop the
with four hooks or it. He to the both
Than, Jess than adhioute in
kinds of ges so thad to pay it at the way
back up to the surface. The added Grego
fish tide it tough locreat the buch upo sa
on the average, about ton mined to
to reel in The heartbreaking word
Part
the line before the surface sind you had
diddlys quas All of the work for
It was just alfor pulling in ons of those
All that work for nothleyphronged
with the person next to me, that said,
wish I could puke my que but right now
This very second! A lady band me, who
Chad just finished Bodwiese smoked a
cigarrette and had been gigging for the last
hour from my dad sjoke Betzkreig C
EXHIBITIONIST was gonna retire, burt
decided to stick it got another year told
me to Please up, then ran to the rail
Bemelegoing forthe distance, but-foing
Two feet short of the islander's record
We paid no astenben to her dilemma. We
couldn't. Deep sea fishing is pure hell. The
vomit, the dozens of fish getting yanked up
from the deep depths, so deep that their
guts were hanging out their mouths from
the pressure change, big fresh shark bites
out of some of the fish being hauled in,
sharks being hauled in, getting your line
tangled with someone on the other side of
the bont, people telling endless sour
jokes...heck, we had a lot to worry about.
"All dat work fer nothing?r, the guy next
to me moans. His name is Lupe, a friend.
somehow connected with family Hey
Lupe, you just wasted ten minutes of your
life on that last one."
"Go to hell."
"Hey, let me tell you about things like,
the importance in a lot of people's lives to
have their own chair. A real cool, familiar
place to plop your ass down every once in
awhile. Oh, and what about these cool
cooking tips I just learned? OK, let's play
a little game, ok.?
"Huh?"
The hot off costs and books the foods
really fast, and its most of a nutrients
Another good way, not pettes storming
profan hy taboo basket
eafer to the avere sthless steel
gomes Stumors are good cause of tha
Blonde hong provided through the steam
process canst and the druperature
en intense, which destroys plenty of
nutrients, unggg, more thard care to taik
about at this time. You know Lupe, to steam
some food, bail about half-inch to an
inoff of water in big-ass poor a frying
pan. Placer steamwt into parodi vegeta-
bles in it Put the ones that take longer to
pook on the bottort, so they get the brunt
the stead then cover the pot with a
suficient lid to keepin steam and nutriente
Now get me Lupe what are the
ggest destroyers of nutrients
I think I got a bite."
"Nope, the correct answer is, time, water,
light and heat. That's why the steaming is
highly effective. The food is kept out of the
light, coated with only a small amount of
moisture, and exposed to heat for a small
amount of time."
1 got a big one. Pinzas! Pinzas! come
look here. I think I gotta the big feesh!", he
screamed over his shoulder to his brother,
who had boon tangled for the last fifteen)
minutes and was on his eighth beer
I looked down at the deck, it was littered
with dozens of dead fish from three
hundred and fifty feet below the ocean,
about three cases worth of empty soldiers,
some chopped up squid, crushed com
chips, blood, fish scales, two half told jokes,
and a one-sleeved Jay Adams t-shirt that
I fleeced to make into a headband. All day.
I didn't boot the soot, but you can't say
that I didn't try.
Until my next installment, always try to
remember this as an afterthought, for when
you've run out of things to think about:
OK? now, what kind of cookware do "When it's fresh, it is fresh, so don't forget
to floss."
you use?"
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