**it was back in 1994 when i went on my first indonesia boat trip. we were fishing everyday and i won’t forget the day we finally caught a katsuo or “aku.” as soon as we caught the fish, everybody was thinking “sashimi.” so the captain asked if any of us knew how to cut the fish up. nobody did. so he took out his knife and went to work. oh my gosh!!! he butchered the thing. i mean, he did a terrible job in cutting the fish and i remember the look on some of our faces. shock!!! on a boat in indo? craving for sashimi? we each brought a tube of wasabi but i swear we only ate 2 pieces of sashimi on that trip. i will never forget that…
fast forward a couple years after that to another boat trip to new calidonia. we fish, we catch, our captain “Eric Morat” gets out his filet knife, and cuts up the fish like a professional sushi chef. i was sitting there in awe thinking to myself, “wow, that’s cool, i want to do that.” so i asked eric to teach me how. my first fish looked like hamburger. haha. yeah, it looked terrible. but we ate it anyway. then i started to get the feel. ever since then, i’ve been cutting up my own fish for sashimi. the fish just tastes better when you catch it, clean it, filet it, and prepare it yourself. if it wasn’t for those two boat trips, i would still be clueless. thanks captain 1 for giving me a shocker experience, and thank you captain 2 for teaching me a valuable lesson in life….
if you asked me 15 years ago if i could filet a fish, i would tell you no. if you asked me now, i would tell you to get your wasabi ready. this papio i speared yesterday went pretty well with a few beers…
**to all you fisherman out there, catch your fish, clean it, and try to filet it. it takes time to learn but once you do, you will be glad you did. ganbatte ne[:?????$B!x(B???:]
i split the head down the middle because i want to make indonesia style soup, look what i found… a freakin fishing hook!!! it was way in the back of the mouth stuck in the throat. shit, if i wasn’t careful, i would have ate that… abunai….
