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Captain Wayne GenthnerContributing [email protected]
Imagine this. you’re spending a lazy late afternoon with a friend or two ply-ing the placid waters of north central Sarasota Bay near Long Bar. You’re quietly searching for the subtle swirls of feeding Red fish, when suddenly the surface for a hundred yards around the boat you’re in explodes into a fury of spray and slash. You train your eyes toward the commo-tion to identify the nature of the tempest and the sight you encounter simultane-ously thrills, chills and astounds you. It’s the biggest school of bull Red Fish you’ve ever seen and they’re blitzing minnows by the truckload right under you.
Certainly, that image alone is worth the price of admission but it gets even better. Not only are there hundreds of trophy sized sport fish running amok within short casting distance, they’re
being chased by a school of eight-foot long hammerhead sharks right out of the water and on top of the exposed and dry portion of the sand bar your fishing next to. Holy smokes, if you knew this would happen you’d have brought a bigger net!
Well, this was just one event out of many on one of my bay charters just east of White Key and the Inter-coastal Waterway this week. And it serves to underscore two points I’d like to make about the fishing in Sarasota Bay.
First, sportsfolk whom enjoy angling are privileged to function as guardians of a resource that never ceases to edify our community in ways that go beyond description by mere words. The fact that such amazing occurrences, requiring incredible masses of fish, testify to the fact that environmental regulations such as fertilizer use guidelines and storm water runoff abatement programs work. When we foster responsible stewardship
we are rewarded. Secondly, no matter how much time
you’ve spent on the water, and no matter how well you understand the natural pro-cesses constantly at work in the aquatic environment, there’s no way you’ve seen everything that it has to offer.
This week the near shore Gulf yeild-ed fine catches of delicious Key West Grunts, Gag Grouper, Spanish Mackerel and black tip shark. Of particular interest to me is the ever-increasing population of these large grunts and grouper, all within a couple of miles of shore. Those who enjoy sauté, ceviche and sashimi consider these fish a delicacy. And they’re fun to catch too, judging by the pleased look on my client, Ms. Jungman’s face. So, after three decades of shallow flats fishing and deep-water explorations I’ve decided to expect the unexpected and never then be disappointed in what lays ahead. There’s a long list of descriptive
adjectives I employ from time to time to help convey in discussions with clients the sense of excitement, and mystical grounding I experience every day when I point my boat’s compass and com-pany toward the unknown. Mundane, has never made the list.
When the fish run like this, bring a bigger net!
Ms. Jungman from Bradenton catches a Key West Grunt in the Gulf with Captain Wayne.
As promised last week, we hog tied Jeanette for her Grandma Georgia’s home-made ice cream recipe, forced her to make us a batch (for investigative purposes) and our staff agrees, it’s the best ice cream we’ve ever tasted and well worth the extra trouble.
Georgia’s Homemade Ice Cream Ingredients:
1/2 gallon of whole milk1/2 pint of heavy cream1 pint of Half & Half8 eggs (well beaten)2 1/2 Tablespoons Vanilla1 Tablespoon of Vanilla Beans2 packages of Frosty® or Junket® ice cream mix2 1/2 cups of sugarRock salt20 bag of iceHeat 2 cups of milk with 2 1/2 cups of sugar until almost boiling. Then
beat that mixture in with your eggs, adding mixture slowly and constantly mixing. Then add vanilla. Use 2 packages of your ice cream mix, mixed with a small amount of milk, making certain mixture is smooth before adding to above mixture. Add remaining milk, cream and half & half into mixture, stir-ring well. Pour mixture into ice cream maker’s freezer. Add layers of ice and rock salt, alternately until space between freezer and bucket are full. In an electric mixer the ice cream maker will stop when mixing is completed. In an old-fashioned hand churned ice cream maker mixture will take about 45 minutes, or until you can not turn the mixture. Carefully drain water from the bucket (covering the ice cream container to not allow any of the salt water to penetrate). Then repack your ice cream maker with alternating ice and rock salt, cover machine top with a heavy towel or rug. Allow to sit for 1 hour.
Summer recipe series continues with Grandma Georgia’s ice cream
Nothing is better than incorporating the fresh ingrediients of the seasons into your daily diet.