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Post by edenwildfood on Aug 17, 2014 16:15:19 GMT
i am hopefully going to try my hand at sea fishing for the first time tomorrow and will be scouting out for shellfish, for september when we are back in season for foraging them, what do you guys forage from the shores. I tend to get a bag of mixed sea veg, sandwort, rock and marsh samphire, sea aster and sea puslane and sometimes sea beet when im out there.
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Post by foragingmouse on Aug 17, 2014 16:23:45 GMT
If your going and haven't already seaweed has to be your first port of call there are some great flavours pepper dulse is my personal fav
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Post by eatlikekings on Aug 17, 2014 22:05:59 GMT
Where are you fishing - the weather isn't supposed to be great tomorrow.
Seashore foraging is great. We generally go on a big low tide for crabs (brown and velvet swimmer), lobster (if we're very lucky), razor clams and prawns. Have not tried much seaweed.
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Post by edenwildfood on Aug 18, 2014 18:34:08 GMT
Oh well. Not a sausage but think we have a better idea for next time. The tide tables were wrong online so didn't get best time in. Caught a crab lol. We were up on the wirral. They forbid cockling until Sept so will go for day then again I think
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Post by Brewforagegrow on Aug 18, 2014 22:12:23 GMT
Not to make it seem like I'm mildly useless at everything, but I started sea fishing last year, went a fair few times and have so far caught one mackerel in my entire career.
Hoping to get out in the next couple of weeks, really want some mackerel.
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Post by eatlikekings on Aug 25, 2014 22:02:19 GMT
It's been a dreadful year for mackerel all round the coast. Theories abound, from overfishing to the warm early summer pushing them further north. We had a few off the kayaks in Gower in May but it's been barren since. Was on charters off pembrokeshire twice last week and saw barely a handful. They are my favourite eating fish so I hope they come back next year!  |
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Post by edenwildfood on Aug 25, 2014 22:16:42 GMT
Trying my hand at sea fishing on the wirral with a friend on Wednesday. Hopefully we will catch something this time
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Post by cab on Aug 26, 2014 13:18:30 GMT
If I'm in clean waters, I love seaside shellfish. Winkles are lovely, mussels from the rocks, and of course limpets (bung some garlic butter in each one and cook them in the embers of a sea coal fire, nothing finer!). Also been known to cook up sauces using shore crabs, and when I lived in North Lancashire I occasionally followed the cocklers round with my own bucket  As for seaweed, I see it mostly as more of a snack while wandering than a take home forage - the exception being oarweed which I love dried overnight and fried. Greens - in the South, Alexanders is a great seaside plant that I've taken in to cultivation on my inland allotment, and sea beet and assorted sea-coast brassicas are good. Not such a fan of foraged sea-kale and I tend to leave leeks that I've seen growing down Brighton way where they are on the back of the beach. But for me marsh samphire is the absolute king of seaside greens. Two fruit thrive by the sea and I don't much get them elsewhere - but I can't be bothered with either Duke of Argylls teaplant, now more widely known as Goji berry, is one I've experimented with on the Norfolk coast, and the only wild fruit I'm less likely to use is sea buckthorn, a harvest purely for masochists |
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Post by eatlikekings on Aug 26, 2014 14:07:33 GMT
I have always steered clear from limpets and winkles with the thought that they are chewy (my experiences with whelks have been similar) - any tips?
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Post by cab on Aug 26, 2014 20:08:54 GMT
Yeah, don't over-cook them and let them rest a minute or three after cooking before eating. And they're still chewy, but delicious. There's a little hard bit you need to cut or spit out too |
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