Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> George Shirley > wrote:
>
>>> I can sometimes get the live for around $2.00 per lb.
>>> There are also some in the river here (I've seen them during night
>>> snorkeling sometimes) but not nearly enough to make a meal out of.
>> About a pound a year is my limit on eating crawfish, I'm still and old
>> Texas boy and those things were bait when I was a kid. Best catfish bait
>> I ever used. Used to catch a bucket full, bait the trot line and run it
>> occasionally during the night. The rest of the time we would sit around
>> the fire, drink coffee, and tell lies about all the fish we caught.
>
> <lol> I generally use chunks of beef liver for catfish bait. :-)
> Much cheaper than crawfish!
Get some pork liver and leave it out in the sun for a few hours, makes
an excellent stink bait for catfish.
>
> There are many that consider shrimp to be fish bait too, but it's my #1
> favorite food...

We use bait shrimp, they're smaller than eating size. Different license
required for catching bait shrimp than for eating shrimp.
>
> I'm going to pick up a nice salmon fillet for fathers day for dad in the
> morning. Grill it with Dillweed and Oranges, then serve it with saute'd
> shrimp that were on sale this week at HEB, (really big ones!) and some
> BBQ'd pork loin. I've not decided on a veggie yet. Probably steamed
> "baby" carrots and some steamed broccoli as those are dad's two favorite
> veggies.

I wish we could get decent salmon here, all that is available in "fresh"
is very anemic looking and the rest is frozen.

My daughter and SIL are coming over from Houston tomorrow, we will have
smoked pork ribs, acorn squash, new potatoes with home grown green
beans, and a fresh loaf of bread (SIL loves my homemade bread), dessert
will be Hello Dolly bars. Then they will go home again and we can rest.