And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
When surfacing after patrol we would find them stuck in various places on the missile deck. Also, the smell of fresh air after around 60 days submerged was putrid! And nothing to do with the flying fish!
Seriously though, they'll leap right into your boat, in my Caribbean experience. Don't know what the fishermen use to catch them for the markets. But they are super tasty, very delicate flesh. Terrific for breakfast on the water.
Now you made me look it up. Check out the OnLineFisherman. "Many anglers take a small dinghy and fill it with few inches of water, then place a light on the dinghy so it is illuminated. The flying fish are attracted to the light and then jump into the small dinghy landing in the few inches of water at the bottom of the dinghy. Light is the Flying Fish's weakness -- they cannot resist jumping towards it! Another way at night is using a shower curtain and lights. You lay out a shower curtain on an angle in your boat and place a light behind it, illuminating the shower curtain. The flying fish jump towards the light, get caught in the shower curtain and proceed to slide down the curtain onto the deck of the boat.
Many times the anglers in the boat are getting struck in the head by the numerous flying fish. Wear a helmet! Another way is to illuminate the side of your boat and with long-handled nets and catch the Flying Fish as they are jumping and flying in big schools at the side of your boat."
No snide comments about my small dinghy, if you don't mind.
I remember the first time I saw them when I was working offshore. I was on a derrick barge, tending a diver's line when these things just started coming out of the water in front of me. Some landed on deck and more than one hit me. After a while, they became commonplace enough. What surprised me most was just how small they really are.
Another amazing site to see out on the ocean when the sun came up - as far as you could see it looked like someone had dumped a bunch of plastic zip lock bags - floating out to the horizon. Turned out that all those "plastic bags" were Portuguese Man-o-War jellyfish. No matter how careful you were, you'd get stung from tentacles tangled up in the diver's lines as you pulled him up. MSG worked good for neutralizing the sting.
That a tail-hook?
ReplyDeleteThe first time I remember hearing about flying fish was when I read the book "Kon-Tiki" in school.
ReplyDeleteWhen surfacing after patrol we would find them stuck in various places on the missile deck. Also, the smell of fresh air after around 60 days submerged was putrid! And nothing to do with the flying fish!
ReplyDeleteI bet that it would be fun hunting those with my 16 gauge feather light.........
ReplyDeleteThere are few things tastier than fresh-caught-and-fried flying fish, it is one of my faves.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you use for bait?
DeleteFlying fish whistle.
DeleteSeriously though, they'll leap right into your boat, in my Caribbean experience. Don't know what the fishermen use to catch them for the markets. But they are super tasty, very delicate flesh. Terrific for breakfast on the water.
DeleteNow you made me look it up. Check out the OnLineFisherman. "Many anglers take a small dinghy and fill it with few inches of water, then place a light on the dinghy so it is illuminated. The flying fish are attracted to the light and then jump into the small dinghy landing in the few inches of water at the bottom of the dinghy. Light is the Flying Fish's weakness -- they cannot resist jumping towards it! Another way at night is using a shower curtain and lights. You lay out a shower curtain on an angle in your boat and place a light behind it, illuminating the shower curtain. The flying fish jump towards the light, get caught in the shower curtain and proceed to slide down the curtain onto the deck of the boat.
DeleteMany times the anglers in the boat are getting struck in the head by the numerous flying fish. Wear a helmet! Another way is to illuminate the side of your boat and with long-handled nets and catch the Flying Fish as they are jumping and flying in big schools at the side of your boat."
No snide comments about my small dinghy, if you don't mind.
Well, I'll be go-to-hell.
DeleteThanks for the info.
Imagine an airplane designed after a flying fish?
ReplyDeletePart glider and part submarine.
DeleteGreat bait for something to eat.
ReplyDeleteI remember the first time I saw them when I was working offshore. I was on a derrick barge, tending a diver's line when these things just started coming out of the water in front of me. Some landed on deck and more than one hit me. After a while, they became commonplace enough. What surprised me most was just how small they really are.
ReplyDeleteAnother amazing site to see out on the ocean when the sun came up - as far as you could see it looked like someone had dumped a bunch of plastic zip lock bags - floating out to the horizon. Turned out that all those "plastic bags" were Portuguese Man-o-War jellyfish. No matter how careful you were, you'd get stung from tentacles tangled up in the diver's lines as you pulled him up. MSG worked good for neutralizing the sting.