President Message
State Board Presidents Message for November,
Chapters,
November is here and what is there you can do to get outdoors? There is clam digging, crabbing, and squid jigging. Not salmon fishing but something fun to do. Its also winter time and time to cook some of your catch bounty from the fishing season.
My wife just cooked fish tacos made from Lingcod. They were so great. Instead of corn oil we used beef tallow. Costco sells a pretty good-sized bucket now at the business Costco. The tallow gave a better flavor than corn or vegetable oil, which now is shown to be unhealthy for you. We switched to Panko breading years ago as I am not a fan of batter breading. I burned out on it years ago. Panko is our favorite. Fish tacos are so good. Everyone loves them and same with the fish and chips we make.
Other options over the winter is to find things that the grand kids like to do. Get them out clamming or crabbing. We can’t get enough of that. The little ones tell me how they are going to take their kids out and do this when they get bigger! They learn so much from this and we teach them about the outdoors and environment. Such as crabbing when you bring up hermit crabs, starfish, eels, octopus, or pollack in the crab pot. This is really intriguing. The things we have seen over the years and have been accustomed to is a new world for them such as seeing whales, Orcas, dolphins, seals, and sea lions that none of their friends get to see or hear about. They take this back to their classrooms and get questioned heavily about this. The young classmates don’t get to hear or see this nowadays e as most parents don’t do this. It is so great to hear what we have taught them and how they tell the story of what’s really going on in our waters. Their friends just eat this up as well as the teachers.
Use this time to take them out again. Ours help do the catching and cleaning. Next is teaching them how to cook it. I think a big pot of clam chowder is the near future with them helping make it. Think back to when you first got to do this. Learning a world that is so different and why we still do this to this day. Its about our kids and future generations that we need to pass on this knowledge and connection to the outdoors to save our resources to continue to have them into the future.
Join your local PSA Chapter as we are one of the biggest groups fighting to keep us all on the water. We owe it to our kids and grand kids.
· Ron Garner President PSA