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This Recipe Provided by
FireMedic124 from CharlestonFishing.Com
Shrimp Pot Pie
Ingredients:
1 egg
1 tablespoon water
4 sheets puff pastry, thawed (Pepperidge Farm works
good, Grocery
store freezer section)
Flour, for work surface
10 large shrimp, cleaned, use more if you want
cayenne pepper "to taste"
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 small carrot, diced
1 celery stalk, diced
6 mushrooms, sliced thin
2 sprigs fresh thyme
1/2 cup white wine
2 cups heavy cream
Salt and freshly ground white pepper
Special equipment:
3 and 4-inch metal pastry ring or something that
equals
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. In a small bowl,
whisk egg and water until well blended. Lightly dust
work surface with flour. Unfold puff pastry and dock
dough with a fork. Using a 4-inch ring, cut 16
circles. Set 4 circles on a nonstick baking sheet.
These are the base of the pot pies. Discard scraps.
Using a 3-inch metal ring, cut circles in the center
of the 12 remaining circles. Remove 4 of the 3-inch
circles to the prepared baking sheet. These are the
tops. Brush the outer edge of the 4-inch circles
with the egg wash. Lay 1 of the 12 rings on top. Brush
egg wash on that ring and place another ring on top.
Repeat 1 more time until you have 3 rings stacked on
top of each other (make sure they are straight
otherwise leaning tower of pizza). Repeat with remaining circles until you have 4 assembled.
Brush the edges and tops with egg wash and bake in
the middle of the oven until golden, about 20
minutes. Meanwhile, season the shrimp with cayenne
pepper, salt and black pepper. In a medium saucepan
over medium-high heat, add oil and 1 tablespoon
butter. Sauté the shrimp, 1 minute per side. Remove
shrimp and set aside. Add remaining butter to the
pan and sauté carrots, celery, mushrooms, and thyme,
until softened about 10 minutes. Add wine, bring to
a simmer and cook until most of the wine has
evaporated. Add the cream and bring back to a simmer
until the sauce thickens to a gravy consistency,
about 12 to 15 minutes. Place the shrimp back into
the sauce to coat. Remove thyme and season with salt
and white pepper. Ladle the shrimp mixture into the
pastry puff bowls and top with the smaller puff
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4.24.2008 Volume
IX Issue #16 |
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This Week's Article |
CharlestonFishing.Com and MyFish.com – Fishing for Statistics in SC
Waters
Written By Jeff Dennis
In January and February 2008 Anglers reported catching
127 Redfish, releasing 117 with 58 of those released legal to have
kept. The 2007 catch data has been compiled and released by
MyFish.com with first quarter 2008 catch statistics coming out on
April 15th. These recreational catch stats are available to anyone,
with the theme of anglers assisting fisheries managers. In 2007
MyFish.com became a corporate sponsor of the South Carolina Coastal
Conservation Association and sought guidance from Scott Whitaker,
Tombo Milliken and Mike Able about how best to apply its logbook
data for the benefit of all fisheries.
Captain Todd Stamps and Beau Shiflet are founders of
MyFish.com, a website offering free logbooks for anglers which
benefit the individual angler and provide recreational data for
fishery managers. Stamps summed up MyFish’s mission by saying,
“MyFish.com wants to capture recreational fish data and use it to
help all fish species ranging from blue gill to blue marlin.”
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This Week's News
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DNR Seeks Angler
Support For Cobia Research
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources is seeking
help from anglers targeting cobia to collect DNA samples and to
donate racks of fish caught in 2008.
Research is underway at the Marine Resources Center to
improve our understanding of the life history of this important
recreational species. The samples donated to S.C. Department of
Natural Resources (DNR) provide valuable information about cobia
recruitment, age, growth, and habitat use. In addition, genetic
analysis will help characterize the wild population structure and
identify fish that originated in the hatchery. Angler cooperation is
a vital aspect of DNR’s stock enhancement efforts.
Interested anglers are encouraged to contact DNR’s Karl
Brenkert for additional information at (843) 953-9838, or BrenkertK@dnr.sc.gov.
Free collection kits may be picked-up and dropped back off once full
at Lowcountry Marine Supply on Robert Smalls Pkwy in Beaufort,
Glidden Paint on New Orleans Rd in Hilton Head, or DNR’s Waddell
Mariculture Center on Sawmill Creek Rd in Bluffton. Participating
anglers may also submit their collection kits by mailing to DNR:
attn Karl Brenkert, P.O. Box 12559, 217 Ft. Johnson Rd, Charleston,
SC 29422. Cooperating anglers will be sent a reward of a hat or
t-shirt for their donations.
Anglers who wish to participate in the fin clip program
will be provided a collection kit, at the locations noted above,
that includes 10 small vials and a data sheet with instructions on
how to collect the samples. Fin clips can be taken quickly and
easily with no harm done to the fish itself, yet they contain all
the DNA necessary to characterize the population. Because sampled
fish can be released alive, this method is ideal for fish under the
minimum size limit and for those anglers practicing catch and
release.
Anglers who wish to keep their catch are asked to drop
off the filleted rack in one of our collection freezers. There is no
need to take a DNA sample of these fish. Freezers are located at
Edisto Watersports and Tackle on Edisto Island, B&B Seafood at
Bennett’s Point, Port Royal Landing Marina in Beaufort, Hilton Head
Boathouse on Hilton Head Island and at the DNR’s Waddell Mariculture
Center. Racks should be placed inside a garbage bag with an ID card
that includes the anglers’ name, the capture location and date, and
length and weight of the fish. Blank ID cards are located inside the
freezers and can be filled out at the time of drop off. From these
racks, scientists will be able to utilize the otilith (ear bone) to
assess age, gonads to assess sexual maturity, stomach contents to
assess feeding habits of cobia, and liver tissue to determine
genetic characteristics.
DNR protects and manages South Carolina’s natural
resources by making wise and balanced decisions for the benefit of
the state’s natural resources and its people. Find out more about
DNR at www.dnr.sc.gov.
Dolphin Reseach
Newsletter
Marine Anglers, T’is the season!
I was pleasantly surprised last weekend on a trip to
Cape Canaveral to deploy a satellite tag purchased by the Central
Florida Offshore Anglers and the Florida Sport Fishing Association.
Upon arriving at Port Canaveral, the first thing that I saw was a
charter boat unloading a huge catch of mega dolphin. I didn’t see a
fish less than 15 pounds and the largest was pushing 60 pounds. The
next day’s fishing was nothing short of outstanding. Big fish were
everywhere and we were able to deploy not just the Cape’s tag but an
additional satellite tag as well.
This big run of large dolphin came as a surprise to me
because of recent conversations with south Florida charter boats.
The point being that for the previous two weeks dolphin fishing off
south Florida had been reported as spotty at best with only a fair
number of big fish. So it is doubtful that such a large pulse of big
dolphin that appeared off the Cape came from south Florida. This is
one more instance that lends credence to the hypothesis that dolphin
moving north along the U.S. east coast are supplemented by fish
moving from the eastern side of the Bahamas Bank.
Working together, we can figure out many of the
mysteries surrounding dolphin.
Good fishing, Don
Donald L. Hammond
Marine Fisheries Biologist
Cooperative Sciences Services, LLC
961 Anchor Rd.
Charleston, SC 29412-4902
(843) 795-7524
cssllc@bellsouth.net
www.dolphintagging.com
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05:19AM LDT 0.6 L |
11:03AM LDT 4.4 H |
04:59PM LDT 0.7 L |
11:29PM LDT 5.4 H |
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25 Friday |
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05:59AM LDT 0.8 L |
11:42AM LDT 4.3 H |
05:39PM LDT 0.8 L |
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12:10AM LDT 5.2 H |
06:42AM LDT 0.9 L |
12:26PM LDT 4.3 H |
06:25PM LDT 0.9 L |
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27 Sunday |
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12:58AM LDT 5.1 H |
07:30AM LDT 0.9 L |
01:17PM LDT 4.3 H |
07:19PM LDT 1.0 L |
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The Final Word |
This past
week Mother Nature gave us a brief window to get offshore
and go after some trolling action. The tuna bite was really
good with plenty of blackfin and some yellowfin tuna mixed
in as well. There were some really nice catches of wahoo
with some really big fish in the 50 pound and up range.
There were also some good reports of dolphin and they are
starting to show up in better numbers. Some really nice
bottom fish were caught during the week as well with nice
catches of grouper, snapper and black sea bass. Inshore the
trout bite has been red hot with good numbers and some
really big fish. The redfish and flounder are biting well
also. The sheepshead are on the near shore reefs, around the
jetties and are around inshore structures as well. So far
the weather for this weekend looks like it may be good, but
this time of year it is really hard to predict out more than
a couple of days at a time.
Tight
lines…
Andy Pickett
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