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 Post subject: blood and scales do matter
PostPosted: Wed May 26, 2010 3:49 pm 
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Current state record menpachi 1lb. 13.5 oz

My menpachi today, 1lb. 13.28 oz.

blood and scales do matter :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: blood and scales do matter
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so where is the picture?????

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 Post subject: Re: blood and scales do matter
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oncd again, DT injects mercury in his fish to increase its weight, or maybe he stuffed it with a roi or 2 :D


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from DT's secretary. :x :lol:

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Should have shot em after he had his dinner. So close!

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Wow, that's a phat Menpachi!!


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Hey! No call my friend Pha.... Oh, never mind. You're talking about the menpachi.

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Thanks Shallowman. :lol:

The thing about this fish was not the length, but the girth, it was amazingly fat...the one next to it is your common large specimen menpachi....but this one dwarfed it. When I cut into it to gut it, it was really waxy/tons of fat, nothing in its stomach either.....the fat content was so high, I thought about making sashimi out of it....but thought about the bones and then was like, better not...tonight I will fillet it though, and see if I can get some boneless pieces out of it, never tried raw menpachi before.

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 Post subject: Re: blood and scales do matter
PostPosted: Thu May 27, 2010 10:07 am 
darrell...
did you overfish the rois and have to shoot menpachis?!

ha ha ha. j/k. that's a fatty!


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roikiller wrote:
that's a fatty!
HEY! No call my friend a fatt... Oh, never mind. You're talking about the fish. :lol: So what DT, you looked inside the cave and this one just stood out from all the rest or had others -- or I bet this one was kind of solitary.

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Nice one Darrell. That's my daughter's favorite and she would love those eyes!


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 Post subject: Re: blood and scales do matter
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Roikiller, the rois at this spot were pretty educated, and even more so after we shanked a few shots :oops: .

Shallowman....traditionally, these kinds of extra large menpachis are solitary, the bigger they get, the more solitary they get for some reason....saw it as I was diving over a hole, in 15 to 20 ft of water....he emerged from the hole and when I looked down I thought, hmmm, fry fish awright!!, then I noticed his girth....was absolutely astonishing.....I put the full on "Roi Stalk" on him with my 9 ft kawabunga, approached the hole just like I would do with a roi, to get the surprise element, shot him head on as he was looking at me, two prongs entered his face, exiting his tail.

Thought about mounting it, but it isn't a state record, my funds are going into flying inter-island this summer...and most of all...I want to eat it. :D ....the fat content is just amazing, after cleaning it, the water just beaded off my hands cause they were greasy.....amazing.

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 Post subject: Re: blood and scales do matter
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Wow...That's a huge menpachi.

I've never seen any of any fat contents in a fish the way you describe. Kinda like wild pigs and their fat contents.

Congrats.


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gyotaku print would have been nice too :lol:

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gyotaku print would have been nice too :lol:

thought about it...but the true beauty of this fish is in the girth. :shock:

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