On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:00:42 -0600, Karl Townsend
wrote:

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:45:23 -0500, Ed Huntress
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:29:28 -0600, Ignoramus19207
wrote:

Sometimes, I find it very difficult to clean up my hands after
handling some dirty stuff. Dishwashing Soap and orange lava do not
seem to work very well. Is there anything better. A powder or
different soap or whatever.

Thanks

I like Boraxo for non-oily grime. Ir even cleans off dried bluefish
guts. g It's available online.

Do anything for the smell?

It depends on how long you let that crud stay on your hands or
whatever. After a day of bluefishing, I take a long, hot shower and
figure on sleeping alone that night. d8-)


I always handle the chum, its almost as bad
as bluefish.

It can be worse. If the blues are puking as they come over the side
(common when you're chumming them), or if you're gutting them on the
fly to keep the flesh as good as it can be (I do), the puke and guts
will harden into something like polyester boat resin. The guts will
also strip varnish. I've actually had to use a chisel to get that
stuff off of a boat's gunwales.

Milady won't let me in the house. The neighbors get a
cheap show, I strip just outside and head straight to the shower.

G I haven't tried stripping outdoors. There's a retirement home
behind my house and the old ladies are already kind of frisky.


BTW, we catch a lot of bluefish in Florida Bay and just toss them back
in. I figure the northern New England types must be more desperate for
fish.

You are typical of bluefishermen everywhere -- at least, those who
don't know the secrets to making it one of the best eating fish
around.

I've eaten blues I caught at Key Colony Beach, from the pier. They
were just like the ones we catch up north. But you have to know how to
handle them or they're awful. I can't even stand the smell of them in
a restaurant.

I've completely turned my neighbors around on eating bluefish. Now
they ask when I'm going fishing again.

--
Ed Huntress