By The Light Of The Silvery Moon-or-Reptile Wikipedia.
 

Betcha I know what the crew is thinking on a beautiful night like this. :yep:

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You snake guys can have rest of the thread for it is more interesting. :rotfl:

yeah the crews thinking,

"Oh god, the Captains got that twinkle in his eye again, well I am not going to sleep first!"

When I go fishing with my buddies, we each try to be the first one asleep. We aren't worried about any of us going gay on the others and we all snore like bears. Only the first person asleep will have a good night. The others will spend several hours trying to remember why we are friends and why we shouldn't kill each other.

Well I ain't going out on a boat with you.

Aw, come on. We do catch fish, and one of my loud snoring partners is the best fish cook I know. He has a ginger, teriaki, garlic, pineapple, and secret ingredient marinate that would make shoe leather taste good. What's losing a little sleep compared to the chance of grilled fresh fish?

I have always wanted to drag bait around your part of the world. It's got to be great. The closest I have come is a ditch in Sumatra, and when I saw the cobra hunter coming out of the weeds with a writhing burlap bag, I went back to the truck.

Cheers

JBC

Why? Cobras are darn fine eating!!! He might have shared.

Cobra might be good. I've had rattlesnake a few times and its ok if cooked properly. And no it does not taste like chicken. It tastes like snake.

The idea of cobras were enough to keep me out of the weeds but it it wasn't, the 6 foot monitor lizard I saw the next day near there surely was. Suprisingly, the locals were more afraid of elephants than snakes. There was an elephant training camp near there but I didn't take the tour. The way you train elephants is to chain one of their rear legs to a post and beat them with a stick for a few weeks until they learn to submit. I didn't really want to see that. I guess the elephants that escaped from the training camp were pretty pissed. One of them came out of the jungle one day and made like he was going to charge the truck. The driver freaked, slammed it into reverse, floored it and smashed into a tree. :rotfl: It was a pretty interesting day.

So this thread has turned into a "snake cuisine" thread. We only have friendly non-poisonous snakes in Australia, so when you ever come here you can pat them. Specially you Jb.... :yep: since you invited me fishing with you.

My apologies, but the web needs a "snake cuisine" thread somewhere, and I had yet to see one. I have cooked snake twice. The first time all I did was skin and gut it and cook it over a fire on a stick, like a marshmallow. This was not good.

The second rattler was given to me to cook, as I had the only experience in the group. I said "snake tomorrow night", and after skinning, cleaning and cutting it into medalllions, I put them to a buttermilk and garlic marinate overnight. The next evening I did sort of a stir fry thing in a hot black iron skillet with tomatos, onions bell peppers and habenero sauce. This was served over pasta with cornbread on the side and was a big hit. I learned to cook in the woods, for some reason its harder in a kitchen.

And Damo, If I ever get to Adaliade you are invited on the boat. If you come to North Carolina, we can fish the wrecks off of the Outer Banks. I am not afraid of snakes if I know they are there. What bothers me is being suprised by them. A 0.3M garter snake scared me out of my grandmother's apple tree when I was six because it suprised me. I fell 6 meters and the snake landed on my face. If I know the snake is there, it doesn't bother me at all, poisonous or not.

In college a friend had a 2 meter boa constrictor named "Julius Squeezer." He could crawl all over me and I didn't care. What bothered me was when I had been sitting on the sofa for a while and my friend would sat: "Hey Jamie, get Julius out of the couch, will ya?" The serpent had been under my butt for hours and now I had to reach my hand between the cushions to try to grab a 6 foot snake. Which part of him I would grab was the immediate question. I only got his head once, and he didn't bite hard but it was enough to put me off of snake hunting.

JBC

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Well this thread turned out... umm.. special... :rotfl:

Glad you liked it, do you want an iguana?

Pssst....Nopileo.....dont take him up on the iguana....they dont taste like chicken either!

JB...........the first time I saw a real live wild snake was two years ago when I nearly stepped on it (brown snake) 2m long makes your garter snake sound like a noodle..what is a garter snake anyhow?...... JB my plans are that I will be hitting European shores or American shores within 2yrs.....must see San Jose play in the NHL though.... where is North Carolina? was it a confederate state?

Good advice Der Schatten; you are correct sir. They do not taste like chicken. In Central America though, they are on the menu in many restaurants, and the locals call them Panamanian rabbit. They don't taste like rabbit either. :stare:

Do they taste like vodka????????? :rotfl: