Oyster season is on, and once again about half the boats on the coast are here because San Antonio Bay is open to oystering while many bays are closed. Sometimes you can count a dozen and a half boats out there working. At sundown, everyone heads for the harbor. We had a pint of oysters last week, and they were very good. I can recommend an oyster from **Adrift anytime.
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Are they sold every day?
What's the best time to be there?
How much?
Yum! are they fat and salty this year? I'd consider buying a sack off a boat, but I'd have to shuck 'em and leave the peels down there, as they'd start to attract some real attention around my apartment after a few days in the sun......
EA – I just buy mine at Chunky Monkey's, right on the street going to the harbor. They seem to have them all the time now. I paid $9 for a shucked pint. They are saltier than last year, still small, but very flavorful. You could probably buy a whole sack off the back of a boat, but I've never done that. Might consult w/The Pilot.
It was the miser in me talking......I have oyster knives, and the experience that goes with them. Sitting on a board hunched over a pile of oysters for the required time to get a sack(5 qts) or a "fish house gallon", opened is another story. It suddenly comes to mind how much my back hurts after that little exercise.....not to mention that if this old pirate were to make just one slip with the knife, with no medical coverage.....well, let's just say I doubt I could afford oysters at that price. I'm with The Loon..... I s'pect I'll just run by and see Janie. .....besides I have no place to put up a gallon at the moment, and the while my boys still politely decline.....others I know still regard them as snot rocks. They will find out and regret one day, just how many times they stubbornly refused a wonderful treat from the sea....
On a similar note, I see the boats working that reef adjacent to the Port Lavaca fishing pier park, when passing Alcoa and crossing Lavaca bay on my way home. I was just wondering - is the price the same on those glow in the dark oysters? That they are even there, makes me think twice about maybe just taking my boat out in San Antonio bay and cooning my own, so I'll know which reef they came from.
Thanks, Loon. I will check that out. A pint is fine--my mother is the only one who eats them, and it would be a treat for her.
Pilot -- from the Port Lavaca Wave:
Luis Miguel Mendoza, 25, Port Lavaca, arrested by Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPWD) for oystering in a restricted area.
Fabian Flores-Cruz, 23, Port Lavaca, arrested by TPWD for oystering in a restricted area.
Armando Geronimo-Vidal, 24, Port Lavaca, arrested by TPWD for oystering in a restricted area.
Aldo Guadalupe Rodriguez, 23, Port Lavaca, arrested by TPWD for oystering in a restricted area.
Well, I haven't seen any charts detailing what bays are open and which ones or parts of them are closed, but common sense tells me that if you can see the smoke from the bauxite smelters, and can see the waterline on the sides of shiploads of ore, that you are probably within the perimeter of a yet active Superfund cleanup site. Those guys probably would have considered human or narcotics trafficking as opposed to dragging their dredges within grenade lobbing range of the causeway. Apparently nobody has told them that TPWD laws and fines make INS and ICE violations look like parking tickets by comparison......
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