Another way to get food !

pitdog

pitdog

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I'm sure it's been mentioned before but waiting for another animal to make a kill and then chasing it away is another way of gaining food in a survival situation.
I did this today after watching a seagull catch a fish, it flew off and landed twice before ditching it's meal.
I'm not sure what kind of fish it is but I'm sure it would be edible and very welcome if you were starving !
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Maisy said it was edible and she is'nt often far wrong !!!:D
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Sneaky but effective.

I used to do something similar as a kid to get worms to go fishing. I'd wait on the lawn while a bird pulled one from the ground then scare it away and claim the worm. Not sure it was the most efficient way to collect worms but it was kind of fun. :D
 
Looks like a ling, but they're not a surface fish. Not sure how a gull would get one but they do float when they're almost dead...still good eats though !
 
DeadeyeLefty said:
Looks like a ling, but they're not a surface fish. Not sure how a gull would get one but they do float when they're almost dead...still good eats though !
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The gull seemed to find it amongst some rocks at the oceans edge, it was still alive but didn't look too well, I just put that down to having a gull chew on it for a couple of minutes !!!
 
I believe it is a sculpin, possibly a tidepool sculpin. Around the Puget sound they are commonly refered to as bullhead sculpin. Most commonly caught while fishing for salmon from the piers or shore ,and retrieving too slow, or fishing to deep, which is why I catch them so often.
 
I have no idea about the common names you guys use for that kind of fish but... be carefull.

Some of the box shape headed species can be related to Scorpaena Scrofa and if you get stung by the poisonus spines you get like 12h of pain (trust me on that). Dogs, due to being smaller, can suffer even more. That fish DOES NOT look like one, though. I have never seen anything like that here in Spain.

Mikel
 
See now I was gonna guess Sculpin, we have them here in Colorado.

I've never seen one that big though.

I'd never set out to eat a Sculpin...in a pinch...who knows.
 
pitdog said:
The gull seemed to find it amongst some rocks at the oceans edge, it was still alive but didn't look too well, I just put that down to having a gull chew on it for a couple of minutes !!!
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I don't think Ling look all that well when they are well.
 
I removed a decent bullfrog once from the jaws of a Northern Water Snake- frog was croaking his heart out! Snake was not happy...

2Door
 
this also works in bars. wait for some guy to buy a woman a bunch of drinks, then chase him off and get her number.
 
I went on a chartered trip for rock fish off the coast of Oregon a few years ago. Somebody, my ex-mother in law I think, caught a sculpin. Man that was an ugly fish. We got back to shore a couple of hours later and the crew unloaded our catch and started fileting it for us. Well when they went to cut into that sculpin it started thrashing around and the lady that was doing the cutting had to bash it in the head a couple of times to kill it.
I mentioned it to a buddy of mine, who used to work on a clam dredge, and he told me that they can live out of the water for several hours. That could explain how the gull came across it. Can anybody confirm what my buddy claims?
 
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