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Location: NJ | I use heavy picks if I can't find extra heavy I bought a gross of the Fenders a couple of years ago but can't find the package so I just use my stash of picks that I have laying in the pick pockets of the cases or what I pick up at the Namm shows.
Russ best shrimp I ever had where the ones I got off the dock on Okracoke (sp) island in SC or is is it NC ??? well it was about 15 years ago I steamed them in beer and old bay and they were awesome.
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Location: Central Texas | Used nothing but orange tortex for years. Went through a long time with only one guitar, not hanging around music stores or musicians for years and only had a couple of Fender heavies laying around. Now I can't use anything lighter. |
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Location: NJ | I usually use the .50mm (red) Tortex's.
My favorite shrimp recipe came from Alton Brown ("Good Eats" on the Food Network):
GOOD SIZE shrimpies (around 24 count).
Devein (if neccesary), but leave the shell on.
Toss in a bowl of a little bit of olive oil and a generous dose of Old Bay.
BROIL for a minute and a half on each side.
Throw into a cold metal bowl and pop into the freezer for just few minutes (to stop the cooking process and to slightly "chill").
Peel, eat, repeat.
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | the shrimp boil is shortly after you get here bill.
al, i spent a few wonderful weeks tied up to the free dock in silver lake. rode out emily in broad creek on the south end of the sound from okracoke. i liked that area so much i stayed there for almost a year. and yes the shrimp (and blue crab) from that area are damn hard to beat. ever have the rock shrimp at dixie crossroads in florida? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Okracoke (sp) is in North Carolina half way in the outer banks. A great place for an OFC meeting. |
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Location: NJ | since my lovely and talented wife has been trying to talk me to going back to the outer banks some day I say let's go for it. I have a bunch of surf rods and reels....who will bring the old bay and beer?????? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Now you've tested my memory, there was a song called "Okracoke Turnpike" or some such thing on I think the "Windy and Warm" album or some instrumental 70's guitar album. Anybody remember it? I've got it somewhere but all my vinyl is hard to get to. |
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Location: NJ | Bailey there is only a 2 lane road that stretches the length of the island and it gets washed out in hurricane season. You need to take a Ferry to get there so I am not so sure about any highway. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | these north carolina references are stirring up some really great memories. except for the mosquitos (took lessons from the "body snatchers", those 50's hollywood aliens that had hypodermics that telescoped from their finger tips-------remember them? remember what they injected?). i would love an excuse to visit nc again. the naval architect that designed one of my boats works the oriental area and i'll bet i could even dig us up boat to use. a great place for an ofc party, and plenty of places to play music too.
al i have a couple of nice surf rods that gather dust here (i do mostly trolling and jigging). a nice fenwick 14' with a penn 950ss spooled with 40# mono. it needs a trip and some excercise.
when you come down guys, bring some old bay. there is nothing quite like it. like tabasco sauce stands apart from all the rest, old bay leaves you shaking your head "no" at the rest.
i used to buy frozen chicken leg quarters fer .09 a lb on special and put about 10 10# bags in the huge freezer on my whitby 42. once a week i would bone out a bag, save the meat for stir frys and kaboks and bait two crab traps with the skin and bones. a couple of days later i'd have a couple dozen nice blue crabs. that's a lot of food for less than a dollar. |
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