4th Annual Christmas Fishing Gathering

Saturday, December 19, 2008

Come, enjoy and relax with some fine fellowship during this Christmas Season. Here's the Shore Lunch Menu for this year's Gathering:

• Wild Shiitake Mushroom Soup with Sherry
• Seasoned Wild Venison Tenderloin Medallions
• Smoked Wild Turkey Hen Breast with Sheep Cheese
• Smoked Wild Steelhead Filet and Caviar on Crackers
• RBF's Ungodly Jack Daniel's Christmas Eggnog
• Gran Pescador Really Hard Cider
• Hot Coffee and the Fair Maiden's Christmas Cookies

Steelhead in Arduous Conditions

The Chief's first steelie on 20Mile this year.

Bunyan and the Chief took a couple of days and enjoyed some fishin, fellowship and the Chief's Hard Cider. The waters of 20Mile were low and clear. Nobody was catchin fish except the Pro Staffers and that's the square truth. The Fish Motel at Poor Richard's was nearly empty. The Flatlanders were swooshin wadin chasin all the fish to the boys. The boys then just stealthfully dead drifted some tiny contraptions their way then politely announced, "Fish on!"

"Fish on!"

Happy Bunyan will eat good tomorrow.

Seems the Bunyan forevermore has problems starting his ungodly F-150, you know, the one that smells like roadkill. Seems the starter was fried this time. Try stuffin the Bunyan and all his gear into a Camry. It wasn't pretty.

Before: Steelhead

After: Steelhead

The Chief's recipe for smoked steelhead and steelhead caviar will appear in the RBF Pro Staff Cookbook: Recipes for a Good Day.

Coming soon RBF Cookbook

Any recipe provided by Bowhunter is truly an arduous feat. It takes true dedication to prepare meals fit for the RBF Pro-Staff.

Step one: Plan a buffalo-hunting trip deep into the plains country in the dead of winter.
Sub zero temperatures will aid in the transportation of all meats, only flatlanders permit others to process the game. After all the planning of the hunt why would you trust anyone other than a certified RBF member to handle the most important step, proper cutting of all choice cuts.



Bison Pot Roast – Serves 8 or Wade Rivers

8 – 10 lb Bison Roast.
3 T. olive oil
2 C water
2 T Season Salt
2 - 4 cloves crushed garlic (per taste)
3 T Possum pepper
3-5 chopped celery stalk
1-bag baby carrots
2-3 Large Vidalia onions
5 lbs potatoes

Preheat oven to 300 F. Add Olive oil and Bison roast and brown well on all sides. Add seasonings and cook for 2 hours. Remove from the oven and add potatoes and sliced onions. Cook for 2 hours. Add carrots and diced celery and cook until meat is tender and falls apart. Remove from oven and prepare for a meal fit for kings.

Chief's Wild Mushroom Farm

Since the Chief installed a geothermal heating system, he needed something to do with the vast quantities of firewood produced on his property. He decided to start wild mushroom farming, growing oyster, shiitake, hen of the woods and sulphur mushrooms. This season, enough logs were plugged to produce over 500 pounds of wild mushrooms over 5 years. The farm will be greatly expanded next season.

Late spring crop of oyster mushrooms

November rains and cooler weather provoked the shiitake plugged logs to produce another crop

Fall Scenes - Allegheny National Forest

Early snowfall at Pig's Ear

The other Spring Creek near Hallton

Head shot. Not one ounce of wasted meat.

Pop and his acorn fatted doe, one day shy of his 87th birthday.

Small World

The Chief stopped in the Ultimate Angler in Erie at lunch to get the scoop on the tribs and who in the hell was at the counter describing raccoon skinnin methods....Bunyan!

RatherBFishin with the Girls

Spending a day on the stream with my beautiful girls on a beautiful, crisp Fall day is just dandy. Just like the Old Man said to the Boy, "We're rich."

The apple does not fall far from the tree.

My girls.

The Fair Maiden with the catch of the day.