How to Blacken Fish: Easier Than You Think!
You don’t need to be a chef to enjoy blackened fish, you can easily do it on your own with these helpful hints. Cooking the fish outdoors is the best way unless you have a good vent above your stove that can catch the smoke and keep the smoke detectors from sounding. To cook outdoors it is simple, use any flat surface pan that won’t be ruined by the grill, heat the pan over the grill for approximately 5-10 minutes. This will get the pan nice and hot. Begining with a hot surface is important as it keeps the fish more firm and it won’t fall apart when cooking. If the filet is very thick you may want to consider heating the oven so that after a few minutes on each side on the grill, the fish can be transferred to the oven to cook the middle of the filet with out charing the outside to cook the middle on the grill.
The BreakinLines Difference!
What makes BreakinLines.com different from other websites?
Up to the minute forecasts, when the surf is up, you will know it! No more wondering if or when the other sites are going update their 7am forecasts! If it is up, you will know.
When it comes to fish, no lies… no waiting until all the fish are gone to report that they were here. We will let you know what is biting as it happens!
Snake / Castnet Storage 101
I thought I had seen everything that could happen with a cast net, WRONG. I usually keep my cast net in my boat under my car port. I don’t have a garage to keep it in or anywhere to hang it up without advertising “FREE CASTNET” to all the passers by. Well boat went to the shop so I laid it down in the carport on top of the concrete, 7-8 feet from the nearest tree or grass area. I brought the boat home late last week and forgot to put the net back in the boat before my weekend trip to Pensacola. Yesterday we get home and I go to throw the net in the boat and I see some odd wiggling that was not the cast net line. It was an about 3-foot black racer snake.
He tangled himself beyond belief. It wiggled its way through at least 30 of the holes and there was no possible way for it to escape. Like throwing your net on top of a school of sail cats, it was the net or the snake. I chose net lucky for the stupid snake. 
It’s not over yet though, I get out the cutters and begin cussing and cutting my net bit by bit to access the ones that the snake is wrapped around. Mind you the snake twisted the net to no end and I couldn’t only cut the ones around the snake. So its about 8pm, getting dark, mosquitos are TERRORIZING me, I am cussing up a storm and as the snake becomes more loose it starts striking at me 
so I call Sam (wife) out to entertain the snake as I attempt to free it from its nest of death. About 20 minutes later I clip the last bit and the snake races toward Sam and out the gate toward freedom. Then I waltz off to the dumpster and lay my net to rest.
Fishing Report 6/2/08
The shipping canal was lit up with fish this past weekend. Saw lots of mullet and reds in the residential canals yesterday (Treasure Island). Received a good report from Jeff down in Boca Grande, tarpon and sharks, check it out in the comments section! Thanks Jeff and keep them coming!
My cousin Keith is in town this weekend. We are going to be getting out a couple times. Expect some good reports from me this weekend.
Surf Report 6/2/08
Upham Beach 9:37am report. Surf is flat. Some small but decent skim lines coming on shore. Best shot at surf right now is around late Thursday and Friday. I think there is a decent shot of getting some surf on those days so we will keep you updated. Got a surf story to share with us? Send it in and we will post it on the web page!!!