Need some female advice on a hypothetical, please. Say you were away from home for some time on a trip and arrived home to learn that your beloved hubby, after careful deliberation and consideration, had made the executive decision to go ahead and utilize her tub to butcher a respectable-sized tunoid. Would that be a problem of any kind, do you suppose? It is, after all, the logical and most practical best choice, given that the kitchen is not quite properly equipped counterspace-wise to handle such a fish easily. Here's what it looked like. Not a problem, right? I'm kind of hoping a few will reassure me that love conquers all or something....



TIA for any positive reinforcement.

KG

There were several sentences that I was going to use to start this answer but none of them adequately described the breadth and depth to which I would say that I would definitely NOT do what is pictured, in my wife's bathtub. Maybe if she were gone for two weeks and this was taken on the first day of her absence leaving me plenty of time to disinfect the entire area and establish a new identity in Mexico or someplace. I would never let her see it or know that it had been done and I certainly would not have taken a picture of the evidence and put it on the Internet.

I expect to be reading about your untimely demise in the paper soon.

Alan

I have never caught a fish large enough to use the term "butcher." What did that thing look like whole? Wow!

No, you shouldn't have taken photographic proof. Might be admissible in a divorce case.

I have a feeling your wife will show you that those knives can remove more than fins off of a fish...

By the way, we are all working on a giant AR get well card to wish you a speedy recovery.

KG,
That looks like a picture from "CSI"! You might be in DEEP trouble, I'll pray for you.

A woman's tub is a sacred place and you have desecrated it. You in deep shit. If I did that my wife would probably pour gasoline on my scent free hunting clothes to prove a point that some things don't belong in some places....especially when they leave a smell.

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Originally posted by bja105:
I have never caught a fish large enough to use the term "butcher." What did that thing look like whole? Wow!

No, you shouldn't have taken photographic proof. Might be admissible in a divorce case.

I offer this into evidence for the defense. This sucker just would not fit in the sink. Well, the head would...Almost.

There's a bunch of wusses in here obviously. Proudly tell her how you processed the tuna in her bathtub and that tuna sushi is a well known aphrodisiac. In short,"Are you going to eat or bend over?"

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Originally posted by Gatogordo:
There's a bunch of wusses in here obviously. Proudly tell her how you processed the tuna in her bathtub and that tuna sushi is a well known aphrodisiac. In short,"Are you going to eat or bend over?"

I take it you've been divorced a time or two then...

Gidday KG,

Enjoy your divorce. It is a situation much better than it is made out to be. Think about a life with no nagging, no talking to you about "important stuff" while you are trying to watch TV.

There is no bitching about Tuna in the tub or the hairs still in the meat you are puting in the freezer or the mud that has just been walked through the carpet.You can pluck ducks in the washing machine without fear of retribution.

All the money you earn is yours and not being spent on essentials like "nice" vases, high heel shoes, scented wood shavings in the middle of the coffee table. If you end up paying child support treat it as "The screwing you get for the screwing you got!"

The only down side of losing a parasite is you don't generally end up with the kids living under the same roof. For me it is too high a price for freedom.

Treat this opportunity as a get out of jail free card and remember "any man who remarries didn't deserve his divorce.

Happy Hunting

Hamish

I reckon you were being very thoughtful by using the tub - it'll make it so much easier for her to clean up the mess than if you had used the floor.

Well in the spirit of the first post I asked my wife for her opinion.

Her reply was "He is a dumb f*#@". What was he thinking. When you have something like that you get some large trash bags or a cheap plastic tarp, and do it in the back yard."

I have to admit I agree with her... however for a different reason. I would not want my Tuna in the same place I wash my nasty butt.

However in our 26+years of marriage I have never cleaned fish, my wife always does it...

So, If I caught that monster while she was out of town...

Aren't there some guys at the dock hanging around that clean your fish for a small fee?

That is a nice fish.

That is a big fish! That must have been a heck of a fight!

She will get over it.

It reminds me of the time we butchered a hog in a motel room, I am sure they got over it. Why wouldn't she?

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Originally posted by Kamo Gari:

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Originally posted by Gatogordo:
There's a bunch of wusses in here obviously. Proudly tell her how you processed the tuna in her bathtub and that tuna sushi is a well known aphrodisiac. In short,"Are you going to eat or bend over?"

I take it you've been divorced a time or two then...

Yes, but this one likes sushi......

I've butchered all kinds of critters on the kitchen table and counters, but never in the tub. Of course, like a previous poster I've never caught a fish that had to be "butchered."

I wouldn't worry about it, but my wife is pretty forgiving of my addiction to hunting (and to a lesser degree fishing). Besides, unless she frequents AR, what she does't know won't hurt you.

gari - the question you need to ask yourself is why the hell she wouldn't be thrilled as a cheerleader at the homecoming game?

any wife worth having is not only going to uderstand, but also be proud of you. in fact, the only reason she might be mad is because you didn't find a place to keep it fresh until she could come home and help out!

i say this all tongue-in-cheek, of course. love should conquer all and if not, perhaps the fella who took the picture will have a place where you can crash for a few days until it blows over.

heck of a nice fish, by the way!

ron

OK gents, thanks for the advice. Being sometimes a clever boy, I have some mitigating evidence. If I get called on it I will unfortunately be forced to throw someone else under the bus. Which is what I took this pic for, just in case. That's my brother. "Honey, he MADE ME SO IT!"

Sorry, dude. It's a cruel world out there!

I dont think she will mad at all. She will look at the careful consideration you put forth when you elected clean the fish in her tub. Afterall tubs are easily cleaned, you contained the mess into one small area instead of all over her kitchen and it has an exhaust fan to remove any unwanted smells! She should be thrilled at you forethought!
However, I do realize that women think different than us men do. So.. when she blows a gasket give her a few days and she'll get over it. Hell, I turned an armadillo loose on my wife while she was making dinner in the kitchen one evening and she forgave me.

Heck of a fish by the way!

Thing is that tuna have a way of permeating an area with their odiferous post mortem aura. Very high oil content and the gases of decomposition waft through the house and settle out on everything.

And because you two boys did this in an enclosed room you were breathing those gases which will result in several days of oily, sputtering tuna farts.

She'll know something was up, womens noses are hundreds of times more sensitive than mens. Remember how your mom could smell beer on your breath from 100 feet away ?

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Originally posted by Skinner.:

And because you two boys did this in an enclosed room you were breathing those gases which will result in several days of oily, sputtering tuna farts.

Since you are confusing the digestive and respiratory systems, all I can say about this is that I'm damned glad you're not my physician!

KG

YOur story reminds me of an old buddy of mine that used to put his deer in the tub, after they were skinned and gutted of course, he would fill the tub, put salt in it, lay the carcass in the water and let it soak.

Not confusing them on this at all, in fact it may be a combination of both that creates this phenomenon.

You're breathing in the gases of decomposition and absorbing them. Whether through the lungs and into the bloodstream or swallowed and entering the digestive system.

Happens when I skin and flesh a number of gray fox and when I cut albacore. For several days afterwards my farts will smell like gray fox or albacore.

Or muskrats, bobcats, coyotes, rabbits, geese, etc.

Kamo Gari if she has not seen it yet, try to be home when she gets there and tell her, "Before You Go Into the Bathroom, Let Me Explain".

That is what I did to my wife of just slightly over a year when I brought home 5 pronghorn carcasses and had them quartered and iced down in our bath tub in our little apaprtment we were living in.

The hardest part was explaining to her mother just exactly why we were having to drive 20 something miles over to her house to take baths for a couple of days until I could get the biggest freezer tha Monkey Wards sold at the time bought and delivered.

That was almost 16 years ago, we are still together and as she tells everyone, life with me is never dull.

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Originally posted by Skinner.:
Not confusing them on this at all, in fact it may be a combination of both that creates this phenomenon.

You're breathing in the gases of decomposition and absorbing them. Whether through the lungs and into the bloodstream or swallowed and entering the digestive system.

Happens when I skin and flesh a number of gray fox and when I cut albacore. For several days afterwards my farts will smell like gray fox or albacore.

Or muskrats, bobcats, coyotes, rabbits, geese, etc.

Nah, you just ain't scrubbing hard enough in the tub, man.

KG

Personally I would be pissed off !!!!

I would-- in no uncertain terms -- tell my wife "Do you see how you made my beautiful fish smell?"

I'd show her.

Trophyman

My wife would have kill me!GOOD LUCK
MM

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There's a bunch of wusses in here obviously. Proudly tell her how you processed the tuna in her bathtub and that tuna sushi is a well known aphrodisiac. In short,"Are you going to eat or bend over?"

Yeah I highly recomend that one

Ol' Gato will never hear the shot that kills him!

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Originally posted by JTEX:

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There's a bunch of wusses in here obviously. Proudly tell her how you processed the tuna in her bathtub and that tuna sushi is a well known aphrodisiac. In short,"Are you going to eat or bend over?"

Yeah I highly recomend that one

Ol' Gato will never hear the shot that kills him!

Geesh, man, are you sure you're not from one of those effete eastern states and have just moved to Texas? You probably drink Jim Beam with a mixer too......

BTW, to be serious for a minute, why didn't you just clean the fish on top of the ice chest in the driveway. It wouldn't take but a few minutes and then you could just hose the driveway off.

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Originally posted by Gatogordo:
BTW, to be serious for a minute, why didn't you just clean the fish on top of the ice chest in the driveway. It wouldn't take but a few minutes and then you could just hose the driveway off.

You assume that I have a driveway. I don't, nor a backyard. I'm not new to this, just in a slightly different kettle of fish. By the bye, on that day I left the house at 1 am to make a 100 mile drive. Spent 14 hours on the water, covered maybe 120 miles out there. Had another 100 mile drive in front of me. Got home at 11:00 pm wiped out. Fish was bled and on ice, no need to rush. As far as the butchering comment, nope, that fish was taken apart properly. The collars have been cut off and saved for broiling, the loin and belly flap of one side was done and trimmed, and what you see is the ribcage that's been cleaned of flesh with a spoon. Waste not want not. After that pic was taken, the fish was flipped and the other side done. Came out perfectly, if I do say so myself.

The post was just meant to add a bit of humor, and was 100% tongue in cheek. Some of you guys need to lighten up a bit... My wife was in Tokyo when I got busy with Chuckles in the tub. She actually called when my bro' and I were up to our armpits in fishgore. I told her exactly what we were doing, and that I'd have to call her back. She sighed a bit, then giggled, and said to just make sure I cleaned up after myself, and saved some for her. I told her that was not going be a problem. Yeah, I married the right lass.

I'm sure your wife is not going to be upset at all.

I mean, this is never going to happen again once you finish remodelling your old fashioned and limited kitchen.....

Before I comment on anything, I want to know who does that big Shun belong to? You or her?

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Originally posted by Skinner.:Remember how your mom could smell beer on your breath from 100 feet away ?

Ain't that the truth .

Damn nice fish Gari. Hey, just make sure things are cleaned up. If she likes tuna, there will be absolutely no problem. God forbid you don't get things TOTALLY cleaned up however .

Ken....

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Originally posted by miles58:
Before I comment on anything, I want to know who does that big Shun belong to? You or her?

Me. I cut, and she cooks. Works for us.

KG

Nice yellowfin, KG.

Give me some details re: tackle, bait, etc.

I'll be heading out with some friends on a charter from Point Judith in a couple of weeks and would love to follow suit.

Not a yellowfin, Mike. That's a juvie bluefin. Here's what that one would look like in a few years:



We are getting fish from Boone's Isle off NH to the NWC all the way to S of MV and E of Chatham. I fish out of MA normally, so can't help with Rhody waters, but mention the Regal Sword, SWC and Crab Ledge to your skipper. Also, fish being taken, some very, very large, at Peaked Hill to the Race. If he knows it, it may be worth the steam up. There be fish there.

KG

Edited to add: squid bars in black and rainbow have been the hot producers. Even neater, my fish was tagged and I just got the certificate back via email. Thing was tagged on the north coast--of SPAIN! Traveled 3300 miles. Then it met me.

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Originally posted by miles58:
Before I comment on anything, I want to know who does that big Shun belong to? You or her?



Me. I cut, and she cooks. Works for us. Wink

KG

In that case you're probably safe. My Shuns have become my favorites for butchering deer. I can't believe how long they hold a really sharp edge. I would love for them to make a big fillet knife out of that steel.

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Originally posted by Kamo Gari:
Not a yellowfin, Mike. That's a juvie bluefin. Here's what that one would look like in a few years:



We are getting fish from Boone's Isle off NH to the NWC all the way to S of MV and E of Chatham. I fish out of MA normally, so can't help with Rhody waters, but mention the Royal Sword, SWC and Crab Ledge to your skipper. Also, fish being taken, some very, very large, at Peaked Hill to the Race. If he knows it, it may be worth the steam up. There be fish there.

KG

Edited to add: squid bars in black and rainbow have been the hot producers. Even neater, my fish was tagged and I just got the certificate back via email. Thing was tagged on the north coast--of SPAIN! Traveled 3300 miles. Then it met me.

Thanks, KG. I clearly ain't no tuna expert!

Pretty cool info on the tag.

I read of one tagged bluefin that weighed in at something under 40 pounds when first caught and tagged, and that then was caught just a couple of years later around 4 or 5,000 miles away and weighed in at over 250!

Yep. Here's my certificate from the large pelagics folks. Quite amazing. He doubled in size in 3 years. Had I let that one go and he managed to evade predators, nets and other fishermen, he likely would some day have gone better than half a ton. The world record rod and reel giant bluefin is *~1400* lbs. Dat's a lot of sashimi! Oh, and worth a great deal of dough. A buddy of mine took a fish to market some years back and got $30K. Yeah, that's for *one* fish.



Cheers,

KG

I just asked my wife and she shrugged and said it makes obvious sense to use the tub for a fish like that. She wouldn't want to clean it up but had no problem otherwise.

She's OK when I lay deer meat all over the kitchen to cut up too and will even help if asked.

As long as you clean it up, why worry?