GillBilly Humor: 2 Story Outhouse

Yep!!! This pretty much says it all......No words necessary!

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

Roderick Haig-Brown

GillBilly Humor: 3 Kids Fishing

Barack Obama was out jogging one morning along the parkway when he tripped, fell over the bridge railing and landed in the creek below.

Before the Secret Service guys could get to him, 3 kids who were fishing below pulled him out of the water. He was so grateful he offered the kids whatever they wanted.

The first kid said, 'I want to go to Disneyland.'

Barack said, 'No problem, I'll take you there in my special Senator's airplane.'

The second kid said, 'I want a new pair of Nike Air Jordan's shoes.'

Barack said, 'I'll get them for you and even have Michael Jordan sign them!'

The third kid said, 'I want a motorized wheelchair with a built in TV and stereo headset.'

Barack was a little perplexed by this and said, 'But you don't look like you're handicapped.'

The kid said, 'I will be after my dad finds out I saved your ass from drowning!'

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.

GillBilly Chronicals: Soldier in Iraq Cultivates an American Soiled Grass Plot

This is a photo of an Army soldier in Iraq with his tiny 'plot' of grass in front of his tent. It's heartwarming! Here is a soldier stationed in Iraq, stationed in a big sand box. His wife sent him dirt (U.S. soil), fertilizer, and some grass seed so that he can have the sweet aroma, and feel the grass grow beneath his feet. Before the men of the squadron leave on a mission, they take turns walking through the grass and the American soil -- to bring them good luck. Sometimes we are in such a hurry that we don't stop and think about the little things that we take for granted. Notice in the photo he is even cutting the grass with a pair of a scissors.

Upon reading this, say a little prayer for our soldiers that give so unselfishly for us.

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. Dave Barry

Another Exciting New Design Introduced in our GillBilly Store!

We keep outdoing ourselves here in GillBillyville as we continue to improve our store and introduce new staples of the “GB BRAND”. Here we have the new Rose design. We are having great fun discovering the innermost essence of this “who knew?” marketing contraption known as “internet marketing.” Though this design are not ready yet for public consumption, er, for you to buy as of yet… we know this new design will thrill both young and old in its unique appeal. Been there, done that, I know, and now we are showing the results of our many days toiling at sea feeling you in our implementation of the creativity we are sharing.
Soon we will be placing your photos on this site wearing our GB gear. Feel free to e-mail us your collection of fish photos caught while wearing and soiling our designer concepts. Your kids we are sure will love Rose, soon we will be sponsoring kids fishing adventures and supplying our shirts at a wholesale price for those events. If you have a youth outing in mind, please contact us and we will make it possible to supply your entire crew with a shirt as a memento of their day out catching fishes. We are available always at the e-mail address billy@gillbilly.com to discuss your needs in this regard, keeping the kids stoked fishing and always aware of the conservation and beauty of our Mother Ocean.

As we gear up we will be offering you more design configurations; tank tops, shorts, and other stuff all replete with the famous GillBilly logo shared here on this site. Click the title above to be instantly transported to our GillBilly store… and visit our CafePress store linked on the right hand margin of this blog to find more choices already made available in the spirit of the GillBilly creed! As our spokesman Pablito says, “Catch and release to keep the Ocean’s peace!”

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.

Harold F. Blaisdell

Another Exciting New Design Introduced in our GillBilly Store!

We keep outdoing ourselves here in GillBillyville as we continue to improve our store and introduce new staples of the “GB BRAND”. Here we have the new Mr. Earl design. We are having great fun discovering the innermost essence of this “who knew?” marketing contraption known as “internet marketing.” Though this design are not ready yet for public consumption, er, for you to buy as of yet… we know this new design will thrill both young and old in its unique appeal. Been there, done that, I know, and now we are showing the results of our many days toiling at sea feeling you in our implementation of the creativity we are sharing.
Soon we will be placing your photos on this site wearing our GB gear. Feel free to e-mail us your collection of fish photos caught while wearing and soiling our designer concepts. Your kids we are sure will love Mr. Earl, soon we will be sponsoring kids fishing adventures and supplying our shirts at a wholesale price for those events. If you have a youth outing in mind, please contact us and we will make it possible to supply your entire crew with a shirt as a memento of their day out catching fishes. We are available always at the e-mail address billy@gillbilly.com to discuss your needs in this regard, keeping the kids stoked fishing and always aware of the conservation and beauty of our Mother Ocean.

As we gear up we will be offering you more design configurations; tank tops, shorts, and other stuff all replete with the famous GillBilly logo shared here on this site. Click the title above to be instantly transported to our GillBilly store… and visit our CafePress store linked on the right hand margin of this blog to find more choices already made available in the spirit of the GillBilly creed! As our spokesman Pablito says, “Catch and release to keep the Ocean’s peace!”

If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.
Jack Ohman

GillBilly Style Spiny Lobster with Tomato Basil Butter Delight

Ingredients

Nothing messes up a delicious lobster more than an overpowering recipe that covers up the mild flavors of the meat. It’s imperative that you cook and eat your lobsters at their freshest, not frozenest. Once they die, the meat degenerates and bacteria grows quickly.
Whack ‘em on the back of the head or place the live lobsters in boiling water to send them to lobster heaven. Save those spiny lobster legs and shells and make a lobster stock with cold water, celery, carrots and onion. Bring to a boil, simmer for 30 minutes, strain through a colander and simmer for 30 minutes more to concentrate flavors. You can also grind up the shells, heat with butter and strain through a sieve into ice water to make lobster butter. It’s good.

I don’t know how big your rock lobsters are, so I can’t tell you how many lobsters to use for the recipe. About 3/4 cup of cooked lobster meat equals 1 pound.

Tomato Basil Butter
makes approximately 1 1/2 cups

1/4 cup dry vermouth
2 tablespoons lemon juice
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 1/2 sticks salted butter, cut into chunks
1/3 cup seeded and diced tomato
2 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped

Instructions

1. Boil lobsters for 3 - 5 minutes, depending on the size of the lobster. Remove from water and place on a firm surface.

2. While lobster is boiling, prepare the Tomato Basil Butter Sauce

Heat vermouth, lemon juice and garlic in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Reduce liquid to 2 tablespoons. Reduce heat to low and add butter, a chunk or two at a time, while whisking constantly. Keep heat low enough so that butter does not boil and separate. Keep whisking in butter until all is emulsified. Immediately remove pan from heat and stir in tomato and basil.

3. When lobsters are cool enough to handle, split lengthwise from head to tail and place on hot grill. Whether you remove the coral, liver, etc is your choice. While grilling, baste tail meat with Tomato Basil Butter. When meat is white or opaque, remove from grill and spoon additional Tomato Basil Butter over.

Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish.
William Sherwood Fox

GillBilly Chronicals: Caught 1 1/2 Miles Offshore - A Deer!!!

"What is that? You pickin' me up Pete?"

"I dunno, no blip on the radar or on the fishfinder."

"Got a visual Pete, looks like a deer...?"

"Got her aboard Pete, get out the scales, this is a whopper, glad we had a camera!"

"How do we clean this catch?"

"Let's just give her a hug and release her onshore..."

This fatigued deer was saved after last years October fire storms off Point Loma near San Diego... needless to say this extremely rare catch was very relieved to be pulled aboard and delivered ashore...

Gone fishin', be back at dark-thirty!