Barracuda On The Rocks
Aah, Biscayne Bay.
Sure it’s slowly turning into a chemical soup and bacterial cesspool full of algae blooms and fecal cauliflower big and nasty as a snorkel trip through a septic supertanker, but for now, there’s still a lot of good fish in there, and even some seagrass on the flats keeping the water clear and the tiny creatures protected in the nursery of the sea.
Any given day of the week you’ll find fishermen on the shoreline casting out and pulling up both sport fish and dinner fish just like people been doing for millions of years or whatever it is.
Check the cuda scales on the coral. Shallow pool of blood and ocean in a rocky bowl.
Most people don’t eat barracuda. Most people, it would make them sick. Cudas eat reef fish. People can’t eat reef. That’s why reef been around so long. Reef contains poison, which helps it support all that life.
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Some people can eat barracuda. But it’s gotta be cut right. It ain’t your average fish fillet.
Not too many people know how to do it, and even Ernest Hemingway would tell you who he’d probably go to first.
Anybody with an expression like a shark and salt water in their orbitals, a Caribbean fish scaling spoon, a gold watch, a blade like a razor, and a chain flashy enough to catch a fish’s attention from up the water line.
Barracuda fish love silver flashing objects glinting in the sun. Reminds them of what they eat.
What they eat till the day somebody eats them first.
Shoutout fishing off the rocks on Biscayne Bay. Time honored tradition that hopefully keeps going another million years, or whatever it is.
