Really good to cut them off and use as vegetable:

remove the tough outer sheaths:

And you will have three products.

The one on the left will become decorative plates. The one in middle are male banana flowers which can be dried and used in some recipes. And the one on the right side is the tender portion of the banana heart blossom mentioned in the recipes.

Cut off the base.

Cut off the tip.

Split up and rub some lemon juice.

or chop them up.

and soak in brine and rinse. It has then tons of uses as vegetable, tasty and rich in fibers.

Joe:Now you have the knack of taking beautiful pictures beside from a very good picture demo.
Can I use that on freshly caught large-mouth bass? Went to Nacimiento lake this weekend.

Also know about riding a glider and jumping an airplane in Lodi next to your city?

Benny, one of my dreams would be to do para-sailing or hang gliding. Can't afford it at the moment, both time and money.

Show me your large mouth bass!

I will as soon as my kids wake up.

Joe:
Here's the pic but there's not a size to 'em.
I want to give my kids a surprise birthday present and I think this is one that they will remember for the rest of their lives or a present that they did so well in school.
It is not really that expensive. So do you have a flyer where and telephone number I can get in touch with?

Wow those are decent sizes! That would go well with the banana heart blossom recipe! They sure would remember the fishing. Whenever I introduce kids to fishing, I teach them bluegill fishing, and if I want to talk with my kids, we go for catfishing in the late PM to early evening or trout fishing. I usually catch carps and use them as my chum bait for crabbing.

I only catch LM bass by accident, usually when fishing for crappies, I mainly fish for trout (mainly Donaldson cuttbows, brown, brook, rainbow), bluegills, catfish, carps, crappies, kokanees and SM bass in freshwaters. Sometimes I do sturgeon, salmon or striped bass when they are on the run in the rivers.

I go ocean fishing on party boats twice a year, except that time when we went out on your boat, I fished 4 times in the ocean that year.