Thread: Which are DO NOT EAT fish?

thanks for the video.

Originally Posted by Sean

In Mississippi we call freshwater drum Gaspergou ( gas-pa-gou-la)

Yes we do have some strange nick names for fish

Originally Posted by DUCK

Easy way to catch gar. Take about 1ft of nylon braded rope, tie a knot in one end and brush out the rope. Fold it over to the knot tie your line and look for a gar on top of the water. The teeth will tangle in the rope.

That's the way I used until I got a bow for bowfishing. If you have a good bow it will go through their armor. Parts of the fish river are infested with small gar sometimes and they'll either sit on the top or come up for air and I can get a shot

Just so you all know - Remoras are as good, fried, as any fish I've ever had! They don't have a whole lot of meat, in relation to their overall size, so you have to catch big ones to make it worth it. The flesh is firm and white, with no aftertaste! A+
I had Remoras twice last year. Don't call remoras a trash fish if you haven't put in in the frying pan.

On the grill, Pompano is my favorite, with black drum (small, of course), and flounder and large whiting as next-to-faves.

Originally Posted by eym_sirius

Just so you all know - Remoras are as good, fried, as any fish I've ever had!

I've been saying this for years. Their meat is indistinguishable from cobia.

Originally Posted by Pierless

I've been saying this for years. Their meat is indistinguishable from cobia.

Thank you for this public service!
;-) lol

#r, are the two fish related? They do sort of favor one another in a distant kin sort of way.

Originally Posted by divedeep

#r, are the two fish related? They do sort of favor one another in a distant kin sort of way.

Yes. Based on anatomy and DNA, cobia and remora's are closely related to each other, and distantly to Jacks as well.
There are two "free-swimming" species of remora in our area, the 6 other species found in the Gulf only attach to whales, porpoises, marlins, swordfish, turtles, manta's & sharks, and these species are very specific to what they attach to.

Yesterday I saw an albino remora on a leopard ray. White all over. Sure do wish I could have caught him and added him to my trophy remora collection.

Any of y'all eat croakers? Read some where there was an easy way to clean them