Ok I'm reading online about Kings and Spanish not being the best table fare. So, what fish are the favorite that are caught from the pier purely for eating? Someone please get it started and give us your top 5 and worst 3! Thanks in advance
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Ok I'm reading online about Kings and Spanish not being the best table fare. So, what fish are the favorite that are caught from the pier purely for eating? Someone please get it started and give us your top 5 and worst 3! Thanks in advance
King Spanish Sheepshead Whiting Pompano Ling Deff top 5 and i havent tryed on of these yet but worst LY Remora and im not sure
Top 5:
Black Drum, sheepshead, flounder, pompano, spanish mackerel
Worst 3:
Bermuda Chub, Spot tailed Pinfish, remora
Remora really suck!
Ba-dum-bum (rim shot, for those that don't read music)Quote:
Originally Posted by FinChaser
cobe, flounder, pomp, whiting, espaniards
1. Cobia
2. Pompano
3. Flounder
4. Triple tail
5. Whiting
1. Pompano 2. Flounder 3. Mangrove snapper(if you can catch a legal one,kinda small at the pier) 4. Smaller black drum 5. Tie: Sheepshead/whiting/croaker
Worst: Bluefish is nasty in my opinion.
i like Spanish, reds, and specks. They aren't really my favs though. Don't care for kings and I don't cobia fish so I wouldn't know what it tasted like.
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Originally Posted by FinChaser
A LOT like remora ;-)Quote:
don't cobia fish so I wouldn't know what it tasted like.
Pompano, Speckled Trout, FLounder, Redfish, Mangrove Snapper.
Well I've had Flounder and love it. We eat a lot of crappie and shell cracker up here in. Huntsville. I'm looking forward to trying Pompano, it seems everyone likes it. Me and my boy have caught a lot of flounder from the beach. Can't wait til the end of March were coming down and fishing the pier with pier#r one day.
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What did you catch your beach flounder on and what time of year?Quote:
Originally Posted by Blindbat
I'm assuming everyone who is ranking remora low has never eaten one.
Gulp Alive 3" pearl white shrimp on a 3/8 oz. red jig head. Just fish it slow like a worm on bottom. Carolina rig works too. We were there in early October. It's usually good in April-May but the Sept-Oct is the best. We have change our summer vacation to early spring and fall because we can go to the beach twice for not much more because of the offseason rates and the fishing is good.Quote:
Originally Posted by chillinfish
I can't understand those that say the kings aren't good eating. grilled mackerel steaks are hard to beat.
You made me a beliverQuote:
Originally Posted by Pierless
Anyone who says Spanish and kings aren't the best table fare, just needs to learn how to cook them. Spanish are fantastic grilled, broiled or fried. And small Spanish macs make great sushi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blindbat
Kings are best grilled or broiled. Try a miso based marinade.
Check out the recipes section.
That said, it’s hard for me to pick a favorite, I like most fish I catch off the pier, they all are a little different. Here's some other fish I have eaten with notes:
Spadefish: Bake the small ones whole (head and all) just scale, gut and season with some salt & pepper. Large ones are best filleted, then bake or fry.
Croakers, whiting and ground mullet. Hard to beat: scale & gut then bake whole. Scale and fry whole. Fillet and fry. Anyway you cook them, they are great.
Sheepshead: Bake the small ones whole (head and all) just scale, gut and season with some salt & pepper. Large ones are best filleted, then grill, broil, bake or fry.
Slot Reds and Puppy Drum. I like to take a big fillet and poach in a mixture of soy sauce, dashi stock, sake, sugar and ginger. Smaller ones are great fried. Grill the big ones “on the half shell” with some Tony’s Seasoning.
Jack Crevalle: Has a texture like pork. I cut the meat into chunks and used it in gumbo, chowder and fish curry.
Flounder: 1 million ways to cook it, hard to mess this one up.
Bluefish and big Hardtails: Fillet them, cut out all the red meat and then fry them up. A little stronger than other fish, but then should fish taste like fish???
1.whiting 2.white trout 3.flounder 4.speckeled trout 5.cobia
and slot red almost breaks the list lol
i think bluefish are good if you bleed them when you catch em and cook them right
Top 5 Pompano, Flounder, Whiting, Spade, Sheephead. Although I'm sure Cobia are good, I'v just never caught one. Most fish are good if you clean and cook them right. I cant say that about Ladyfish I tried to cook one, it was nasty.
Another note: fresh ground mullet and white make great sashimi/sushi! Flounder does too.
LYs are the most eaten of any fish that I've seen caught on the pier.
This man speaketh truth. If fish x turns out inedible, it is just a matter of preparation not being suitable. You could grill a piece of sirloin beef until it is flavorless rubber, but that doesn't mean it could not have been a delicious burger.Quote:
Originally Posted by CarlF
Hey Cap, I'll trade ya a sirloin fer a couple of remos any day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pierless
I KNOW how to cook those ;-) LOL
Remora are hard to mess up, I was thinking more about bluefish, kings, and jacks requiring a bit more effort. The only bad thing about keeping remora is the mockery! Even though I know they are delicious I still can't bring myself to keep them most of the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pier#r
