Gearing up for gurnard

[MFB]

Spooled my "new" charter special today with 15lb Berkley trilene. Roll on summer.

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Mark

[Mudguts]

Nice reel.. Popular over here in oz for chasing gummy and snapper

[MFB]

What are gummy?

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Mark

[Mudguts]

What are gummy?

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Mark

gummy shark ( flake).. Fantastic eating they are too.

[MFB]

Right, we call them greyboy's here, we don't usually take them though.

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Mark

[jonnou]

I didn't Know they had summer in Palmerston north
good luck with the carrots
Jon

[MFB]

We do Jon, you can tell it's summer because the rain is warm. The people are friendly & having spent 15 years here it's now my adopted home town. It only takes an hour to get to the Wanganui ramp too.

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Mark   

[Dominick]

What are gummy?

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Mark

They are like gummy bears but shaped like fish instead.    Dominick

[MFB]

What are gummy?

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Mark

They are like gummy bears but shaped like fish instead.    Dominick

I'm not as green as I am cabbage looking

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Mark

[jonnou]

Nice one Mark
you deserve a couple of gurnard after a tow of an hour
where was your original home town?
promise I won't make fun of it
By the way I was born in Dargaville

[MFB]

Wellington for my first 27 years, and then moved over to the Wairarapa (Masterton) for 5 years then I got a job in Palmy and I'm still here but working for a different (better) company.

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Mark

[Aiala]

I used to catch gurnards all the time as a kid fishing for fluke in the Great South Bay. We called them sea robins, and always threw them back. Who knew they were good to eat??   

~A~

[Dominick]

I used to catch gurnards all the time as a kid fishing for fluke in the Great South Bay. We called them sea robins, and always threw them back. Who knew they were good to eat??   

~A~

I used to catch sea robins as a kid and my mother would bread and fry the tails.  They looked like drumsticks when cooked.  They were really good.  I did not know until today that the fish is called a gurnard.  Always learning stuff on this site.  Thanks Aiala.  Dominick

[MFB]

We have a few names for them too, grunters (they croak like a frog when you take them out of the water). Or carrots due to their orange colour.

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Mark

[the rockfish ninja]

I too am astounded that they are good eating and that anglers even pursue them. When I lived on the east coast we would catch them and toss them back, the legs always gave me the creeps anyway .
New one on me.