Puffers

[mrbrklyn]

I had a chance to boat down to the Jersey Shore this week and ran into a bunch of Puffer Fish.  They have been rare in our waters over the last decade but they seem to be making a come back.

[bluefish69]

MrBklyn

They are not Kosher but I will glagly take all of them off your hands.

Mike

[Bucktail]

I don't fish for them, but I've heard a lot of good reports down here from those who have been targeting them in the bay.

What boat were you on?

[Bucktail]

...it was an unusual coloration for a Sea Robin in the waters of the Jersey Shore.

Looks like the right color to me.

[bluefish69]

They try to blend in to the bottom.

[Bucktail]

Nice.  How far did you come down?  Raritan bay?

[Makule]

What do people do with puffer fish?

[bluefish69]

On Long Island we skin them & eat the beat fish there are. They look like a Chicken Leg when cleaned. No Poison in our Puffers.

I wrote how to clean them somewhere on here. Besides a Knife the most important thing is a rag

Mike

[Jeto]

There was a time while shore casting when all i caught were puffers...around 12-15 pcs.
Nothing else took my bait except puffers.

[akfish]

Interesting aside: I caught puffers while fishing in freshwater for Nile Perch and Tiger Fish in the Nile River. They went crazy for soft plastic swim baits

[akfish]

No the Nile isn't brackish. And to be more specific, I was fishing in Lake Asswan, a dammed up portion of the Nile completely separate from saltwater.