Gearing up for gurnard

[Aiala]

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

You're welcome, Dom. Did you also keep and eat puffers (blowfish)? For several years they were so plentiful you could hardly catch anything else. I always used to toss them back as well, although I know that some folks ate the (drumstick-like) tails, which they called "chicken of the sea".   

~A~

[Dominick]

Yep! this was when I was a teen fishing off the surf in NJ.  My mother was a whiz in the kitchen.  Old fashion Napolitano and Calabrese cooking.  Dom

[Alto Mare]

Dominick, I thought you were Siciliano, now I know why you're a capa tosta  .

[alantani]

i'm thinking carbontex drag, two stiffer bellevilles, a topless frame and 3/0 grip with a stainless steel arm!   

[MFB]

Working on that Alan, unfortunately I have some other family expenses that have taken my play money away at the moment. I never had a gurnard pull string yet, but would like meet one that does. You get the odd trevally that grabs your gurnard rig and that's a lot of fun.

Rgds

Mark

[jonnou]

I have pulled one up from 360m and it was Fluorecent  like a Highlighter
must have some Photos somewhere
I was going to send them to the scientists untill I googled them and found there range was from 4 to 400m  and the deepwater ones were common in south Austrailia

the key to Gurnard is the prep there are lots of little bones
once you remove those white flaky flesh
sushimi

[MFB]

Always take the pin bones out of fillets. Get most of ours in less than 20m of water, good water for stray-lining snapper too. My friend Sefton caught this snapper from my boat in 11m of water estimated 22lbs it was 750mm long. Strangest thing I have ever caught is a frost fish.

Rgds

Mark 

[Big Tim]

the legs always gave me the creeps anyway .

    Strange little creature

[MFB]

Hi Tim,

They look like this over here. Which is why they are often called carrots...

Rgds

Mark

[Big Tim]

Hi Tim,

They look like this over here. Which is why they are often called carrots...

Rgds

Mark

Thanks Mark, very cool colors...I think I dated a girl in High School that looked like that.

[jonnou]

Nice snapper Mark
would love that frostfish for a Broadbill bait

[MFB]

Hi Jon,

Your welcome to them they're not that good to eat, mind you we were sitting down to a feed of puka and kingfish steaks. That's a hard to top.

Rgds

Mark   

[MFB]

Hi Tim,

They look like this over here. Which is why they are often called carrots...

Rgds

Mark

Thanks Mark, very cool colors...I think I dated a girl in High School that looked like that.

Was she a mermaid?

[jonnou]

Thanks Mark
If you can pre rig them on 400lb with a 16/0  vacum pack  and then you can bring them up april /march
pick a coulple of days with no wind please 

[MFB]

Mate, I live in Palmy if I come up of course it's going to be windy What part of the island are you?

Rgds

Mark