My western friends in it's native range swear it's a more desirable, better tasting fish.Are Blues better or worse??
My western friends in it's native range swear it's a more desirable, better tasting fish.Are Blues better or worse??
Blues are way better.Are Blues better or worse??
Where did you buy it?Bought a nice sized filet yesterday, seemed fresh enough, so cut it into "nuggets" and marinated overnight in a honey/garlic/soy/ginger bath.
Fried them just now in an olive/sesame oil blend.
Could have used more ginger but they seem to have turned out OK. Edible, but not impressive.
The Missus likes them, but I still think it's fish
Geresbeck's in Riviera Beach/Pasadena (Wednesday is Senior Day )Where did you buy it?
Try bleeding them out. Make one cut ahead of the tail, and another cut in the gill rakers. Put the fish on a stringer and let it bleed out for 30 minutes or so before icing down. The resulting meat will be flaky white instead of tainted with red. Bleeding also works for Spanish mackerel and blues.We tried eating them, yuck. They were ok if you were really hungry and had nothing else.
There is no size or creel limit so you don't have to keep them whole in case you're stopped by NRP . I fillet mine right on the boat and into a bath of salted ice and water they go. The salt draws out the blood and the ice keeps them fresh.Try bleeding them out. Make one cut ahead of the tail, and another cut in the gill rakers. Put the fish on a stringer and let it bleed out for 30 minutes or so before icing down. The resulting meat will be flaky white instead of tainted with red. Bleeding also works for Spanish mackerel and blues.
Salmonids too. Catch'm-kill'm-bleed'm.Try bleeding them out. Make one cut ahead of the tail, and another cut in the gill rakers. Put the fish on a stringer and let it bleed out for 30 minutes or so before icing down. The resulting meat will be flaky white instead of tainted with red. Bleeding also works for Spanish mackerel and blues.
DNR doesn't have the budget for that. That funding would have to come from MGA. Besides, some species will reproduce faster than you can get rid of them. Look at Grass Carp. Snakeheads too.The problem isnt that there isn't a viable solution.. but because the MDDNR isn't serious about keeping the population in check.
The state of Washington is a liberal utopia and is backward in many ways.. but when it comes to controling the overpopulation of fish species they have the solution that would probably work here.. until Maryland does something similar the blue cat population will continue to grow and so will the problems that go along with it
Well I can tell you this. Catfish will never get the attention that DNR needs to help control the population as best they can...If they don't there won't be much left in the bay and its tribs. Blue cats are every bit as veracious as any other predator fish and their numbers are increasing way faster than snakeheads. Mainly because snakeheads are a target species for many anglers. Catfish are just a bycatch for most and they get thrown back most of the time.DNR doesn't have the budget for that. That funding would have to come from MGA. Besides, some species will reproduce faster than you can get rid of them. Look at Grass Carp. Snakeheads too.
It's a marketing problem. Catfish are delicious. If local restaurants would start serving it the way they pushed rockfish and the way they push crabs, local anglers would go to work. If they can make the fish commercially viable, local restaurants can make them an endangered species.Well I can tell you this. Catfish will never get the attention that DNR needs to help control the population as best they can...If they don't there won't be much left in the bay and its tribs. Blue cats are every bit as veracious as any other predator fish and their numbers are increasing way faster than snakeheads. Mainly because snakeheads are a target species for many anglers. Catfish are just a bycatch for most and they get thrown back most of the time.
The irony is that they WERE commercially viable and there was a huge market for them, then the state changed the rules and ended it. They've since changed them back, but they let a lot of time go and lots of population growthIt's a marketing problem. Catfish are delicious. If local restaurants would start serving it the way they pushed rockfish and the way they push crabs, local anglers would go to work. If they can make the fish commercially viable, local restaurants can make them an endangered species.