How many of you eat Blue Fish? I am amazed how many people talk bad on blue fish. We keep just about every one we catch. We always cut the red meat out and as far as I'm concerned it's good eating. Obviously there are other fish that taste much better. We really like spanish and trout but we don't pass up a good mess of blue fish to take home and eat on. Maybe my taste buds are off or maybe the majority don't prepare it well. I don't know what do you say?
Also you NC guys what's going on with the population that they dropped the limit to 4? If everyone hates the stuff so bad why is the population crashing? We just spent a couple days at hatteras fishing, was pretty much terrible for 4 days but did manage to land a 33 inch Blue which is by far our biggest and probably the biggest I've ever seen of the surf.

I’ll be honest, I’ve never tried them. Everyone just always said throw’em back, ain’t fit to eat. It’s not like you find them on a menu anywhere around here or South of here.

Broiled blue fish is delicious.

See that “broiled” word just isn’t used down here. It’s either fried or blackened. If it doesn’t eat that way then it’s thrown back or used for bait.

The sports here want to catch striped bass, to them bluefish is a trash fish, a trash fish that is readily caught, fights like crazy, and get pretty big.

While blues aren't top notch fare they're not bad, it's a soft flesh and they need to be iced quickly, the smaller ones are good to eat , cut out the dark meat and the bigger ones are fine, and they all make a great smoked product...

But they still get a bad rap from the elitest bassholes

I'll eat'm every chance I get. As long as they are fresh. Blue's dont freeze well.
I fillet,,skin and cut out all red meat.
They are not here yet. With this Nor-easter.They wont show till the water warms up some.

Fresh Bluefish is great. I grew up eating them. On our rare trip to the coast we look for them.

The small ones up to 20 inches are great. Gutted and grilled they get a crunchy skin, crispy I guess. I ate a lot of them when I was a kid. And back in the '50 a ten pounder would be photoed and put in the news paper, the were monsters then.......jk

My experience has been that as they move up the coast the party boats use chum to attract them and they are just full of that stuff. I find\ them not good to eat, but the small "snapper" blues are far better to eat.I don't care for stripers or mackeral either, Those big blues fun to catch. For eating like haddock the best, also blow fish.

We bleed them before putting them on ice. We vacuum seal and freeze they seem to hold up good but if the seal breaks they do burn quick. Soak it in milk and eggs, then bread and fry. Can't say I pass up much fish wise the worst fish I've ever had was arrow tooth flounder, won't ever buy that again

Blues are a good cut bait but that`s all their good for to me.Much better fish to eat.They are fun to catch.

Lol

Nothing in the world wrong with fresh caught and properly handled blue fish. Fried is my preference. But I would not hit a dead mule in the butt with frozen ones. Nothing but mush when thawed out.

Salt water fish.

Brine in pickling spice and smoke the fillets. Few fish take smoke as well as bluefish.

Seen a landlubber once" Try" to pick up a blue for a picture once. Like I see fresh water bass fisherman do.

The doctors at the Hospital saved his finger.

Learned real young that just about everything in salt water has teeth. Blues are salt water piranhas.

Blues are good eating when fresh. Blue left overs from cleaning make very very good fish oil.

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