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Yellow eyed demons ! I hate those fish with a passion . I fish for striped bass and fluke (summer flounder) and the blues have a nasty habit of chopping off your bait and lures . It costs money and time to re rig . Many times a soft plastic lure with a teaser rigged above it is a fantastic combo for both fluke and striped bass . If blues are around you can count on them destroying that rig immediately . You re rig and wait for them to move on . Then you fish for a while and they come back and you do it all over again . PITA . I don't know anyone who likes the taste of blues . Even handled properly ( bleed them immediately ,gut and put in an ice/saltwater slurry as soon as they are off the hook) they taste like crap compared to other saltwater fish (IMO) . Having said all that they are a hard fighting fish . When friends and relatives come down from upstate to fish and you can't find stripers , blues save the day . They will talk about how hard they fight and how much fun they had for years to come . I may be looking at it the wrong way but they have caused me too much aggravation to like them . As far as eating them , small (8 inch or so) gut head and scale , fry in butter salt pepper pretty good . Small , what are called cocktail blues are good filleted,coated with crushed pork rinds that have been seasoned properly and fried in butter are pretty good . Medium sized blues smoked are good . They do not freeze well at all and they have to be eaten fresh . They have been in here for a week or more and you can't get away from them . They made my last fluke trip aggravating .

I'd rather eat yellow fin.....

Pretty good fish cakes w/out the red meat.

They can eat through a pack of rubber baits in no time flat for sure. So maybe the time factor plays into the fact I like blue fish. If I only have a couple days to put meat in the cooler then blues are an easy go most of the time. I'm sure if I got to fish salt water more then 5-10 days a year then I may be a little more picky. One thing we do that I think plays into better success with us freezing is we towl dry all the fillets before we put them in the vacuum bags so there isn't a lot of ice formation.

i love them. best part is most people go ewe and throw them to me. they also make great sushi.

Small ones fry well.

Fish cakes are good too! Pan sear , shred the fillets, and use them in a good crab cake recipe.

Smoke the big ones, the oil really keeps them moist.

Blue fish aren’t trash fish, if treated properly. Ice quickly and eat them fresh.

John

They are good if you eat them the same day you catch them. The large blues are not as good, but they sustained me in my college years in the late 60s. We had Fall runs of blues from 15-22 lbs back then.

They are good if you eat them the same day you catch them. The large blues are not as good, but they sustained me in my college years in the late 60s. We had Fall runs of blues from 15-22 lbs back then.

Commercial fisherman saw the price drop to $.02/lb once.

Heads make great snapping turtle bait.

Wannabe beat me to it: Salt water peranna. The little ones are called snappers the bigger ones in the 10-15lb
range are called choppers there’s a reason for that. The fool that tried to thumb lip a blue fish that is a kodack moment LoL.
I still say the “broiled “ blue fish I had somewhere up there in New England at a fancy diner that looked like a humongous air stream and had a bunch of well dressed people inside, was freaking AWESOME!

A stinky old sneaker is good smoked. So is bluefish.