Re: Blue Fish
[Re: cmcf]
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05/29/21 03:50 PM
05/29/21 03:50 PM
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River Birch
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Broiled blue fish is delicious. X2
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Re: Blue Fish
[Re: Choo]
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05/29/21 04:00 PM
05/29/21 04:00 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 4,173 uniontown pa
gutthooked
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I'd rather eat yellow fin.....
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Re: Blue Fish
[Re: VH60]
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05/29/21 05:45 PM
05/29/21 05:45 PM
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Joined: Jan 2018
Posts: 154 West Virginia
Choo
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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 . 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.
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Re: Blue Fish
[Re: Leftlane]
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05/29/21 10:34 PM
05/29/21 10:34 PM
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Joined: Oct 2015
Posts: 3,077 Wyoming
cmcf
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What are yall talkin about I guess I don't know. Blue cats? I eat them. I also eat white bass and everyone tells me they aren't any good 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!
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