Fish ID

[bigroders]

Hey guys, need a little help with the ID of this fish. It smashed a 120mm halco laser pro in white with a red head, and pulled reall hard for it's size (50cm). it bricked me twice, i had to back the pressure off so it would swim out. also got a bigeye trevally that went 58cm. Wind was blowing around 25 - 30 knots all night.

[jeffo]

blubberlip, painted sweetlip, netted mowong, call em what you like they arent much good for anything except the fight.Was it kept?

[Bonesy]

Speckled Hind!
Caught a heap of them at Stradie.



Bonesy.

[Scott nthQld]

slatey Bream, Blackall, mother -in-law fish (beause you give em to your mother in law) are another couple of names for it. Not the best eating, though I reckon it hints towards a flatty in flavour but nowhere near as good......They certainly do hit hard and put up a good fight though.

[bigroders]

thanks for the replies guys, yes it was kept, but i don't think i'll eat it after what has been said of their eating qualities.(i'll give it away to the neighbours). but i will definately be chasing them again, really great fight they could pull an equally sized jack backwards.

[Scott nthQld]

Don't knock the taste until you try it. It doesn't taste foul or anything like that, just not as good as other species, depending on what your tastes are, you might like it, don't let 2 or 3 opinion from other people (including me in this case) dictate on what you will and won't eat.

[Local_Guy]

i think i cooked up a mother-in-law (morwong) once.. the flesh was thick but dry (not because of my cooking abilities).

i think if cooked a different way, maybe whole on the bbq in foil it would be ok.

[loophole]

crabs might like it yes it is a mother in law aka slate bream

[trev1]

fish cake fish!!!!!! ( well thats what I call them )
cook whole, pull all the flesh off with a fork and mix with mashed potato, egg, diced carrot onion ect make into patties and fry.

[Local_Guy]

fish cake fish!!!!!! ( well thats what I call them )
cook whole, pull all the flesh off with a fork and mix with mashed potato, egg, diced carrot onion ect make into patties and fry.


now that does sound mouth watering

[Moonlighter]

Another old recipe for this fish species (but a good one) is as follows:

1. Fillet fish;
2. Collect large round river rock, wash clean;
3. Place fillets and river rock in large pot of boiling water;
4. Cook for 3 days on high;
5. Discard water and fillets.
6. Eat rock.

Enjoy!

Grant

[DJ77]

good to eat if bleed straight away filleted and skined and cooked in garlic and butter

[Noelm]

Scott has it right, TRY it first, most people whinge about certain fish and reckon they are crap, but have never actually eaten one! it was only a few years ago that Kingfish was almost unmarketable, now they are $15 a kilo whole! so at least give it a try, then decide for yourself.

[breamnut]

why would you keep something if you dont know what it is.
it could be a protected species or poisoness. best to take a pic and release them.
better to be on the safe side

[bigroders]

why would you keep something if you dont know what it is.
it could be a protected species or poisoness. best to take a pic and release them.
better to be on the safe side

because my fishing buddy called it for a slatey. he was 100% sure i just wanted confermation. 8-)

[Captain Jack Zero]

Its a netted morwong.it is not poisonous.

[435_Mark]

I've actually found them to be delicious! Cooked up in butter and lemon juice in alfoil they are sensational. Like a lot of fish that get a bad rap you have to try them first. I'll admit I was a little doubtful myself

20 years ago people would turn their nose up at "Cockies" (Venus tusk fish) and now they are considered a great eating fish.

Cheers,

Mark

[barkers creek]

slatey Bream, Blackall, mother -in-law fish (beause you give em to your mother in law) are another couple of names for it. Not the best eating, though I reckon it hints towards a flatty in flavour but nowhere near as good......They certainly do hit hard and put up a good fight though.


thats not a mother in law

[Chookman]

Speckled Hind!!!!


Cheers Chookman

[bondy99]

I've had these before, they are ok to eat. Caught the largest one in Hervey Bay 3 years back, went close to 6kg. Someone told me to take it the annual fish comp weigh in at the time, ( I was not aware it was on), they weighed it, and said it was biggest and could win the daily prize if I was a member. I said nope, I'm not a member, I was told they could sign me up on the spot for $25.00 + supply a photo ID, (like I'd carry spare photo in my wallet).

I said thanks but no thanks, took it home and cooked it up. Not the best eating fish, I had better and also worse. Peter

[rockfisho]

The bad taste is due to the environment in which they live. generally they will come off a weedy bottom or feed off weed. I caught one a while ago around noosa headland. It came of a sandy clean bottom and was very nice on the plate, very sweet flesh.

cheers

Owen

[gecho]

Whlst on the subject of dubious tasting fish-
No one here has mentioned fish curry!

Any fish that you think may not taste good on their own, put them into a nice curry base, add a bed of fresh steamed rice with a nice tomato chutney YUM!!

Curry base-

6 tablespoons of Clive of India curry (Substitute 3 for Keens Red if you can handle a bvit of spice, if you like a ringburner go 6 Keen red box)
1 tin of tomato
1 onion, garlic, ginger, salt to taste

Fry up onion, garlic and ginger till onion is translucent
throw the tin tomato in and stir for a few minutes
slam the curry powder in and stir again
throw fish in either whole or filleted (Flesh falls off easily anyway)
simmer for 20 odd minutes or until fish cooked through

boil up some rice

cut up a tomato and add some lemon juice

And the most important ingredient- ice cold beer-the best condiment of all

voila, i defy anyone who likes curry and fish to be dissapointed

greta for slateys, doggy's, or any other fish not up to the task

good eating guys


cheers

[the_president]

your mate was 100% wrong, it is not a slatey, like jeffo said it is a painted sweetlip, enjoy.

[bigroders]

Thanks for all the feed back guys, that was the last fish i've caught, haven't been able to buy a bite. going to try and turn that around on tuesday, fingers crossed.