Remoras

[thelump]

My mate hooked a remora that was hanging around the boat on Sunday and it was a fair size (maybe 5-7kg) are they any good to eat. Has anyone tried them?

[Noelm]

they are OK to eat, not fantastic, but not horrible either, unless you have got nothing else to take home, then why not?, they tend to be a tad strong in flavour for some People.

[Greg P]

Maybe you should do a search on Remoras here before eating one.

There was a funny story about that a while ago - they like to eat blind mullets

[netmaker]

gidday lump,

if you have a good look at a remora (picture them without the suction pad on top) don't ya reckon they look almost exactly the same as a cobia? big brown eyes and the same markings as a cobia. first cobe i ever caught was 45 pounds. i was working up north on prawn trawlers and wasn't game to spend the time to clean it until i knew what it was. thought i had the worlds biggest remora that was missing it's suction pad! as far as eating it goes: (from other web sites) research has shown that a lot of remoras feed on fish crap (from big fish and sharks) which may be why they may have a strong flavour. pacific islanders use them to catch turtles and large fish simply by tying a line to them and throwing them out in the general area of a turtle or fish and using the remora's suction to bring in dinner. apparently they never ate them as they were tools for catching supper.

regards

dave

[Jeremy]

cracker of a thread on eating remoras a couple of years back. Guarantee you will never eat on if you read it!
Jeremy

[thelump]

Yeah read the thread of 04/06 and found it very amusing. I will make it my mission to catch one the next time I see one and tell the deckie(non ausfisher) that they eat well and see what he reckons. Just as long as it hasn't recently eaten!!!!!!!

[finding_time]

I'll save everyone the effort of searching and post a link! Gees there are alot of banned members and members that dont post anymore when you read the old threads. Threads like this one should be given a run every year or so for old times sake.

Ian

Ps. now lets see if we can find "the boat of the year/ 2 foot chop thread"




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