>90 cm Coral Trout. Would you eat it?

[madman1]

Hi All,

I went out to the reef yesterday and landed an absolute horse of a trout. Unfortunately it was sharked on the way up with no chance of survival.

It would have certainly died if released.

The question is, would you eat it. It was caught 120km offshore.

All thoughts greatly accepted.

Cheers


Mark

[jtpython]

Wouldn't think twice.
Seems a lot of worries lately of people with cigutura .......... Been around for years
If your stuck worrying about them specially trout send down my way
JT

[Angla]

Wouldn't think twice.
Seems a lot of worries lately of people with cigutura .......... Been around for years
If your stuck worrying about them specially trout send down my way
JT

Jt could be a little tight with the postage but I will certainly pay the freight to Brisbane so as I could test any fish for you.

Honestly though, I would be a little enticed to return it in good health as a breeder or take it if it was poorly from the fight.

Cheers
Chris

[Teabag73]

Personally no but don't begrudge anyone doing so.......Me personally, I prefer the 40cm to 60cm Trout for taste etc. Plus cigutara (sp) is always an issue with large reef/predatory fish such as Trout.......

[marty+jojo]

I'd give it a go but i don't reckon i could eat the whole thing at once .
Just kidding, i would do the taste test thing, where you just eat a little bit on the first night, then get into it the next night.
Marty.

[hooknose]

I,m with JT !!!

[thephotoguru]

Once bitten.....

I have been privelidged to be inflicted with a dose of ciguatera and I never want to go back there.

While I only had a small dose it is not really something I wish to repeat.

Don't temp fate I have seen a couple of young kids in a really bad way.

My best advice is you have to ask don't eat it.

Cheers Eamon

[geeb]

I was always a bit suspicious of them so used to fillet and skin then freeze in small bags for my mother in law. She loved it - now that she is no longer with us we release the bigger ones.........Geeb

[yellowbeard]

Interesting reading on the ol' Wikipedia, which tells us, "The first method is that if a piece of fish is contaminated with the toxin, flies will not land on it. The second is that the toxin can be detected by feeding a piece of fish to a cat, as cats are allegedly highly sensitive to ciguatoxin and will display symptoms," and also, "...ciguatera symptoms have developed in otherwise-healthy males and females following sexual intercourse with partners suffering ciguatera poisoning, signifying that the toxin that produces ciguatera poisoning may be sexually transmitted."
So the message I'm getting is to leave the fish lying around for a while to see if the flies gather, and to double up, feed a piece to that neighbour's cat that's been keeping you awake at nights and crapping on your lawn -- and if you end up eating it and ultimately develop symptoms, stay off the 'nest'.

[Scott nthQld]

I probably wouldn't have eaten it, but since it would've died anyway, it would've made some great slab baits for more trout.

As for breeders, I read on the AIMS website that trout are basically the opposite to barramundi, ie a barra starts its life a male and turns female when it gets big, trout in this case starts is life a female and turns into a male.

Large trout are a lot more fond of trout than us, so more than likely for that area, you have taken out one of the top trout predators, which in theory will temporarily help the immediate population of trout

[Nic]

My uncle got ciguatera poisoning from a big trout so I'd be loath to eat it. Still, if it was going to die anyway perhaps it would be OK to divide it up into small portions and everybody can just have a little bit each?

Wouldn't mind trying that flies method. Would be interesting to put a piece from a small trout next to a piece from a huge one and see how they compare.

[Scott nthQld]

just as a reference the the barra opposite sexchange thing i mentioned, it wasn't on AIMS I read it, it was here:

http://www.reef.crc.org.au/research/...CoralTrout.htm

[madman1]

Thanks for the feedback.

Looks like we are free to pig out on the big fella. There were heaps of flies landing on it yesterday. Or were they hanging around my stinking body


I'll let you all know how the wife pulls up tomorrow!

[madman1]

Here's the pic of the beast

[bondy99]

I've eaten these in a worse state after coming out of the gob of a tiger shark, not the first one and won't be the last one.

After paying $200.00 on a charter be damned if a shark will have it.

Peter