Hi all,
I've caught one of these and this is one my partner's son caught in the Passage. I thought it was a pike, but it looks nothing like a pike picture in Google. I know there are many different types of pike, so is this one of them. It was green in colour.
Cheers,
Ross
PS He loved catching it as it jumped out of the water and was fun!
Looks like a long tom to me.
All I want is to catch MORE legal fish!
yep, common old Long Tom, pretty bad looking teeth hey!
good tucker!!
Are they edible? Ok, shouldn't have thrown it away then!
are they actually good eating or are you pulling our legs?
ive always thrown them away
According to this website http://www.sea-ex.com/fishphotos/longtom.htm they are excellent eating fish.
I had tonnes of them following my plastics yesterday, definitely a long tom. Caught a few on poppers and live herring, maybe I should give them a try on the plate.
Cheers,
Kaidon
Conservation NOT preservation!
they are pretty hard to hook, they usually just get sort of tangled, my son "invented" a rather good way to catch them, he just gets a plain old hook, and cuts up a piece of prawn scoop net net and threads it on the hook, when retreived it looks sort of like a small green baitfish, the Long Tom tries to eat it and gets tangled in the small piece on net, works a treat (that is if you want to catch them)
They are good eating - don't let the blue bones put you off. You do need a decent size one to get a reasonable feed off them. They have a very long gut cavity, so there is an enormous number of rib bones to remove and the pin bones go almost the whole length of the fillet as well. By the time you cut the ribs and the pin bones out you have two very long and very thin pieces of meat left. They do grow quite large - I've caught plenty over 5 kg, and they give a reasonable return when filleted. Another thing is that they often have worms in the flesh, similar to the worms in jew. Have a look at the number of worms in this fillet of one. By the time I cut all the worms out I had nothing left to eat!
Yeah if you eat just one you will look after the next one caught, really good to chew. Blue bones and transparent like also if i remember right, it's been a while.
yep its a long tom got one at airlie beach a couple of months ago and my father in law netted it ended up having to cut it out of the net watch them teeth while i was cutting the net it bit me and i got 6 stiches in my hand
very sharp teeth
there not bad bait on the reef either
Just don't give it the ol Rex Hunt kiss goodbye before you throw it back.They jump around the water like a marlin those long tom's hey. I'll catch up oneday with ya Ross for a fish soon. Cheers mate, Darren
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