Babies.we used to get them off the old Bunnerong Power Station in Botany Bay, in the deep water. Big ones up to 150cm. Great fighters, and good on the chew as well.
Use to scrape the skin off with the blunt side of the knife, cut them into steaks. Nothing wrong with them.
Mike
Sounds like these threads about Hairtail are sparking up some old....and cold memories of Coal and Candle, Jerusulam, and Cowan for alot of Ex-Mexicans.
Just had a go in the broadwater got 3 and lost heaps. Biggest was around 150cm. Bizzare things. Will cook some up tomorrow. Ben
You got that one spot on MT. The memories are very bitter-sweet........bitter = bludddyy cold nights and many innovative ways of trying to keep warm......sweet = those chrome bumper bars coming on at various stages of the night...plus the odd massive noah in the burley trail lit up by the phosphorescence in the water (those that share my memories will know what I am talking about). Who can ever forget the yahooing that cycled around the bay in the wee small hours as the schools of Hairtail circulated the coves. It gave you a timescale of when to expect the fish to arrive.
Greg
watch out for their tails they are like a whip in the larger ones with a brush off the silever cut into cutlets and shallow fry they eat ok
Hi Guys, they turned up in the Broadwater a couple of weeks ago, costing a fortune in lost lures but a whole lot of fun.
Damn things will eat anything thrown at them but landing them without wire is a bit more difficult, here is one of the better ones so far, cheers wayne
Originally Posted by sleepygreg
Have to agree Greg. Many Many cold nights and mornings in Botany Bay. But man can they fight.
Mike
far out that is hugeee
Re: The Hairtail Plague
i keep hearing from our southern mates that these are quite good to eat.
can anyone back up this claim?.
but keeping in mind that flake also tastes good to those of a southern heritage.
Cooked some up this arvo and stand by my earlier statement. They look like good bait! Also taste like it. Ben
I'll bet they are a lot of fun at that size thats bloody huge and the teeth sheeeees.
Cheers Axl
Hey Youngy,
where about in the broadwater did you get them. I love catching hairtail and miss it heaps, they seem to have vanished from the Coal and Candle creek in the Hawkesbury and now I am a QLD I would love to get one.
Cheers'
Rick
Hi Ric, it is my belief that fish don't disappear, they get overfished and eaten.
This is what happened last time they turned up on the Gold Coast in big numbers 17 years ago, that time they were in the deep hole behind Seaworld and got massacred.
While we have been catching our fish on lures and we release them, there was a 1.65 meter one caught on Friday night, they are almost suicidal if you anchor up and use a pilly for bait in amongst lots of burley.
Will see what happens over the next few weeks to their numbers, the way they are going they could become a nuisance and maybe i can be a bit more forethcoming with exact locations, cheers wayne
I lost alot of gear on the weekend to them. This was during the day too. I hope they disappear very soon.
now I know where all the slimies went this year, someone bloody ate them
cheers Murf
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