Amber Jack was pretty damn good, i gotta go with that damn good ol rare tuna though

4/15/2010 2:23:22 PM

I've been a fan of Mahi-mahi personally

4/15/2010 2:24:49 PM

Very few fish don't work on a grill.

4/15/2010 2:25:34 PM

swordfish

4/15/2010 2:25:48 PM

grilled salmon is good but i've had some much salmon lately that i avoid it now.

4/15/2010 2:25:48 PM

i've never eaten amberjack. gave one to some folks on the pier once who claimed they would eat it and it was full of worms.

4/15/2010 2:26:33 PM

i was recommended the amber jack because wholefood was out of mahi mahi (which i have never had)

would you agree that the tastes are at the very least comparable?

4/15/2010 2:26:39 PM

canned tuna

4/15/2010 2:28:55 PM

grouper cheeks

4/15/2010 2:30:21 PM

wahoo steaks on the grill are good. i've grilled king mackerel before and that wasn't bad. cobia is probably my favorite fish for the grill. they don't call it lemonfish for nothing.

pretty much grill any fish that's firm enough. trout, flounder, etc are ok if you put them in foil with herbs and lemon on the grill. bigger stuff like reds, black drum, rockfish, sheepshead gets baked in a sort of pseudo fish stew.

4/15/2010 2:31:51 PM

minnows






ok ya im not helping...

4/15/2010 2:36:18 PM

Ok seriously amberjack?

In some places you'd be laughed out of this thread for that comment. Some places actually think it is a decent fish, but hardly anyone would call it the best fish on the grill. It is edible, IMO, once you cut around the worms.

Yes, they are full of white, stringy worms.

Wahoo, cobia, tuna, and mahi are favorites of mine.

Mahi is my top choice mostly because that's the best combination of good and what I catch.

4/15/2010 3:57:18 PM

are they all full of worms? why?

and wouldn't the worms just get cooked as well?

4/15/2010 3:59:23 PM

Mahi for ^^ his reasons

4/15/2010 4:02:24 PM

so youre freaked out by a few worms

4/15/2010 4:06:37 PM

,All amberjacks do not have worms. The larger the fish, the more likely it is to have them, and it also depends on location.

Amberjack caught in the gulf rarely have worms...but those caught on the east coast almost always do.

The worms are usually in the tail section, so if you cut that off, you're usually ok. Then you have to cut out or around the bloodlines....possibly bleed the fish....and then you are ok.

Some people ignore the worms and cook them out.....I personally chose not to cook and eat visible worms.

EDIT: ^unless you have cleaned an AJ and seen the large, white worms that fill the lower section, then you can't really talk.

And yes, I don't like eating worms.



[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 4:09 PM. Reason : ]

4/15/2010 4:06:42 PM

so youre freaked out by a few worms

4/15/2010 4:06:48 PM

Quote :

"are they all full of worms? why? and wouldn't the worms just get cooked as well?"

not all of them. it really depends on the location, i think. AJs from the coast of NC tend to have worms more often than not. iirc, it isn't too bad further south like florida and the gulf and they eat them more down there.

yeah, i guess you could cook the worms. personally, i don't care to eat parasitic worms, though.

[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 4:09 PM. Reason : haha jinx]

4/15/2010 4:06:53 PM

Love swordfish.

4/15/2010 4:07:32 PM

So youre freaked out by a few worms? i didnt notice any but I do recognize the concept of symbiotic relationships and if if the worms are as consistent in amberjack as you say they are than I would imagine its not a symptom of any sort of problem

but thanks for omparing it to mahi mahi, i liked the amber jack because it was a little flaky and it soaked up the marinade i put on it while not tasting bland


sory for the double post, somethin wierd happened.

i looked it up and it says worms occur in the tail section, I had fillets not a whole fish

[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 4:09 PM. Reason : h]

4/15/2010 4:08:10 PM

Swordfish. Had the BEST grilled swordfish with lemon today. Amazing.

4/15/2010 4:09:04 PM

king mackerel tis my fave on the grill

4/15/2010 4:09:20 PM

im gettin all hungry now

I had swordfish, it was pretty good i didnt do it justice though because I baked it in the oven instead of grilling that sucker

[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 4:11 PM. Reason : h]

4/15/2010 4:10:40 PM

Mahi-Mahi

yummmmmmmmy...I was just talking to someone about this today. Then add pineapple on top of it!

Also grilled tuna is pretty great

but tuna is great raw too

4/15/2010 4:11:23 PM

it's dolphin, y'all

4/15/2010 4:11:45 PM

Quote :

"If you can't catch any sand fleas, don't despair. "

hah just had to point this out from some website...if you cant catch mole crabs youre a retard

4/15/2010 4:12:51 PM

Quote :

"it's dolphin, y'all"

Yeah but people freak out when you say you're eating a dolphin!

4/15/2010 4:13:57 PM

^^it's all out of context, but i'd guess that they mean if you can't locate any. they can be hard to find during some times of the year.

[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 4:16 PM. Reason : i don't care. i ain't no hawaiian.]

4/15/2010 4:15:39 PM

Exactly....when I am fishing it and with people that know what I'm talking about, it's dolphin.

When I'm cooking it for non-fishers, it's mahi.

4/15/2010 4:15:39 PM

mahi is the trade name so thats what I use

nothin wrong or amateur about using the trade name

When I am cooking it for taxonomists, its Coryphaena hippurus

[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM. Reason : h]

4/15/2010 4:16:51 PM

^^That's actually what my conversation was about.

We were out to eat and I had sushi, and she was like "I can't eat seafood at all"

And so I was talking about how when it's fresh seafood, it's not really that fishy tasting.

Then I was saying how I loved grilled tuna and dolphin and she was like ZOMGAH! DOLPHIN?!?!!

[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 4:18 PM. Reason : ]

4/15/2010 4:17:42 PM

i was just fucking around y'all call it whatever

it's just funny to me how salesmen will give something a better sounding name. kinda like rapeseed oil canadian oilseed low acid

[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 4:26 PM. Reason : just fry me a sea mullet and i'm happy anyway]

4/15/2010 4:18:26 PM

Womens shouldnt have the right to abort rapeseed

my favorite fish fried is the butterfish by far, grouper second


[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 4:27 PM. Reason : d]

4/15/2010 4:26:00 PM

butterfish = pompano

black folks always call them butterfish. i watched some folks fill up a cooler with little jacks that they thought were pompano/butterfish one day.

4/15/2010 4:29:22 PM

i thought pompano were much larger and butterfish are just in the same family


do you agree that they are tasty?

[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 4:30 PM. Reason : f]

4/15/2010 4:30:12 PM

so youre freaked out by a few worms

4/15/2010 4:30:17 PM

Well if anyone wants some pinfish I'll go catch some for you!

4/15/2010 4:30:23 PM

^^^no, they're the same thing from what i've seen. it's hard to tell a lot of times on the pier b/c a lot of folks don't know what they're talking about. i watched a guy keep a bunch of little puppy drum one time b/c he thought they were croakers. wouldn't listen to me when i politely tried to tell him different. he got a ticket for every puppy drum in the cooler later that day.

but yeah, pompano/butterfish are good eats.

[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 4:34 PM. Reason : ^haha had some guys try to tell me their cooler of pinfish was a nice mess of spots]

4/15/2010 4:34:05 PM

haha, if the fish has fins that look and feel like pins, they are pinfish...

also, if you are catching then right and left while surf fishing, chances are they are pinfish...

4/15/2010 4:37:23 PM

fwiw lots of fish have fins like that. sheepshead comes to mind.

and google shows that the term "butterfish" can refer to different fish depending on location. all i can tell you is most of the time when i heard someone call a fish a "butterfish" on the pier, they were referring to what a lot of NC anglers would call a pompano.

local fish names are tough to figure out.

[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 4:42 PM. Reason : d]

4/15/2010 4:39:31 PM

Well true, but not that many that you will catch standing on the beach that frequently...

Speaking of, I might go fishing Saturday...probably not gonna be any good, but it'll be nice to be out there.

4/15/2010 4:41:23 PM

swordfish

4/15/2010 4:43:02 PM

we were in the fish really thick surf fishing somewhere between cape lookout and drum inlet and a guy with us fucked around and caught two pompano on little pieces of red delicious apple.

4/15/2010 4:44:23 PM

Quote :

"no, they're the same thing from what i've seen. it's hard to tell a lot of times on the pier b/c a lot of folks don't know what they're talking about. i watched a guy keep a bunch of little puppy drum one time b/c he thought they were croakers."

lmao, but then again i wouldnt imagine these guys would know that they couldnt harvest those fish anyway, not do i imagine they would care anyway

i think butterfish are actually colder water species, which is why they are so oily and flavorful

[Edited on April 15, 2010 at 4:47 PM. Reason : f]

4/15/2010 4:44:50 PM

While I really enjoy catching fish that I can eat...I really think it's fun to see all the random things you catch too. I always have my camera with me because you never know what is gonna be on the hook.

4/15/2010 4:45:55 PM

pompano are stupid, honey crisp is the best apple

4/15/2010 4:48:22 PM

^lawl

4/15/2010 4:49:56 PM