Eating Barracuda
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Eating Barracuda
I caught a 50cm cuda yesterday arvo and was wondering if they are good eating?
Was told that they can hold parasites?
Was told that they can hold parasites?
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Re: Eating Barracuda
If you like eating them you are a better man than me! they smell like cr.p and taste even worse IMHO.
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Ditto - never eaten one, the smell put me off
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Smelly, boney, taste like a combination of mud & cr.p...Youd have to be desperate to chew one...
I tried it one night in the philippines (theyll eat anything).. It was either eat Barracuda or fruit bat...
After one bite of the cuda, i opted for the bat.... Was a no-win situation really?!!
Good crab bait maybe..???
I tried it one night in the philippines (theyll eat anything).. It was either eat Barracuda or fruit bat...
After one bite of the cuda, i opted for the bat.... Was a no-win situation really?!!
Good crab bait maybe..???
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The locals love them up in the gulf.
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If they are so smelly do they make good bait?
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Re: Eating Barracuda
I have eaten them on the GBR , smallish ones, and guess what? They were bl..dy good!
My skipper made me try it, and I resisted, being the new deckie, thought I was being given an *apprenice" type prank, but I swear it was good, skipper ate it to.
I also ate red bass, which as I suspected, were like mangrove jack, but better!
Yes I know they are considered a cigurtera risk, but how could they be more a risk than coral trout? Eat the same food that red bass eat, live in similar area, s.
Couldnt bring my self to try the chinamen fish, although I have heard they pretty good to. I have eaten cuda, red bass and spanish and cod off the reef, and never got cig poisoning, and have met people that have got cig poisoning from a single coral trout, guess its a bit of a lotto.
Small barracuda, and even the southern yellowtail pike, which smell a lot worse than cuda, are pretty good on the plate.
30 years ago, fresh tuna and squid were considered nothing but bait!
My skipper made me try it, and I resisted, being the new deckie, thought I was being given an *apprenice" type prank, but I swear it was good, skipper ate it to.
I also ate red bass, which as I suspected, were like mangrove jack, but better!
Yes I know they are considered a cigurtera risk, but how could they be more a risk than coral trout? Eat the same food that red bass eat, live in similar area, s.
Couldnt bring my self to try the chinamen fish, although I have heard they pretty good to. I have eaten cuda, red bass and spanish and cod off the reef, and never got cig poisoning, and have met people that have got cig poisoning from a single coral trout, guess its a bit of a lotto.
Small barracuda, and even the southern yellowtail pike, which smell a lot worse than cuda, are pretty good on the plate.
30 years ago, fresh tuna and squid were considered nothing but bait!
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My grandpa used to eat those pike, pretty sure they are called snook in Adelaide. He caught them on a trolled handline with barrel leads crimped along it, with a little metal lure at the end. I remember family rumblings back then about whether they were good food or not ... but grandpa liked 'em
In Taz, barracoutta (not related to barracuda, but have the same boof head and shape) are popular, sold at fish and chip shops etc. They are bony buggers. They canned coutta during the war, some old people apparently still look down at them as "wartime rations quality"
I guess at the end of the day it all depends on the sauce ...
In Taz, barracoutta (not related to barracuda, but have the same boof head and shape) are popular, sold at fish and chip shops etc. They are bony buggers. They canned coutta during the war, some old people apparently still look down at them as "wartime rations quality"
I guess at the end of the day it all depends on the sauce ...
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Re: Eating Barracuda
Smoked the fillets of a small cuda once.
Brined and covered in garlic and lemon pepper.
Tasted great
Brined and covered in garlic and lemon pepper.
Tasted great
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Snook yep dam good chewin ,use to catch em over a mtr in south oz on a plastic 100 mm lure with a treble and a yellow plastic thing that could be set at different depths called a parravane,and as for cuda they chew up OK, too what about the smell from shark,its flake down south a slightly different animal being a school shark ,but still stinks like poop,and those stinkin power tails and dam they cook up good.Especially those big pink suckers that smell like poop and a slimy ass the ones you get out at the fentons.they call em golden cobler in W.A.
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Re: Eating Barracuda
Hi there.
I have eaten some, and did find it pretty good actually.
Strong taste, but good.
I some places, maybe Hawaii no sure, it is in fact a prized fish, called the King's fish, as it was served as a special dish to the kings.
Taste varies around the world.
If I were to catch a small to medium sized one, I think that I would keep it for food.
Have a good day,
Pecheur
I have eaten some, and did find it pretty good actually.
Strong taste, but good.
I some places, maybe Hawaii no sure, it is in fact a prized fish, called the King's fish, as it was served as a special dish to the kings.
Taste varies around the world.
If I were to catch a small to medium sized one, I think that I would keep it for food.
Have a good day,
Pecheur
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Re: Eating Barracuda
Thanks for everybody's insight into this fish. Might keep the next small one I catch and have a try.
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Tried it a few times on my charters and it was ok. We regularly cooked stuff nobody else normally does and had rave reviews from my punters (fresh caught), queenies, GTs (a small GT is one of my favs) diamond scale mullet, golden trevs...all real good chewing if done right.
The cuda was edible but bland, bit like powertail.
The cuda was edible but bland, bit like powertail.
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Re: Eating Barracuda
Not too sure about this fish. Having fished Groote for a couple of years, I was told by local fishos that they were fun to catch but to throw them back due to the higher risk of ciguatera in them. I could be wrong, but I'm not eating them...
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