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Ruby Red Lip
 
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White Marlin
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| "you can live off it, but it tastes like shit!" -Crocodile Dundee
 
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White Marlin
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Actually I have eaten them twice before and if bled and soaked in ice cold saltwater for a couple hours they taste pretty similar to blackfin. Some don't like blackfin but they aren't much different than a yellowfin IMHO as long as you bleed them just like you would a yellowfin.
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Ruby Red Lip
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| I've also tried it and if you prepare it correctly (I didn't do it so I'm not sure what exactly to do) then it tastes like tuna
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There's too many other Great Fish to eat....
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i like em' just fine but it's more of a joke as to why i eat them
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I believe you'll have to explain yourself a little bit Woods
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The Blue Hoo (12/9/2008)
i like em' just fine but it's more of a joke as to why i eat themEverything you do is a joke
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tunapopper (12/9/2008)
I believe you'll have to explain yourself a little bit Woods
i have a blood fetish
Chris Hood (12/9/2008)
The Blue Hoo (12/9/2008)
i like em' just fine but it's more of a joke as to why i eat themEverything you do is a joke
your mom is no joke; just ask vecsey
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| I guess they would be pretty good if you didnt have anything else to eat.
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step #1, fillet fish, skin, cut out blood line step #2, get a cast-iron skillet with some vegetable oil real hot, step #3, bread the fillets in whatever breading you choose, step #4, fry fish until golden brown, step #5, throw that shit out and eat the skillet. truer words were never spoken, from a post a couple of months ago
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Ruby Red Lip
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i've never eaten a bonita but a guy went fishing with me a couple of years ago and he loved em.(his wife wife korean maybe she knew something i don"t) on a side note i live in south carolina and you couldn't give a amberjack away here.
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[b]i live in south carolina and you couldn't give a amberjack away here. Wow, AJ is one of my favorites.
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I've been meaning to try some bonita salad .
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| I've never tried it, but I bet I could make sashimi out of it and no one would know the difference. Just use a lot of wasabi.
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NO! and why ask, can't you catch something else? I tried out of curiousity many years back to find a suitable way to prepare bonita and found it is terrible, no mater what you do. I don't even think the Vietnamese like to eat them. Try Remora and let me know, I bet they are pretty good!
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njmad (12/9/2008)
Are bonita a good eating fish ????
You have to try it and decide for yourself. I am pretty sure eating habits have changed during the years , even around here. People would tell you "they taste terrible" without even trying some....just beacuse others says so... most locals will not eat them, but some do and won't admit it..why? I'm not sure. Give it a try...its red meat, strong flavor. I have oriental friends and they cook it differet ways (fresh). some of them better than others...its food, it won't kill ya. give it a try en let us know.....now I don't know anything about eating remoras....that thing looks freaky anyways...but a bonita...come on!!!!
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| I tried it as sashimi and it tasted like eating something very metallic...say a penny in your mouth...In the end I thought it was terrible...now Get some highly seasoned water and boil it...flake it and make a tuna salad and I bet it is good. The Japanese dry it and flake it and use it like the Asians that use fish sauce...I believe Kahala eats them and likes them...anyway part of our trashcan buffet we did once and the end result was awful!
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Yes I do Chris..... I make jerky out it also. I only use the Lighter meat. What I do is get my favorite seasonings and mix with olive oil and coat the meat then fry/grill all sides till medium and cut in slices... Like people have said..."it won't kill you" People eat liver don't they?
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| I eat it and i eat Aj's too. I would make this prediction: if you think catfish or crappie is good eating you most likely will not like Bonita or even an AJ. It has a lot of blood rich in iron and copper, bleed it or that taste will come through.I LIKE that taste, but that is me. I eat bonia as sushi, cerviche or oak smoked and a lot of other ways. My family called them bombs as that is what they looked like, we would smoke them and make a caserole with them. Like a canned tuna caserole. Most of what folks eat is 'in the head'. I have served deboned filleted carp without telling folks what they are as freshwater fish and chips and most folks have loved it. Treat that bonita like a blackfin and give it a try.
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ElJay (12/10/2008)
I have served deboned filleted carp without telling folks what they are as freshwater fish and chips and most folks have loved it. Treat that bonita like a blackfin and give it a try.
carp and eel is really high priced here in europe. carp is even a popular christmas dinner...So lets call remoras "lesser cobias" and maybe people will start eating them 
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carp and eel is really high priced here in europe. carp is even a popular christmas dinner... That is my point, we eat what others tell us is good. Seldom make up our own mind about it. If you grew up being told carp or Bonita is not good, it wont be. At one time lobster was trash fed to prisoners as nobody else thought it was fit to eat: I still think of it as good bait, or bad rubbery big shrimp. Others like to eat it.
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i dont even know how AJs got pulled into this one. 2 completely different types of fish. different color meats, complete polar opposites when it comes to taste as well.
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| Camping/fishing on the Kings River outside of Fresno, CA. A buddy caught a nice sized carp and was trying to get it off of his hook to throw back. A little old Vietnamese lady ran up to him just about begging him for the fish. He gladly gave it to her. About an hour - two hours later, she brought us a large platter of fried rice, with the carp in it. It was absolutely delicious, I was very suprised.
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Not me.
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The Blue Hoo (12/10/2008)
i dont even know how AJs got pulled into this one. 2 completely different types of fish. different color meats, complete polar opposites when it comes to taste as well.I understand that in the Atlantic they (Amberjack) have some type of parasitic worm that makes them very unappetizing and are therfore considered trash fish. Kind of like spaghetti worms in speckled trout except much worse. But thats just what I've heard.
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i dont even know how AJs got pulled into this one. 2 completely different types of fish. different color meats, complete polar opposites when it comes to taste as well.I understand that in the Atlantic they (Amberjack) have some type of parasitic worm that makes them very unappetizing and are therfore considered trash fish. Kind of like spaghetti worms in speckled trout except much worse. But thats just what I've heard.
it's not just the atlantic-plenty of AJs here in the gulf have em' as well. it may as well be superficial though...you just cut em out. no affect on taste whatsoever. i'd say one in every fifty i've seen has em.
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yea we caught one a weekend or two ago that had a big one in it like 2 or 3inches long but we just pulled it out....looked like a big one you find in trout. ive heard ones in the atlantic are full of them
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