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Red grouper get em bad too
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I support commercial snapper fishing.
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Snapper
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| I was stationed in the PI about 30 years ago and had a neighbor that grilled Bonita all the time. It was good but I haven't eaten any since. As far as different people eating (or not eating) the same things as the others in their area...I think that's pretty standard. One area's bait/trash fish is anothers favorite fish fry. AJ's and mullet are two good examples of that, they are both considered trash fish in many areas (possibly more than not) but I like them both if handled/cooked right. I've cut many a worm (wads of them) out of AJ's as well as a few grouper and eaten the fish unless they are really ate up with them.
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Worked on a boat with a few Hondurans years ago, they would occasionally make fish head soup, most of the time it smelled good, but I never tried it. They caught a bonita once, & made fish head soup with it, nastiest crap I've ever smelled in a galley, it smelled worse than boiling boat shoes. I don't think the Hondo's ever tried bonita again.
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Snapper
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| If you bleed the meat and cut the dark strip out, you can boil the meat and make tuna fish salad out of it. It is not bad. The meat will actually turn from red to a pale white color. In the 70's we ate bonita burgers at Navarre pier every day. They actually sold them in the restaurant for 75 cents.
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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 was born in South Carolina and over there the AJs are LOADED with worms...I also agree one the tasting like penny comment refering to bonita sashimi..
Dylan
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Snapper
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Bonita in the Gulf of Mexico are truly "Tinny Tuna" by name.
BLEED THEM!!!!!
CUT OUT BLOOD MEAT! like all tuna it is more near backbone on the centerline.
DON'T OVERCOOK THEM!!!!!!
use garlic powder directly on meat salt & pepper too
cook 1 inch thick steak fast on hot smokey grill not bad!
same steak blackened with some "Tony's" and butter!
IF YOU MESS IT UP ITS REAL BAD as in FISHY BLAH!!
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| As with anything, regarding taste there is no argument. I have eaten bonita prepared as sashimi and it was very good. It had been bled and brine-soaked and kept chilled, all of which, I am sure, helped. I have never had it prepared in more "traditional" ways. I find that many people favor fish that are "harder to mess up" than others. Grouper, trigger, wahoo, etc. are all fish that, even if mishandled and not cooked well, still taste pretty good. Some people despise king mackerel, and, when I deck-handed a lot, many folks who had been on charters before wanted me to throw back amberjacks. I think that this kind of thing is a result of improper handling. Kings are oily and have to be well-iced immediately upon capture, and pains must be taken to cut the red out of their meat. Pretty much the same can be said of amberjack. I tried to prepare some skipjack tuna once in the same manner I do yellowfin. I found the steaks to be "fishy" and had a rather mealy texture. Not real appetizing. But I have some Hawaiian friends who prize skipjacks for food. They cut the head and tail off, gut it, then score the skin with a knife and dust the "plug" with rock salt. Then they grill it whole and swear it is very good. I guess my point is that any of the "lesser" fish can be eaten and enjoyed as long as they are iced properly, dressed properly, and prepared in a specific way. But if you don't care to deviate from the egg-wash, cornmeal, and peanut oil method, you probably won't like bonita.
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Snapper
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Well wrote Well said! '
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| WOW!!!! I just realized I'm not a Pinhead anymore!!!!!! or is it pinfish? 
V/R
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Trigger
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i have never really thought about trying it before because everyone says they are not good the next one i try though is gunna be dinner!
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Grouper
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In the 70's we ate bonita burgers at Navarre pier every day. They actually sold them in the restaurant for 75 cents. Now that's interesting!
"I aint as good as I once was...but I was good once...as I ever was".... Toby Keith
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 No way am I eating Bonitadan!
 Nothing beats a try, like a failure
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I had a charter this fall with some guys who worked at a seafood restaurant on the beach. They had a really good sushi chef and we called the restaurants when we got back to the dock and told the sushi chef we had a limit of kings and a bunch of bonita. He was more excited about getting his hands on the bonita! He did his thing pan seared it with salt and pepper so it was still raw on the inside and that was really good eats. I thought he was crazy but I had to try it and I am glad I did. Hell it is in the tuna family!
What he did with the kings was amazing too! Grilled with a mustard sauce and capers...damn!
Tight lines,
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Grouper
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...So lets call remoras "lesser cobias" and maybe people will start eating them  Then the NMFS can make a size limit and season for them and then close it to save the species.
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Netboy
Just go's to show that popular belief is not always correct about fish/fishing!!!
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hey evensplit,
LOL! Remoras creep me out. Not eating one, don't care if it tastes like pecan pie.
Capt. Eugene:
Yeah, this sushi chef is the real deal. Made a believer outta me.
tight lines,
netboy
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