NFT- Another smash up fishing outing

[antonius]

Well people "Piano Fingers" reporting in. Went to a sunken wreck out in Lake Macquarie this morning, and cleaned up on Snapper, brought home 10 good Snapper, one Huge Bream, and got busted up half a dozen times. Great mornings fishing, so snapper for Dinner for me, Took the young bloke with me and for once trounced him 11 fish to 1. He wasn't happy, but "who cares" I was.

 

[Kaz]

Congrats Tony

The story sounds a bit fishy to me.

You almost had me hook, line & sinker ;-)

Catch ya later. 8)

Don't reply just to bait me. :twisted:

 

[Terminator]

Fishings great, I havent been out since New year, guess I'll just keep breaming!

 

[misty]

Mmmmmmmmmm, fis I luv fisses.......

 

[ReplicatedGod]

i havn't been fishing in so long. love going fishing. should go out one day. meh. cbf

 

[The_Ben]

We were meant to go off Swansea today, but after checking the BOM website last night to see the winds and seas forecast we decided against it.

The water only has to get a little bit warmer and the action will become red hot.

I'm heading up to the Gold Coast next week to go out on a charter for the day. Last time my brother pulled in a huge nobby head snapper. We're looking to do the same again.

 

[roopy]

I had some Lake Macquarie mullet yesterday, cooked properly by an old fisherman.
I was brought up in Bonnells Bay, which was a fishing village when I was a kid. There were about 10 professional fisherman and the whole waterfront had boat sheds that all belonged to coal miners from Cessnock who spent two weeks over Christmas living in the sheds. Most were built between the 1930s and 40s and were falling down when i was a kid in the 60s.

Anyway, mullet from Lake Macquarie tastes like mud if you just grill it and eat it. It has the flavour of the bottom of the Lake and is very oily as well. Despite that, old fisherman will eat it over any other fish, one because they could never sell it, and two, because they know how to cook it.

To cook it properly you fillet it and put it in a lunchbox or similar with a squeeze of lemon juice and a handful of brown sugar, then you shake the hell out of the box to get brown sugar to 'bind' with the lemon juice and oil in the fish.
Leave it for a while before cooking so the sugar disolves into the fish.
Cook it on a B-B-Q grill with the skin side down till it is just about cooked through, then turn it over for about 30 seconds so the sugar turns a bit crispy on the top.
You eat that between two thick slices of white bread and butter.

That is the best feed of fish i have had in my life, and i've tried everything I think. The only thing that tastes a bit similar, but not as good, is Tasmanian brown trout.

 

[The_Ben]

What about just some raw slices on japanese sushi rice with rice vinegar, soya sauce and a dash of wasabi?

Have caught bream before, straight onto the cutting board, slice a fillet off and then dip into soya sauce. Fish is still kicking about as you are eating it. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

 

[MC DUI]

*Reads Bens post*

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

*Runs away screaming!*

 

[Terminator]

The lemonjuice, brown sugar, two thick slices of bread with butter, is that to disquise the taste of the mullet Roopy? :lol: :lol:

 

[antonius]

Roopys tale reminds me when we used to put a net across Cockle Creek and net the Mullett for bait, I ate one once and spent the next week in bed sick as an off mullett. LOL.
Best tasting fish I've had is Spanish Mackerel, closely followed by Jewfish cutlets. For the general local caught fish you can't beat Bream I reckon. Preceded with a fresh Blue Swimmer Crab entre. Yummieeeeeee.

 

[Terminator]

Bream is good, leatherjackets nice.

 

[mrford61]

Next week a group of us from work are taking a 2 day blue water fishing charter out of Darwin. Mackeral, Tuna, GT and Queenies.
Also spend some time up the secluded estuaries for Barra and Mangrove Jack. I,ve been up there before near Melville Island and Coburg Peninsula and the fishing is incredible.
I,ve been dying to gloat about it and stay tuned in a fortnights time for unashamed bragging

 

[roopy]

The lemonjuice, brown sugar, two thick slices of bread with butter, is that to disquise the taste of the mullet Roopy? :lol: :lol:

You have to try it to know what i mean, but the sugar and lemon juice completely counteract the muddy and oily flavour and make mullet taste sweet but complex all at the same time. The old fishing families around the lake (Parkers, Wynnes, Dixons etc all desended from local aboriginals) tell me that the recipe for mullet goes back to around the 1850s when there was a sugar mill at Sugar Bay at the south end of the lake.

 

[*melliez*]

I went fishing on Fathers Day and I swear I am never going again.

I hate waking up at 3am. I hate waiting around for nothing to happen. I think I would rather watch paint dry than go fishing. I hate nothing more than touching raw fish or any kind of raw meat! No wonder I hate bloody fishing!

My boyfriend his brothers and Dad were really into it, me I was saying "Can we go home now?" I was just lucky that the fish werent biting otherwise I would have been there all day... I got home at 10:30 which was good

 

[Terminator]

I went fishing on Fathers Day and I swear I am never going again.

I hate waking up at 3am. I hate waiting around for nothing to happen. I think I would rather watch paint dry than go fishing. I hate nothing more than touching raw fish or any kind of raw meat! No wonder I hate bloody fishing!

My boyfriend his brothers and Dad were really into it, me I was saying "Can we go home now?" I was just lucky that the fish werent biting otherwise I would have been there all day... I got home at 10:30 which was good

Fishing is a guy thing Melliez, I know some chics love it, but most would rather shave their heads than go fishing every week.

 

[astrogirl]

Fishing is a guy thing Melliez, I know some chics love it, but most would rather shave their heads than go fishing every week.

I went fishing once when I was a kid. Never again! I prefer something a bit more action oriented!

 

[Terminator]

Fishing is a guy thing Melliez, I know some chics love it, but most would rather shave their heads than go fishing every week.

I went fishing once when I was a kid. Never again! I prefer something a bit more action oriented!

You can go extreme fishing you know, catching marlins and huge tuna.
I want to do it as soon as possible.

 

[astrogirl]

Fishing is a guy thing Melliez, I know some chics love it, but most would rather shave their heads than go fishing every week.

I went fishing once when I was a kid. Never again! I prefer something a bit more action oriented!

You can go extreme fishing you know, catching marlins and huge tuna.
I want to do it as soon as possible.

Really?!! What does that mean exactly terminator007? By action oriented, I was thinking more along the lines of skiing (I'm obsessed), snowboarding, giving scuba diving a go, trying go kart racing, that kind of thing!

 

[*melliez*]

I went fishing on Fathers Day and I swear I am never going again.

I hate waking up at 3am. I hate waiting around for nothing to happen. I think I would rather watch paint dry than go fishing. I hate nothing more than touching raw fish or any kind of raw meat! No wonder I hate bloody fishing!

My boyfriend his brothers and Dad were really into it, me I was saying "Can we go home now?" I was just lucky that the fish werent biting otherwise I would have been there all day... I got home at 10:30 which was good

Fishing is a guy thing Melliez, I know some chics love it, but most would rather shave their heads than go fishing every week.

I will remember that... Next time that my boyfriend asks me to go fishing I will say "I would rather shave my head!"

Mind you I think shaving my head would be fun

I have wanted to do that before today.

I am glad that my favourite band is coming out weekend after next. My boyfriend is going away on a fishing trip that weekend and he wanted me to come, but when I told him that they were here, he decided not to even bother trying to change my mind