bbq tailor or herring??
Submitted by grayzeee on Mon, 2011-02-21 21:20
crap thread alert!! which do you prefer ??
went up to sandy cape the weekend just gone for a camp and beach fish.
wasn't expecting much fish wise bar a ray or two off the beach next to camp.
managed to get some bull herring on the bite later in the eve tho , and took one for breakky.
got to say , i prefer herring over tailor any day. it was fantastic , scaled and pan fried in salt and pepper and oil.
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Ewan
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man I rate herring how you
man I rate herring how you did it amongst the best! Including your primo white flesh bottom-dwellers!
Hard to beat fresh caught BBQd herring. At some spots down south I get everything all ready to go - all the ingredients, stove, pan, etc ready to rock. Catch a bull hezza, iki jime, scale, gut and on the BBQ less than 5 minutes later! Friggen awesome!
Big Col
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Yeah mate couldnt agee more
Yeah mate couldnt agee more very underrated by alot off people i was raised on them and
still love em on the bbq or even better on the open fire
till
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Hezzas for sure, tailor =
Hezzas for sure, tailor = ewww!
piston broke
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LOVE
fresh Herring on the BBQ, they have enough oil in them to whack on as is, yum. (dont over cook)
chrisp
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Hezza's
I was saying to a few mates the other day,even though ive got dhu,blue groper,pinky ect in the freezer i enjoyed some fresh crispy skinned herring recently and i rate it highly!
As for tailor i remember liking them as a kid but my most recent experience with them was rather average.
fisho-ron
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herring for sure as well
herring for sure as well mate, i just skin mine as well.
cant stand skin on any fish.
they say tailor is good fresh, my dogs dont even like it, love herring raw,cooked or two days later.
sea-kem
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Filleted in the pan with
Filleted in the pan with butter skin side down until crisp mmm mmm. My missuss rates em over dhuie fresh.
Love the West!
carnarvonite
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Whole
Straight out of the water and on to the plate, no bleeding, gutting or scaling. The guts shrivel up in to a ball and the scales start to lift off when its cooked. Its one of the few ways I'll eat them.
Tailor are meant for others to enjoy catching so I leave them to swim away after de hooking. Missus doesn't like me letting all of them go but what she doesn't know won't hurt her.
Markie
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carnarvonite thats one very
carnarvonite thats one very different way to eat a herring but now i must try that :) interesting. Once the scales lift off do they all fall off easy? Oil/butter... any additions?
carnarvonite
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Nope
Just a smear of oil on the plate and nothing else.
The scales peel off once its cooked, only turn once.
Busted Arse
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When i lived in hopey
When i lived in hopey it was my sunday morning ritual to catch a feed, go home and put them on the smoker(much to the missus displeasure)
Miss the humble hezza.
roberta
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Yuck hate herring or tailor
I'm afraid you can all enjoy them. But do love roll mops, smoked mackerel, smoked salmon. Old fart reckons I'm weird, you don't like fresh herring or tailor yet you'll eat rollmops, yummo I say, must remember to buy a jar of rollmops, lips licking hahahah Have never tried smoked herring or tailor, but I think I'd like them smoked, as most smoked fish is delicious.
Ginger Tablets Rock
TonyT
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whats a rollmop please?
whats a rollmop please?
bod
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rollmops
a rollmop is a raw herring fillet, rolled up and pickled in vinegar and spices. The vinegar cooks the flesh. They originate from Norway and other Scandanavian countries.
TonyT
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ok cheers, sounds different,
ok cheers, sounds different, maybe 1 day i'll try it.
fisher dude
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SMOKED
Both tailor & herring are awesome smoked..., straight in the pan.... not a big fan (you gotta clean 'em dude!)
beau
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herring any day! Tailor is so
herring any day! Tailor is so overrated, i dont see what the big fuss is about
Nelly
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Love fresh tailor,would
Love fresh tailor,would probably eat it over dhuie...serious.Fresh herring are not bad but would rather eat tailor.
SamC
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Yep Tailor & Herring are
Yep Tailor & Herring are both delish, would prefer them over most other species.
Cheers,
Sam
Heinz
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Herring all the way! used to
Herring all the way! used to crumb them and shallow fry, but now scale them, fillet them down and whack on the barbie.
JohnF
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From my limited experience (
From my limited experience ( well with tailor, have caught a fair few hezzas over the years) you can cook herring just about any old way and they taste pretty good. Crispy skin on bb best, but you can really overtook them and they are still OK.
Tailor on the other hand require heaps more care. I caught and cooked 3 over the past two weeks, the first was just ok and the second was terrible and dry. Just about gave up but the third fish was cooked about an hour after capture and I was really careful to JUST cook it. In fact, I tool it off the BBQ a bit rare and let the final bit of cooking happen as I served it.
WOW is all I can say. Moist, delicate and delicious. Honestly, you would not think it was the same fish.
Tailor is a bit fishy, which some people don't like, but I rate it up there with dolphin fish if cooked properly.
Contender 25T - good hezza boat