Gold Spot Sweetlip
I caught a 49cm Gold Spot Sweetlip yesterday out past FFB. Never seen one before so brought it home and looked it up to see if it was worth eating. In the guide on this forum it says "Considered poor eating and needs to be bled, cleaned, gutted, filleted and skinned etc on capture".
I killed it using the iki jimi method and threw it in the ice slurry. It wasn't till I got home that I gutted it and thought I would give it a try smoking it in my Bradley Smoker and see how it goes. If no good it could be fed to the dog or cat next door. I used a brown sugar and salt mix and left it soaking for 18 hours in the fridge. Pulled it out and hung it to dry out a little then into the smoker it went with a little maple syrup at 80degC. After 2 hours checked it out and its very nice, moist and tasty. Certainly not as bad as I thought it would be. So don't believe all that you read in the guide.
scotto
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yeah buuuuuut,
A smoker can make a turd taste good!
Terry
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hope your not speaking from
hope your not speaking from experience scotto.....hahaha
MattMiller
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Of course
after all that effort anything would taste good.
carnarvonite
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Turd
Doesn't matter how you prepare and cook it, a turd will still be a turd when you finish
Supafishall
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Gold spots are all good if u
Gold spots are all good if u bleed it straight away I just Pablo crumb an it still better than the fish n chip shop
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sea-kem
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Fish that has flesh like a
Fish that has flesh like a lamb chop............hmmm
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