Moray eel
Submitted by funngames on Mon, 2012-07-30 20:22
Hey guys, was out last Thursday and we got a moray eel about a metre long! Do more people come across these and do people take them home to eat? My mates mum cooks them up but I didn't want the sly looking thing on the boat!
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Buz
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Apparently the Portuguese
Apparently the Portuguese love them??? I have eaten freshwater eel before over east, very oily but not tooooo bad, better smoked apparently.
aalfred
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smoked
The freshwater eels are awesome smoked ( but not everyones taste I must say, cuz of the oil as mentioned before). And for that reason I tried to smoke a moray eel the other day. I must say they are ok smoked but nowhere as good as freshwater eels. I still would keep a decend size one!
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I have caught a few. Usually
I have caught a few. Usually at night when bottom fishing. I know they are quite aggressive and not really a good eat. I just cut the line of as close to the hook as possible and let them free.
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funngames
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That's what I did. Horrible
That's what I did. Horrible things I reckon.
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about 3 weeks ago
I caught one a few weeks ago , apparently they have bad vision ie cant see more than about 400mm away but they sure are sus things.
Hate the way they tie themselfs up in a knot and twist till they get off the hook(the one I caught did). Like an occy , still moving with its head chopped haha.
Have heard they taste ok , old mate with me wanted it.
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the boys caught one once,
the boys caught one once, wrapped itself around the line and choked itself to death hahahahah.
Have seen Eel used as Gummy shark bait with very very good results on the east coast
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Yes
Fine to eat but great bait stays on all day just handle with rag or paper
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Old girl friend used to smoke
Old girl friend used to smoke a bit of eel
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^ .... not sure if your
^ .... not sure if your fair dinkum or not BLITZED .... but Im not touching that one !!
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Hahaha
Hahaha
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Yeah we've caught a few
Yeah we've caught a few bottom bashing at night and are a real pain to let go when they knot themselves up. They're also pretty painful when they bite too just ask my mate one bit him through the webbing between his thumb and finger the language that came out of his mouth said it all