Pickles!!
Submitted by southcity104 on Mon, 2013-04-01 10:11
After some good fishing on friday a quiet one at home pickling some occos sounded good. Headed down to mangles for a shore based occy hunt and bagged twelve between two of us. Time to fire up the pressure cooker. Kids go crazy now about what comes home in the eski!
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till
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No wonder if its going to
No wonder if its going to crawl out!
Habanero
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Freeze first
Hey South , have you tried freezing them first prior to cooking ? the Ice crystals break the cells and they come out tender as...
southcity104
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yep cheers Damo
spot on! have some out from a previous trip. The ones with be frozen.
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schmik
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hey south good catch what
hey south good catch what method you use to catch them.diving?
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Have not had any pickled occy for too long, damn good catch that.
southcity104
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schmick
hand spear works well
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Luked
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Ditto
Also like to know the catch method, including type of ground to look for. i understand these guys hunt similar ground to crayfish?
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Southcity
How do you entice them? I have used a rod with a squid jig and jig this in any likely looking hole, then move it out and wham with the gidgy. The other way I do it is to catch a hezza and spear that onto a second gidgy, and use this to entice them out and then wham.
Not many post on how to catch occies so just interested in other's methods to get them out off their holes. The wham bit is relatively simple IMO.
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nice catch. i can see a few
nice catch. i can see a few good feeds there. i do like pickled occy but it is pricey to buy. well done
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