Red Bass
Submitted by blitzed on Wed, 2012-05-09 11:52
Caught a few of these one night and they go pretty hard. Wicked teeth on them.
Image Upload:
BigV
Posts: 98
Date Joined: 22/06/11
Well done
Nice looking fish there, they good chewin?
Always keen to fish
scottland
Posts: 3037
Date Joined: 10/05/10
depends
im lead to believe then can get ciguatera.... nice fish anyway
i support two teams eagles and whoever is playing the dockers
carnarvonite
Posts: 8658
Date Joined: 24/07/07
Ciguatera
Chinamen and red bass aren't affected by ciguatera in WA only over east, something to do with the weed and corals that the smaller fish eat.
soupster51
Posts: 2723
Date Joined: 29/11/06
Red Bass
Nice sized Bass. You wouldn't eat them unless you had to, but they are a sports fish for sure. They go hard!!!!!!!!
The best reason for doing what's right today is tomorrow.
dkonig82
Posts: 2091
Date Joined: 06/07/10
Agree - they fight hard, and
Agree - they fight hard, and dirty! Been reefed by plenty of these pricks.
I personally reckon they are pretty good on the chew too (though as has been said, you wouldnt eat one from Qld).
When asked by a non-fisherman 'how many fishing rods do you really need?' the correct answer is either:
n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.
Uluabuster
Posts: 723
Date Joined: 12/12/10
I have eaten one cooked into
I have eaten one cooked into porridge...thought I would die from it.....but ended up having 2 more bowls! Didnt have diarrhoea either. Apparently the Thai & Burmese eat them like a normal fish....
Was fishing off Myanmar (Burma) on board for 6 days.....