Sea Sweep
Submitted by Grey Ghost on Sun, 2016-04-03 16:29
My son caught a 50cm sea sweep behind Rotto early this morning. Poor kid, got him out of bed at 4:30am and apart from a baldie, a pretty poor effort out there . A few scalyfins, undersized black arse cod and ended up going in closer for some flathead and sand whiting. I reckon we caught 15 very small flatties including one which was smaller than my sinker (struggled to get to 5cm - what's minimum legal size? Lol). Fished for 7 hours in amazingly calm conditions with very few fish on the fish finder.
Anyway he wanted to keep the largish sea sweep. Hutchins & Swainston indicate 3 stars out of 4. Worth keeping and eating next time?
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Dale
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Shoulda kept the little fish for your key ring
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Grey Ghost
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Taxidermist
Any taxidermists out there? Son reckons the little Flathead would have looked cool on a keyring.
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chris raff
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Sea sweep didn’t do much for
Sea sweep didn’t do much for my taste buds .. “swim be free” is my motto for them
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Sea Sweep fresh are decent
Sea Sweep fresh are decent chew - if spearing is slow that day I shoot them.
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carnarvonite
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Sea Sweep
Swim free in my book too unless you like eating cardboard
barracuda
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Yep eat
Yeah I eat them, bleed them - on ice
they are good if nothing else is caught
Jackfrost80
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My young fella loves King
My young fella loves King Wrasse but they really are a pain in the arse to fillet and skin and I'm always afraid I'm gonna chop my fingers off so never keep em unless I am going to drop their fillets back down
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Sounds exactly like my day on
Sounds exactly like my day on Saturday.
An undersized BA, a 50cm sea sweep and a few wrasse.
It was fish and chips at the Rotto pub for us.