Wobbegong good chewing?
Submitted by teamjelly on Thu, 2016-11-03 08:55
Hey all, just wondering a bit of info bout Wobbie's. I caught and released a decent size one the other day, had a feed on board already but since telling a few crew about it they said they're good chewing!?
Anyone chopped one of these bad boys up? If so just for future reference just knock the fins off etc like sharks yeah?
Cheers in advance.
____________________________________________________________________________
Give a man to fish and he'll eat for a day, Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in his boat and drink all day...
barracuda
Posts: 197
Date Joined: 01/09/13
Yep
Fin them for sure, lots of good meat. Their main diet is crays. They taste pretty good, hard to skin though
soaking in milk make for good fillets too
teamjelly
Posts: 47
Date Joined: 27/07/16
Cheers Barra, Soak in milk
Cheers Barra,
Soak in milk before cooking?
Give a man to fish and he'll eat for a day, Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in his boat and drink all day...
Tradewind
Posts: 756
Date Joined: 18/09/12
Really enjoy a feed of wobby
Really enjoy a feed of wobby but their skin can be a prick to cut through
Keep a sharpener handy for your fillet knife or use pliers to try and get the skin off
Ron Ashcroft
Posts: 95
Date Joined: 22/11/07
They taste awesome mate poor
They taste awesome mate poor mans crayfish is what we used to call them.The trick to skinning them without ruining your knife is to make a cut then turn your knife over and cut from the underside of the skin works a treat.
Doggie
Posts: 38
Date Joined: 13/03/15
Go great in a Curry
Go great in a Curry
Dale
Posts: 7930
Date Joined: 13/09/05
+1 for eating and +1 for the tough skin, need to have 3 knives on the go with one being sharpened all the time. Worth the effort though.
"Just because you are a Character, Doesn't mean you have Character."
Mr Wolf
Uluabuster
Posts: 722
Date Joined: 12/12/10
Agreed. Nice soft white
Agreed. Nice soft white flesh and taste awesome in curry but a bitch to fillet.
carnarvonite
Posts: 8627
Date Joined: 24/07/07
Bigger is best
The small ones are tough but as they get bigger the flesh improves out of sight. Don't agree with currying them as its a waste of quality fish and that's coming from a retired pro fisherman.
The trick to skinning them is to cut from the inside of the skin, put the tip of the knife on the skin to make a small hole then turn the blade over so that the sharp side is up and you are only using a small section of the blade to slice the skin.
Cutting the fins off when you catch it is a complete waste of time , energy and the edge off your knife, what is important is to get the guts and the brown strip along the spine out as soon as possible
Good luck
Plug
Posts: 333
Date Joined: 14/02/15
they do taste amazing but the
they do taste amazing but the wobbies i have done have been filited with very hard knifes and they seem to stay sharper longer.
i need cheaper hobbies
Alan James
Posts: 2206
Date Joined: 30/06/09
Hook stanley knife blade
I read on another forum that filleting sharks and other hard skinned fish can be made easier by using a hook stanley knife blade to cut through the skin after you make the initial puncture. This follows the same principle as others have said above by cutting the skin from the inside out. After filleting a 12kgish wobby using the conventional approach I swore I would never attempt it again. Amazingly the fillets or pieces that looked like stiff pieces of cardboard transposed into soft moist flesh once cooked.
meglodon
Posts: 5981
Date Joined: 17/06/10
Skinning a wobby
Cut a very small hole just through the skin, insert a shradder valve or similar connect the valve up to a compressor and pump air into between skin and flesh.
This won't get all the skin released from the flesh but does get a lot of it released and the job is easier IMO
teamjelly
Posts: 47
Date Joined: 27/07/16
Cheers all!
Thanks fellas for all the info! i'll remember to pack another knife next time I pop out to the spot.
Give a man to fish and he'll eat for a day, Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in his boat and drink all day...
todd davies
Posts: 28
Date Joined: 14/03/16
Stanley knife is the trick
if you try the compressor make sure it's not passing oil , or has a good air/oil separator..just saying.