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TreasonousBastard

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9. Around here bluefish are the booby prize when your hunt for stripers or legal fluke goes south...

Sat Jun 20, 2020, 02:05 PM

Jun 2020

Fortunately, I like bluefish, and used to keep a mess of them in the freezer.

I grossed out unknowing visitors by cooking up large vats of fishhead stew. The bluefish heads would bounce up to the top just as people were asking "what's this". (I think it was the eyes that got them.)

Anyway, once they got over their ridiculous revulsion, I showed them how to pop out the cheeks and they loved it.

Carniverous fish (which is most of them) develop strong jaw muscles, which makes them quite tasty.

The cats enjoyed it, too.

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Trout! [View all] Blue_playwright Jun 2020 OP

One of my favorite fishes! Vinnie From Indy Jun 2020 #1

I had fresh rainbow trout right out of the stream in Yosemite backcountry years ago. lark Jun 2020 #2

We fished in Montana and were able to do that as well. It was so divine that it ruined me Nay Jun 2020 #4

I was born and bred eating fish and seafood and that will never change. lark Jun 2020 #5

We ate fresh salmon straight out of the river in British Columbia! Heaven. Just heaven. Nay Jun 2020 #6

Educate the family that the best meat on a fish is the cheeks. TreasonousBastard Jun 2020 #3

Yes, Halibut cheeks! dem in texas Jun 2020 #8

Around here bluefish are the booby prize when your hunt for stripers or legal fluke goes south... TreasonousBastard Jun 2020 #9

I live along 2naSalit Jun 2020 #7