Please Help With These 2 Types Of Wrasse (Crimson Banded, Blue Throat)

[mrelxr6]

hi guys.

i was out fishing the 7 mile beach on the perfect south coast today and we cought a few leather jackets and a couple of snapper.

we also fished in close to a rock platform.and we where catching these 2 types of fish 1 after another it was a joke.can you eat them?and if so are they any good?

http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfact...h/olineolat.htm

http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/ngymnog.htm

the second fish listed there was so similar but the ones we where catching had a yellow tail but same colours..

please help

[mrelxr6]

any one?

[Blackfish]

Nathen, you most certainly can eat them but finding them big enough to make them worthwhile is the hard part. Crimson Banded Wrasse, Blue Throat, Purple you will commonly see in live fish tanks in Chinese Restraunts

Yep there good tucker.

B.F.

[mrelxr6]

well if thats the case im kicking my self..me and my mate cought 2 each both 30+cm and were the males due to the colour

thanks for the reply blackfish

[barrykrocker]

mate, unless a fish is actually poisonous (which is very rare) you can eat them, and you will find people who will. whether or not you actually want to eat wrasse or not is your choice

[fishguts]

QLD maori wrasse, hump headed, was 70 cm + ( believe it or not) ??? top eating, but we could not touch

these ones, (marine zone) they "" would cut your hands off!

..cheers!..stevo!..

Edited June 6, 2007 by fishguts

[tiger_shark]

The wrasse are great eating.... better than bream and snapper in my opinion...

[Spanker]

Better than snapper? That's a big call, baked fresh snapper would be my all time favourite!

[tiger_shark]

Like i said...in my opinion. I rate bream and snapper on par with each other.. A couple of days ago i cooked a Crimson-banded Wrasse, Sargeant Baker and a bream... To my suprise, the baker was the nicest, followed by the wrasse and a distant 3rd was the bream. I'm no taste expert though.

[mrelxr6]

next time i go down i will keep the buggers and try them

[coastspinna]

next time i go down i will keep the buggers and try them

i tried a male crimson and thought it was average....

maori wrass are excellent.....

they are regular guests at me and my mates rock brekky sessions.... fillet... 6-7 minutes in a smoker.... toast and scrambled eggs... yummo...beats gettin brekky fom the shops... you get funny looks from ppl when you are cooking up a storm on the rocks at 7.30am

[mrelxr6]

lmao..i could understand why

[Aladin83]

i tried a male crimson and thought it was average....

maori wrass are excellent.....

they are regular guests at me and my mates rock brekky sessions.... fillet... 6-7 minutes in a smoker.... toast and scrambled eggs... yummo...beats gettin brekky fom the shops... you get funny looks from ppl when you are cooking up a storm on the rocks at 7.30am

I agree southern Maori wrasse are one of my favourites....my girl love crimson banded wrasse. I just caught four big males for her at sunset down of ben buckler...