What Speice This Fish Is ?

[terry1985]

l caught it in The Entrane -Norah Head

[brickman]

looks like sweep to me

gary

[Bruce the Postie]

Yep,

Thats a dirty rotten Sweep.

Cheers

Bruce

[Penguin]

Sweep

penguin

[cupster]

yep,sweep alright,...not many people would bother keeping them due to their poor eating qualities.But i'm curious, [never tried them myself] have you eaten any yet? if so,how were they?...are they really that bad??

Edited April 28, 2008 by hooked4life

[rizzo]

SWEEP,SWEEP,SWEEP,WEEP

Cheers

Rizzo

[the1murph]

sweeeeeeeeeep

[terry1985]

in my opinion,it is delicious for me..

l am a chinese..this kind of meat ,we like to it

just like the wrasse...we like to eat wrasse too.

l cook it only steam by boiled water around 5min time..u can try it too

[Christos]

I am not a big fishing eater but I have tried them and the thing is they do need to be cooked with some sauce.

They have a bland taste on their own and so that is why so many people put these fish back.

[james7]

Sweep are bland and boney. I used to throw them back until we tried smoking some. They're nearly as nice as tailor when smoked.

Put the sweep fillets in a brine and brown sugar solution for about an hour, pat them dry, then put them in the smoker for 15-20 minutes.

Fantastic!

The only other way I would eat sweep is in fishcakes. However, as Christos says, a sauce may help.

Cheers

Peter

Edited April 29, 2008 by peterS

[terry1985]

l cook the fish with soya sauce

l can tell u that it is better than bream and tailor if u cook well

l dont like to eat bream

the size of fish around 40cm is much delicious

[Mullet]

Hi all,

Everyone can have their own opinion, be a sad world if we were all the same. But when it comes to Sweep, I had the chance to try them once a few years again, I could not believe that something that looked like it would taste OK could really taste so bad, I think it would go down as the worst thing I have ever tasted.

Anyway, I can say I have tried them and I can say I will never do it again.

Cheers, Steve

[Beaver]

I used to always throw them back after reading what people said about them. Then I read on here that someone ate them and that they were not bad so I thought I would keep 1 or 2 and give it a go. Filleted them and put them on the bbq bit of thai style sauce on the top and they were quite nice...

I think I would only keep a couple if I couldnt catch anything else as bream, flatties, snapper are all much better eating fish. Not bad on the odd occasion with a nice sauce..

Edited May 1, 2008 by Beaver