manhands Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Friend came back in from 3 weeks at sea, their boat landed 14 tonne of Fish total. He gave me easily 20kg of clean Blue Eye Cod fillets as well as something I'd never seen or eaten before- Alfonsino. Look a bit like a Nannygai, beautiful bright red in colour. All they take of this Fish is snap frozen and sent to Japan- none sells here. Defrosted one last night and ate it- beautiful meat, great texture and flavour and a really good size for two to eat. Anyone ever got one bottom bashing deep? I never have, nor seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boattart Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 They are an occasional catch when bottom fishing Browns. I haven't caught one but know several that have that all claim them to be top of the table when it comes to eating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keflapod Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Hi Manhands, Jeez it must be nice to have friends like yours ! Getting blue-eye in big numbers at this time of year is no easy task so to score 20kg of fillets would send me over the moon ! I don't suppose you know where he fishes ? It wouldn't be the mountain - it gets fished to death. Yes the alphonsino is a beautiful fish, both to look at as well as to eat. I have seen a few caught but never caught one. The commercial dropliners do get them but then again not many as the hooks are geared towards the blue-eye, bar cod, bass broper, hapuka, gemfish, mirror dory and anything BIG. Bonne appetite mate... Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manhands Posted November 22, 2011 Author Share Posted November 22, 2011 Hi Manhands, Jeez it must be nice to have friends like yours ! Getting blue-eye in big numbers at this time of year is no easy task so to score 20kg of fillets would send me over the moon ! I don't suppose you know where he fishes ? It wouldn't be the mountain - it gets fished to death. Yes the alphonsino is a beautiful fish, both to look at as well as to eat. I have seen a few caught but never caught one. The commercial dropliners do get them but then again not many as the hooks are geared towards the blue-eye, bar cod, bass broper, hapuka, gemfish, mirror dory and anything BIG. Bonne appetite mate... Tony Hi Tony He told me they went past Lord Howe- so deep enough for all the above mentioned fish. Main weight of catch was Blue Eye. Funny story he told me- as all food stocks on board are deducted from wages as they eat it, they obviously end up eating mostly fish to max their pay. Guess what they ate mostly (15 blokes)? Throat of Blue Eye Guy has a pretty good life, only works 9 months a year on excellent money, mostly spent vacuuming Atlantic salmon out of pens off Tassie as they are ordered. Plenty good meals for me in next few weeks. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmac Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Hi, Where is the lord howe? Can't see in the map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishmaniac Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 (edited) Hi, Where is the lord howe? Can't see in the map. Around 700km from Sydney Heads.... Edited November 22, 2011 by fishmaniac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Let them eat their whale reserves and have them stop killing all marine mammals before we send them anything is my comment. OOOOOPPPPSSSS!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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