Thread: Blue fish. What's your opinion on them

Last Sunday I was down at little lagoon pass about 9Am after about 25 min of being there hardly seeing the water even ripple I got a nibble. It was a flounder caught it on a gulp shrimp...was very excited since I have never caught a flounder....( new to salt water fishing). Anyways about another 25 or 30 min go by and I decide to throw a gotcha plug yellow head silver body and first cast 3 1/2 pouND blue fish. That was a fun catch lol. Never caught one of them either. We made fish tacos out of both..anyou other ways to eat blue fish?

Flounder is great anyway you cook it and it freezes well. Bluefish are best fresh-I like them but there are those that don't. Bluefish fried or grilled is good eating, and anybody that doesn't like flounder just doesn't like fish. Congrats on your catch!

Bluefish is one of my favorites to eat as long as it is frest (one or two days) with all the red meat cut out---the red tastes sort of like cheap canned tuna. I like it fried or broiled, but it does not freeze well. They are fun to catch---good fighters.

Cool thx for the info. Eat blue fresh. Gotcha. Lol (haha gotcha plug.

Fresh, and with all red meat removed, they are excellent. I have eaten them frozen and they are edible, but not great. However, I have smoked frozen blues and they have been very good in a smoked fish dip.

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Originally Posted by Pier#r

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Just a comment that in the first picture of raw bluefish fillets, the dark red mean in the first and third fillets is what people in the posts above want you to remove (and it is only on the surface of the white meat). Obviously removal is a matter of taste and preparation, but the larger the bluefish the greater the need.

The same advice applies to fillets of other species with the red stripe -- the red has the strongest flavor.

I made fish tacos with the last batch I caught. Made a spicy batter, fried them up and into tacos with shredded cabbage, carrots, sour cream and salsa.

Flounder are my second favorite - pompano first. Blues are strong tasting if you don't bleed them.

The only blues I've eaten were fish that my grandfather caught and froze when I was a child. Not sure about fresh, but I still remember the frozen bluefish fillets being unpleasant.