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Title: Sea Robins to eat ?
Post by: fishon42 on July 05, 2007, 03:57:42 PM: I'm going to be honest with everyone, I kept 1 sea robin yesterday just to see how it was, and it wasnt that bad. Is there something wrong with this fish? LOL

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Title: Re: Sea Robins to eat ?
Post by: NJetty on July 05, 2007, 04:02:47 PM: Chunk them up, bread them, & fry'em... t^
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Post by: fishon42 on July 05, 2007, 04:05:12 PM: Exactly what i did!! Haha

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Title: Re: Sea Robins to eat ?
Post by: ped579 on July 05, 2007, 04:05:55 PM: Hey NJetty, missed your bouncing buggy.

Also missed your reports... TT^

Paul
Title: Re: Sea Robins to eat ?
Post by: mboy on July 05, 2007, 05:28:35 PM: Many people eat them and say they are god.
I believe they are bony tho and that is ther main turnoff.
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Post by: IrishAyes on July 05, 2007, 05:51:35 PM: Boney...and the way they look. :o
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Post by: CAPT. JOHN K. on July 10, 2007, 09:53:00 AM: Not bad when used in a chowder. Can also be pan fried as we did with blowfish many years ago. You're just using the tail meat. Not as sweet as blowfish but still very palatable.
Could be the next trendy fish if they ever come up with a catchy sounding name.(Monkfish,Sea Squab,etc.) Think the public would buy a monkfish if they ever saw the whole fish? Bon Appetite!

Capt. John K.
Title: Re: Sea Robins to eat ?
Post by: wingshooter on July 10, 2007, 10:00:32 AM: I've had them before, just lift the top fin up count back 3-4 spines and cut straight down, youre left with clean meat, i have added it to fish stews not bad
Title: Re: Sea Robins to eat ?
Post by: Luna Sea 5 on July 10, 2007, 10:02:45 AM: nothing wrong with them, I just don't prefer them.
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Post by: mchizhik on August 02, 2007, 11:19:08 AM: NASTY NASTY NASTY NASTY NASTY NASTY NASTY
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Post by: Skolmann on August 02, 2007, 08:53:44 PM: Taste like chicken....or does chicken taste like sea robin.... ???
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Post by: pktaske on August 07, 2007, 10:14:39 PM: I tried one last week...pan seared with some olive oil and red pepper flakes. Not bad at all. Might be heresy to say this, but I would put it in the same taste class as striped bass and weakfish for my tastes...a solid second tier on the taste ladder. Slight fishy-ness to it but not over powering like bluefish. You're not going to mistake it for fluke or halibut(but then what does)?
Title: Re: Sea Robins to eat ?
Post by: Kevin on August 08, 2007, 06:27:24 PM: We had a guy on our fluking trip yesterday(aug.7) and he kept a sea robin and a skate, i have heard of friends eating them and saying there pretty good, im going to catch one tomorow and filet it and eat it, we'll see!
Title: Re: Sea Robins to eat ?
Post by: wb on August 31, 2007, 02:45:19 PM: I say if yer gonna cut em up why not use em fer bait? Anyone ever try? how'd it work out? I'd bet you prolly could catch some sea robbins with em....
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Post by: Fishin Dude on September 04, 2007, 08:31:47 PM: I used to Sea a Robin and she was great to eat. <'((((><
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Post by: CapBob on September 04, 2007, 08:56:47 PM: whs BA-DUM-BUM :o :o
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Post by: TurboDan on October 02, 2007, 10:47:07 PM: Ha, I have a friend who keeps dogfish for dinner. Cooked right, they ain't that bad.
Title: Re: Sea Robins to eat ?
Post by: wink_man on October 26, 2007, 07:57:09 PM: I have eaten dogfish, but never tried a sea robin. Sea robin belly is excellent fluke & weakfish bait, much better than squid, and the only thing that beats sea robin belly is weakfish belly as a strip bait.
Garry
Title: Re: Sea Robins to eat ?
Post by: Luna Sea 5 on October 26, 2007, 08:08:45 PM: Quote from: wink_man on October 26, 2007, 07:57:09 PM
I have eaten dogfish, but never tried a sea robin. Sea robin belly is excellent fluke & weakfish bait, much better than squid, and the only thing that beats sea robin belly is weakfish belly as a strip bait.
Garry
no kidding.. I would hate to waste a nice weakfish for strip bait.
Title: Re: Sea Robins to eat ?
Post by: wink_man on October 26, 2007, 08:31:17 PM: Quote from: Luna Sea 3 on October 26, 2007, 08:08:45 PM
Quote from: wink_man on October 26, 2007, 07:57:09 PM
I have eaten dogfish, but never tried a sea robin. Sea robin belly is excellent fluke & weakfish bait, much better than squid, and the only thing that beats sea robin belly is weakfish belly as a strip bait.
Garry
no kidding.. I would hate to waste a nice weakfish for strip bait.

You don't waste any of a nice weakfish at all when you cut the belly for a strip bait.

What I do is, I turn the fish on his back, and make a cut right behind the fins, just down to where the white belly meat meets the fillet. Then turn the knife sideways, and cut parralel to the backbone down to the anus for your belly strip. Now you can fillet the fish and you haven't wasted anything at all. The rib cage and belly meat is cut off a properly prepared fillet anyways, thats where all the fatty tissue is, and is generally not eaten(not by me anyways).
Garry
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Post by: Luna Sea 5 on October 26, 2007, 08:36:35 PM: sounds like a good idea. I will try it next season.. Since the peanut bunker are so plentyful lately, and everything eats them, you can save alot of money while flukin... especially with the price of Killies...
Title: Re: Sea Robins to eat ?
Post by: wink_man on October 26, 2007, 08:47:24 PM: Quote from: Luna Sea 3 on October 26, 2007, 08:36:35 PM
sounds like a good idea. I will try it next season.. Since the peanut bunker are so plentyful lately, and everything eats them, you can save alot of money while flukin... especially with the price of Killies...

I always freeze the bellies for the next season, so I always have some good bait on hand early in the season. Also at times when I'm fishing from land, I prefer a weakfish belly on a jighead for fluke over live bait, I can cast it further and fish more area effectively. The kids freeze peanuts at times, but obviously they're better live. How much are killies? I've never purchased them. I live a block from Barnegat Bay in the Kettle Creek area, and the mud flats there are loaded with killies, have always caught my own. Years ago, my kids even supplied Pells with killies when his bait guy couldn't catch them, it was funny, I'm on vacation, running the kids back and forth from the bay to Pells with killies, instead of fishing, but the kids were thrilled, and thats what counts.
Garry
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Post by: mckee17 on October 26, 2007, 09:39:17 PM: While in France, I stopped in a fish market out of curiosity and was suprised to see Sea Robins for sale.