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Post by geoff on Jun 17, 2012 13:27:01 GMT -5
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Post by helens on Jun 17, 2012 13:35:16 GMT -5
I' ve never had Halibut, but are those huge FLOUNDERS? Wow. If you're hauling up flounders, that means you are bottom fishing (and I see the weights)... halibuts are bottom fish??
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Post by geoff on Jun 17, 2012 13:37:44 GMT -5
Halibut is a flat fish like flounder, but more delicious lol.
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Post by unclestu2u on Jun 17, 2012 14:24:55 GMT -5
How many did you bring in? Halibut and sword fish are among my favorites. Though nothing beats Sockeye.
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jun 17, 2012 14:36:17 GMT -5
Great pics! Good one of the barf-o-rama, great timing! ;D Hey, in pic#5, is that a whale?
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Post by Pat on Jun 17, 2012 18:42:57 GMT -5
Halibut is a delicious white fish. We can catch salmon off our coast.
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Post by grayfingers on Jun 17, 2012 19:11:44 GMT -5
Wow, that looks like a great fishing trip! I suspect that the fellow that was having a Coors breakfast was amongst the rail retchers. . . is that one spiny critter a snapper?
Halibut is great poached in court bouillon, served with fresh young potatoes and asparagus spears with the whole plate drenched in sauce Bearnaise.
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Post by helens on Jun 17, 2012 22:46:58 GMT -5
I looked up halibut and the info out there is really confusing. Several sites said that flounder is used as the generic name for ALL flatfish (which sounds true, since I've eaten halibut like you show before, and thought it was flounder), but that in the areas where they fish for halibut, there's a different bony barely edible fish called the arrowhead flounder.
On the east coast, flounders are all a thick steak-like white, flakey heavy with a central spine that lifts right off once cooked, and almost no other bones. No other fish is as boneless as flounder here. Then I saw that sole and turbot were also flatfish.
Eastern flounder is more grey and not quite as thick, but they get up to 18" long also. We used to fish for it in the LI Sound when I was a kid, and they loved bloodworms. When they're hitting, you could put 3 lines on 1 weight and pull up 3 big flounder in one caste. I had no idea that halibut was a flat fish and was also white with few bones. But I've seen it before at markets, I just assumed it was flounder. Learn something new every day:).
My favorite fish to eat tho is grouper, or super mild flakey white fish. I'm not a fan of fishy fish or fish with lots of bones. In Florida, we mostly catch sea bass, big mouth bass, snapper and sea trout, and very rarely snook. People also catch and eat grunts, cobia, parrotfish, angelfish, but those are too fishy or bony for me. For charter fishing, they mostly go for shark and swordfish. The other thing we can catch ourselves is shrimp, you can just go net them in season (with a boat of course). It's interesting to see what people catch in other parts of the world!
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Post by geoff on Jun 17, 2012 23:16:04 GMT -5
Halibut is a flatfish, genus Hippoglossus, from the family of the right-eye flounders (Pleuronectidae).
The halibut is the largest flat fish, averaging 11–13.5 kilograms (24–30 lb), but catch as large as 333 kilograms (730 lb) are reported; the largest recently recorded[5] was 245 kilograms (540 lb) taken off the coast of Northern Norway and 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) long.
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Post by geoff on Jun 17, 2012 23:20:33 GMT -5
There are 101 individual species in the right-eye flounder family. There are 115 individual species in the left-eye family.
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Post by geoff on Jun 17, 2012 23:24:44 GMT -5
The spiny one is a rock fish, the 5th picture is a whale, the guy drinking was number 4 to puke.
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Post by helens on Jun 17, 2012 23:32:50 GMT -5
Well, that's a heck of a job, where they make you go fishing for work Geoff!! LOL! Did you see Bill's recipe for smoking fish:)? If you get lots of extra fish, it sounds like a great way to keep some:)!!
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Post by roy on Jun 18, 2012 0:07:21 GMT -5
dang geoff your one lucky dude nothin better thank bacon wraped halibut ! the orange roughy those are good to
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Post by catmandewe on Jun 18, 2012 8:23:58 GMT -5
Sounds like a rough job, don't know how you put up with it!
Tony
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Post by texaswoodie on Jun 18, 2012 10:19:25 GMT -5
Wow, I could eat my weight in Halibut. Nice trip! (Except the puking part)
Curt
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Post by herchenx on Jun 18, 2012 17:26:39 GMT -5
yeah I love Halibut.
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