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Not sure what it weighed scales max out at 4kg so bigger than 4 lol. Wasn't too bad getting him out, just trying to get him in the bag was a nightmare had to take him back to the boat. The horns must have been snapped off a while ago as one had healed over and the other had a "gimpy" feeler growing back.

Haven't been on for a while thought I'd share my monster cray with all you guys and make your mouths water got it out of coffins with a tail snare the other day. And yes that is a carton of beer it is hugging and making look small.

Anyone got any good cray recipes? Want to try something different other than boiling big slobs of Crays maybe a soy/ ginger mix? Or any BBQ recipes to try?

Not to cold at the moment Dylzz I got a few yesterday in my 5mm suit not too cold, just very merky in my area so struggled to find them in 6-7m of water had to dive down and search on a breath lol. Smashing whole has been my most success so far and have tried them marinated on BBQ, deep fried and in stir frys always taste good

Wahoo I have found tenderizing them whole and then slicing is much easier and I find actually works better if you can get it to implode on itself. Does the kiwi fruit add a flavor to it? What do you do just soak it with kiwi fruit or cook it with it?

It's coming on summer time, and I regurly get abalone diving. Usually I shuck them, beat the crap out of them and then slice thinly does the trick but it's a lot of work, even though it is worth it as they are very tasty. I am looking at other ways to cook/ prepare to tenderize them have heard of them being soaked in milk overnight then rinsed and apparently it does the trick. My indigenous friend holding them whole just smashed them on the rocks in the shell and it pretty much shucks itself and he recons comes out perfect ( put a whole ab in a sandwich and eat perfect) just looking at a few d

Have got a few blue grouper over the last year and have enjoyed eating them various ways, BUT I just found the best way so far. For those of you that do not know the flesh is very, very firm and if not cut into small peices is almost like eating a steak. But cut into small peices about the size of chicken nuggets, batter them in a batter of your choice and deep fry, absalutely amazing almost like pop corn chicken. Will have to try a few other things the same way soon I think.

Nothing compared to Tommie's or flathead anyway. Nanygai, blue grouper and blue morwong are up there with my top most rated fish and all taste great without masking their flavor although a lot of people cut grouper into big fillets which ruins it texture wise best way is to cut it into small strips as it is very tough for fish flesh and you almost need a knife to seperate it when cooked if it is in large peices. Before you have a go at me for keeping blue grouper there are a lot of them here when you go to the offshore reefs.

Snapper are over rated, honestly not many people eat snapper without masking their flavor. Next time you get one try just cooking it in a bit floured in butter it's really not that great tasting.

Yeah they are decent sashimi, needs to be very fresh though.

Yeah ale usually I skin and bone, but then again I usually get big ones 40cm + got 8 today with most 30-35 so a bit of a waste filleting also I think they taste better when cooked whole. Ginger coriander and soy sounds good kelvin, might add some of my other little bits n pieces to it as well galangal, Lemon grass etc. don't get many snapper here only seasonal catch a lot of nanygai out wide but snapper aren't too common, more likely to catch blue morwong than snapper, much tastier in my opinion anyway. Thanks for the input guys

I usually just Willet and skin and cook in butter/ garlic etc although got a few today and want to try some new recipes whole, have only ever had with tomatoes onion and lemon and baked, anyone got any other good recipes/ ideas to give a shot? Was thinking a thai style stuffing might be interesting. Anyway what ya got? What works well? Look forward to hearing from all you chefs out there.

Yeah was letting them run as usually had to wind my little rod I was catching bait with first, not sure about them mouthing it as was pullin up half slimey mackerels and when they where getting hit they where hit hard even with a slight drag reels where screaming was very strange it was as if they would Suss out the bait and grab the opposite end of the bait to the hook, had one take a dead bait as well so not too fussed about them dying on the hook just being very fresh

Was always under the impression fluro was better and I don't mind putting a fresh livie on every 10 mins

Yeah might give it a crack along with some rigs with 3 hooks that way if they take it bound to get one in their gob

I meant fluro carbon^^ using 80 lb braid main line with 85lb fluro carbon leader about 3m leader always make it nice and long incase they head to structure or go under the boat when they are along side just for the abrasion resistance.

Softy usually let them run for about 10 seconds as had rod in holder, 10 seconds was a heap of line though, reels where screening had a slight drag on but as soon as the strike came hooks kept getting spat or pulled out of the mouth pulled up a few half fish after the runs as well so I'm thinking several hooks will do the trick. I should perfect my method go buy a charter liscence and start running charters out of coffins haha in my boat could run them a lot cheaper than the other charters do lol. Would have to be like 3 ppl max though

Yeah I think next time I will rig up with 2-3 hooks one around the tail one free around mid body and another through the mouth, at least that way it can't not get a hook in its mouth if it grab the fish, I was striking pretty hard do I need to? Is that a bad idea? Also using suicide hooks not circles should I use circles? Although I don't like circles find I don't get as many hook ups

Bottom hook dangling? Would it work one through the nose other through the tail if there where a bit of slack between the hooks so it could swim? Just thinking is the bottom hook going to do much dangling? I think the reason we where loosing fish is because the fish where taking the live baits on the opposite end of the hook as pulled a few half slimeys up

Hey guys targeted kingfish the other day around rocky island, berleyed up hard caught some live slimy makeral and rigged them up wih an 85 lb fireline leader with a single 8/0 hook through the tail or mouth just let them drift around behind the boat. After about 20 minutes had our first hit, the reel started screaming took the rod out of the holder and strike, the hook pulled with ease. Cutting a long story short this happened about 5 times the hook was well exposed on the livie should I be using gang hooks? Tried some jigging but had no luck only a few really big blue throat wrasse, how do I

Yeah I would be happy to take people out boat isn't huge only 5.25m but plenty of deck space and comfortable for 3, handles the weather out wide fine haven't had any dramas yet as long as I pick my days.

Haha Clark I've got a few mates I've met on fb have come down for hollidays and have taken them out if your down this way give us a shout! Always keen to get out although gets expensive goin out all the time by myself I don't mind forking out if I can split it with 1-2 cost me about $150 for the day in fuel maybe a bit less yesterday all bait was left over bits n peices or caught out there so not too bad with 1-2 people but pricey by myself.

Launched at coffins lol was about a 45km hike