Are Bull Reds Good Eating?
Are Bull Reds Good Eating?
If I recall, Texas fishing limits allows one oversized Red Drum to be kept along with a second if you have a bonus tag. Are Bull Reds good eating fare or just the younger Redfish?
you can eat them but the smaller ones taste better IMO ....... i also think the big ones are a pain to clean ....... i have only kept 1 over sized red & it was 42". i was living in an apartment at the time & had to clean him in the bath tub ..... he took up the whole tub & my back was killing me from leaning over to clean him.
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Lol, funny mental picture.Eazy-E wrote:you can eat them but the smaller ones taste better IMO ....... i also think the big ones are a pain to clean ....... i have only kept 1 over sized red & it was 42". i was living in an apartment at the time & had to clean him in the bath tub ..... he took up the whole tub & my back was killing me from leaning over to clean him.
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Same experience here. I just release the fish from then on. They are such beautiful fish.sherwood wrote:Cleaning a bullred is a PAIN IN THE A$$. You better have the fish on a table because your back will be aching. You have to do a lot of cleaning/slicing to get all the blood out. I will never again keep a bull red. The only reason why I kept that one was because my mom wanted some fish. NEVER AGAIN!
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when they get that size they are good for one thing and one thing only.. breeding.
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I've kept and cooked a few. The taste isn't the issue. It's the cleaning. The bigger the redfish, the bigger and tougher the scales. And...the bloodline between the meat and the skin can be nearly 1/4" thick in places.
Let 'em go to make more babies. Cleaning them is not worth the effort. BTW, I'm from Louisiana, where you can keep one a day over 27" and I still let anything go over about 30-32".
Let 'em go to make more babies. Cleaning them is not worth the effort. BTW, I'm from Louisiana, where you can keep one a day over 27" and I still let anything go over about 30-32".
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When I first moved here from West Texas I didn't know nothin' about saltwater fishing. I caught a bull red on my first outing...man I was stoked. Threw that big ol boy in the trunk and hauled it home. 3 hours later my back yard looked like a crime scene. I filled the freezer enough meat to last a year, but after that first meal the thrill was gone. Just one small step on the saltwater learning curve...
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BULL REDS
Trout have worms in them to, in fact it seems like at least half the fish i clean have a few worms in em. They are the little white spots in the meat. If you pull one out they will uncoil about an inch long. Just fry or bake your fish untill it is good and done.You can't see em or taste em after the fish is cooked. I have taken smaller a smaller Bull Red and cubed it and cooked it in gumbo and the meat tasted a lot like crab meat. One fish will make all the gumbo you could eat eat in a year.
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I was told that any bottom feeding fish has worms. They are just more pronounced in larger fish. In other words, the worms are proportional to the fish size.
In smaller fish, you have to look closely to find the worms. In big fish such as bull reds, you can't miss them.
Again, this is what I was told. I have not observe this myself; however, I believe just about everything my older brother tells me.
In smaller fish, you have to look closely to find the worms. In big fish such as bull reds, you can't miss them.
Again, this is what I was told. I have not observe this myself; however, I believe just about everything my older brother tells me.
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there are worms in all fish in the drum family, redfish, croaker, trout, black drum etc. But there are different speceies of worms for each different species of fish. All worms found in these fish are most often called spaghetti worms, you can guess why. Worms that live and grow in trout live in the middle of the body, very easy to see in a fillet. Worms that live in red drum or black drum tend to live more toward the tail. Not as easy to find when cutting the fillets.
The worms life cycles are complex, involving sharks, small finfish and medium size predators. Worms in trout means a healthy bay system, the worms will be the first to go if the chain of predators is ever broke.
The worms life cycles are complex, involving sharks, small finfish and medium size predators. Worms in trout means a healthy bay system, the worms will be the first to go if the chain of predators is ever broke.
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