Thread: Butter fish

So my good mate goes spear fishing for his first time and turns up with 10 or so butter fish.
I have never eaten them as i use bait and shit so when he says cook em up im a bit fucked.
Enter my gourmet wifey( looking and as a cook) and whips us up a good old beer batter.

Almost a whole craft beer
200 g flour
2 eggs

Whip that shit and dunk

I used a fondu pot

Let it drain

Serve with a bit of sweet chili cause like it says its sweet!


Have a feed, have a yarn with good bastards and Forget the Monday blues!!! Until tomorrow that is!

Never eaten it but heard its really good?

Yeah man not called butter fish for nothing. Really liked it. And the beers.

I think there is an trick to filleting them. They have green/bluish bones IIRC and somewhere they are full of iodine?? This can taint the flesh?

They are beautiful eating.

I have only ever rolled in flour and fried in butter.

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Oh shit must have fluked it!

that looks palatable for my taste buds............yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Originally Posted by Gibo

So my good mate goes spear fishing for his first time and turns up with 10 or so butter fish.
I have never eaten them as i use bait and shit so when he says cook em up im a bit fucked.
Enter my gourmet wifey( looking and as a cook) and whips us up a good old beer batter.

Almost a whole craft beer
200 g flour
2 eggs

Whip that shit and dunk
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I used a fondu pot
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Let it drain
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Serve with a bit of sweet chili cause like it says its sweet!
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Have a feed, have a yarn with good bastards and Forget the Monday blues!!! Until tomorrow that is!

Beautiful I bet Gibo

Oh yum they look tastie,never heard of butter fish are they a river or sea fish.

Theyre a sea fish, the live in and around kelp and weed beds, feed on snails and very small crustations. they have very small mouths and are normaly speared or set netted.

They can be very shy/spooky and are a great challange to spear whist freediving but are amazing eating.

legal size is 35 cms +

Butterfish

Had some of this my mate caught, he cooked it up in beer batter. Some of the best fish I've ever had bloody good eating.

Originally Posted by cbfb

Had some of this my mate caught, he cooked it up in beer batter. Some of the best fish I've ever had bloody good eating.

I agree mate

Originally Posted by mrs dundee

Oh yum they look tastie,never heard of butter fish are they a river or sea fish.

Yeah super tasty, quite dense but really soft and creamy.....loved it. Cant catch them on bait hence why many people have not tried it.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Cant catch them on bait hence why many people have not tried it.

Most are via spear fishermen but they can be caught on a little bit of mussel (or so I have heard). They are mostly vegetarian.

I catch mine with spear gun free diving , but have a mate that has caught them with mussel . He cuts a hole in the calp at low tide , then wates for tide come in . The other name for them is" green bone ". The fish frame has a green / blue colour when filleted . The flesh is vivid white and very morish !

Iv only ever had em from a net,not mine i don't own a net. Embarrassed smilie here.
Have tried targeting them from shore with really small hooks and bits of bacon. Got one on and lost it.


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