Do You eat what You catch?

joleeng · Post by **joleeng** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:25 pm

I've wondered how many people catch and release and how many eat what they catch and if you do eat what you catch,how do you prepare your fish..also what type are you eating and caught from where...

fishnfool73 · Post by **fishnfool73** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:36 am

Post this question in the cooking section and you should get a response or three. I wouldn't eat anything out of freshwater in South Florida.

Jluna · Post by **Jluna** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:37 pm

i eat peacock from freshwater and they taste great

fishnfool73 · Post by **fishnfool73** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:39 pm

Enjoy cancer in the future....

Jluna · Post by **Jluna** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:41 pm

i have heard that, but my uncle thats 56 is perfectly fine

fishnfool73 · Post by **fishnfool73** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:47 pm

Well then best of luck to you . I have seen what is floating around in the local canals and ponds. I wouldn't eat anything out of the local fresh waters . I don't care who says otherwise. I catch more than enough good eating fish out of salt water than to mess with peacocks and such.

Jluna · Post by **Jluna** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:51 pm

ok, well can you tell me why its so bad, im not trying to argue or anything but i wanna know why before i make a decision to not eat them

fishnfool73 · Post by **fishnfool73** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:05 pm

Have you ever looked at the garbage that is floating around in the canals you fish ? Forget the used condoms and hypodermic needles look at what is truely in the water. Oil and gas from runoff and stolen cars dumped in them. Pesticides that are washed into them. People dump the chemicals from their pools. I stopped eating fresh water fish a few years back alomg with inland saltwater species when I had an experience. I was rinsing a fillet off and watched the huge amount of oils that floated to the top of the sink. Nasty and scary, why do you think they have boil water orders down here ? Human waste is dumped right into the area canals along with the above toxins, I'll pass. People use canals and lakes as dumping grounds for hazardous toxins that they can't legally dispose of at area dumps die to pollution laws. They get around costly disposal fees by dumping them in area waterways.

The water clarity has changed in South Florida in my lifetime. Decades ago you could see the bottom and the water looked clear. The bass and bream had white fillets and no cancerous growths on them. Now the water is dirty with crud floating on top and the fish have brownish fillets. I have found black lumps in the fish fillets that are not worms that I never saw in hundreds of fish I filleted years ago.

Jluna · Post by **Jluna** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:08 pm

wow, thats def an eyeopener i have really never put much thought into that....thanks

bolo · Post by **bolo** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:08 pm

I do not eat any fish from freshwater canals or ICW in South Florida.

PhishingPhanatic · Post by **PhishingPhanatic** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:23 pm

bolo wrote:I do not eat any fish from freshwater canals or ICW in South Florida.

You couldn't pay me to eat freshwater fish from S. Florida.

Cookinman · Post by **Cookinman** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:46 pm

I'm on board W That as well - NO freshwater fish or ICW fish for any reason.

For all the reasons stated above...

Dude, do yourself a favor - release em, catch em, release em again.
Go to the ocean and meat fish.

fishnfool73 · Post by **fishnfool73** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:52 pm

COOKINMAN he is a she......

bolo · Post by **bolo** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:47 pm

Itlanian can't tell the difference since their woman are just as hairy as the men.

Cookinman · Post by **Cookinman** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:48 pm

bolo wrote:Itlanian can't tell the difference since their woman are just as hairy as the men.

It is easy - the men are far less ruthless.
Sum it up in this way - I married Colombian because the temperment was far more even keeled.

fishnfool73 wrote:COOKINMAN he is a she......

oops - sorry.

Sirsnookalot · Post by **Sirsnookalot** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:47 am

I think fishnfool73 said it all.

bolo · Post by **bolo** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:23 am

Cookinman wrote:Sum it up in this way - I married Colombian because the temperment was far more even keeled.

When you guys got marry was your wedding full of mobsters and cartels? I bet the FBI hit the jackpot that day.

ddratler · Post by **ddratler** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:18 pm

would any of you eat the fish out of a lake in orlando?

bolo · Post by **bolo** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:06 pm

It all depend on the water and mercury level of the fish.

fishnfool73 · Post by **fishnfool73** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:08 pm

ddratler wrote:would any of you eat the fish out of a lake in orlando?

Not me given the level of pollution that Big Sugar has dumped into Big O

cantseeme47 · Post by **cantseeme47** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:58 pm

Have you ever looked at the garbage that is floating around in the canals you fish ? Forget the used condoms and hypodermic needles look at what is truely in the water. Oil and gas from runoff and stolen cars dumped in them. Pesticides that are washed into them. People dump the chemicals from their pools. I stopped eating fresh water fish a few years back alomg with inland saltwater species when I had an experience. I was rinsing a fillet off and watched the huge amount of oils that floated to the top of the sink. Nasty and scary, why do you think they have boil water orders down here ? Human waste is dumped right into the area canals along with the above toxins, I'll pass. People use canals and lakes as dumping grounds for hazardous toxins that they can't legally dispose of at area dumps die to pollution laws. They get around costly disposal fees by dumping them in area waterways.

The water clarity has changed in South Florida in my lifetime. Decades ago you could see the bottom and the water looked clear. The bass and bream had white fillets and no cancerous growths on them. Now the water is dirty with crud floating on top and the fish have brownish fillets. I have found black lumps in the fish fillets that are not worms that I never saw in hundreds of fish I filleted years ago.

i have no idea where ur fishing but the lakes i fish at are clean so are" some canals" and the fillets of the fish i catch are as white as snow.... but its true wat u said about the nasty stuff but all u gotta do is look and u can find clean places to freshwater fish...

JDL · Post by **JDL** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:47 am

cantseeme47 wrote: i have no idea where ur fishing but the lakes i fish at are clean so are" some canals" and the fillets of the fish i catch are as white as snow.... but its true wat u said about the nasty stuff but all u gotta do is look and u can find clean places to freshwater fish...

Be careful. Clarity is not always an indication that the waters are free of chemical pollutants and "clean".

Bluefish in ny · Post by **Bluefish in ny** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:21 pm

Be careful. Clarity is not always an indication that the waters are free of chemical pollutants and "clean".

The way I put it to others is this... if you plant an apple tree on the side of a busy/congested road... You plant the tree as a young tree... maybe 1 foot tall.. for years and years... daily, dogs piss on it, people spit on it, dogs crap on it, pesticides run into its roots, people dump their used oil from oil changes on the lawn near the tree... finally it has apples all over it. Are you going to eat the apples?

Dekegill2 · Post by **Dekegill2** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:39 pm

JDL wrote:
cantseeme47 wrote: i have no idea where ur fishing but the lakes i fish at are clean so are" some canals" and the fillets of the fish i catch are as white as snow.... but its true wat u said about the nasty stuff but all u gotta do is look and u can find clean places to freshwater fish...
Be careful. Clarity is not always an indication that the waters are free of chemical pollutants and "clean".

YEah, have you ever drank pool water :puke:

Itch'n4Fish'n · Post by **Itch'n4Fish'n** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:30 pm

The way I see it, we all gotta die one day might as well choose what you gonna die from, if i die from eating a peacock bass "I'm dying Happy"

Anyways I've seen people loose all the hair from eating a cuda (saltwater

)with ciguatera. Not to mention that tha cuban hole in miami is there because the black water is released there.

Patrick999 · Post by **Patrick999** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:05 pm

Back in the 80s, I used to take shellcracker, bluegill, tilapia from the local waters as a kid. Even then, I probably did damage to myself.

Wouldn't eat fish from our local canals and lakes these days. Even the lakes that look clear and "clean" aren't.

Anyway, why not leave the fish around to enjoy catching them. That's the reason why the fishing isn't as good as it once was.....too many people keeping too many fish over the years.

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