I bet that was a blast !
Always heard they are pretty good to eat ?
Nice, firm flesh with a good flavor. That's about the only fish I eat lately, 'cuz they're easy to catch in quantity. I skim off the brown part of the filet and it has a much milder flavor. The brown part can be a bit fishy tasting, but then, some folks like that.
When I was in Baghdad, a bunch of us would go fishing every Sunday. About 7 different species of carp lived in the canals and lakes that were everywhere around the Victory Base complex, plus a fish called an Asp. It looked like a cross between a bass and a snook, but the meat was more like a skipjack. The Indonesians/Asian guys that drove a lot of the trucks would honk their horn if they saw us taking a picture with one and beg for it to put in their curry. They'd wrap it up in a newspaper and take off with it, happy as clams. They'd get pissed when we refused to give 'em the big ones... We wanted to catch 'em again, so it was catch and release for the big'uns, but you couldn't pay me to eat one.
