Backyard Aquaponics
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Hi Helo

Do you know what sort of fish they were ? Some sort of tuna ?

No, those are some trash fish not any good to eat. Very bloody. Not sure of the proper name, but we call them Chubs and they get to about 6 lbs.

Just found this, they are called stripped sea chub. The info on that site is not accurate, we are in 200 feet of water and they say they don't reach 2 lbs. These get bigger than that.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=off ... 94&first=1

But also a nice big barracuda....

Yeah, those are some stinky fish. I sure hate them, all they are good for is eating half the fish I catch.

Barracuda is not a bad fish to eat if you know how to filet them. Lots of bone.
Also they are good to make fish stocks out of.

They are the fastest fish I have ever seen. I believe they can go at 70MPH for a strick. And yes, we have lost some good Mahie Mahie to them.

http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes ... index.html

No way, I would even try them unless I was starving. Heck they stink so bad, I can't even stand to have them on the deck. I can smell them from across the platform. Only fish I care to eat out here are the snapper, and groupers, and sometimes I will keep the cobia (Ling). The rest I won't even mess with.

You are correct, they are very fishy due to the amount of oil they have in them.
Some people can not eat them due to fishy smell.

I do like Wahoo a lot better. And they are the one that swim very fast. Baracuda does not swim that fast.

Cobia is a very good eating fish. The biggest Cobia cut in NC was 116 lb. 8 oz.

My brother is a charter boat captian out of Cocodrie, La. I do lots of fishing with him, biggest cobia he caught was 99lbs. My favorite fish are red snapper, flounder, grouper, speckled trout, red fish and cobia in that order.

How about tuna? During November time frame, tuna fishing is very good there. Have plans to make it there this Thanks Giving for Tuna fishing. NC State is one of the best places for salt water fishing, check these records:
http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/mf/north-c ... er-records

Only tried real tuna once and I didn't like it. To me it was like salmon, and I hate salmon. Now tuna in a can I love. I know that sounds crazy even to me. We don't get many tuna around the platform, but very large grouper are here all the time.

How do you get the fish all the way up there? Do you have a way to get to water level? Or you use heavy duty line?

I assume you get down about 180 ft to get them.
Here groupers are about 10 to 30 ft from the botton where ever there is a ship recks, or where NCDNR has dropped old plains or other stuff. They usually hang around those places.
I have heard that fish gathers around the oil rigs legs, so you got it made.

When fishing for smaller snapper I just use a regular fishing line with 100lb test braided line and reel them all the way up to the deck below the one in the video. If the fish is to big we use the crane on the platform to lower a basket down. Or when fishing for bigger fish I use a hand line made from 1/4 rope. We also have a gaff (spelling) that we made that lowers down on another rope and you use it like a grapling hook.

Water here is 200 feet, so I go all the way down and just come a foot or two off the bottom, yes the legs of the platform are home to lots of fish.

Next time try to get the video of winching the fish up. Would be fun to watch.
I assume you do not eat shark either. If one knows how to cook them, they are good eating.

These are my favorits!

I assume your brother-in-law knows this place.

I do eat shark, not a favorite, but okay.

I usually fish by myself, everyone else out here actually has to work. So video would be hard to shoot.

No that looks like Venice Louisiana. My brother worked at a lot of the marinas on Cocodrie. Coco Marina, topwate charter, sportmans paradise. Right now he only does it on the side, the oil spill forced him to get a full time job, and he never went back full time.