Are banjo shark edible ?

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Re: Are banjo shark edible ?

Post by Toady king » Sun Apr 02, 2017 7:41 pm

barra mick wrote:
Toady king wrote:Is banjo shark good eating? I always hear that they taste bad, but no one has actually eaten them. Im playing on trying one next time I catch one.
Forum member nude up has a recipe for banjo shark soup

He can really catch some big ones.
Yeah they can get huge I caught one that was about 1.5m head to tail and about half a meter wide

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Re: Are banjo shark edible ?

Post by CarlG » Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:18 pm

re-tyred wrote:All sharks and rays are "edible" and taste very similar. However there isn't much meat on Bango's and the tough skin makes them a pain to skin.
Most of the "lower quality" sharks are not processed in the commercial industry as they have high shrinkage when cooked. If you get a piece of flake at a fish and chip shop and the meat rattles around inside the batter, then you know they are using low quality shark not gummy.
In my opinion stick to eating, gummy, swordshark, mako, Bronzies, eagle rays, large skate. The rest are rubbish. Even deep water dog shark shrink like hell.
As per usual, quality, informed post from this bloke. :thumbsup:

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Re: Are banjo shark edible ?

Post by barwonboy » Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:24 pm

I have cooked one before and I can tell you it's definitely not worth killing the fish

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Re: Are banjo shark edible ?

Post by Toady king » Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:26 pm

barwonboy wrote:I have cooked one before and I can tell you it's definitely not worth killing the fish
don't plan to actually, I think I had too many drinks when I posted this haha

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Re: Are banjo shark edible ?

Post by crumpet_avenger » Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:44 pm

Toady king wrote:
barwonboy wrote:I have cooked one before and I can tell you it's definitely not worth killing the fish
don't plan to actually, I think I had too many drinks when I posted this haha
You are missen out mate. Gotta try everyfen once. Especially banjoes.
Yummmmmeeeeeee

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Re: Are banjo shark edible ?

Post by Toady king » Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:49 pm

crumpet_avenger wrote:
Toady king wrote:
barwonboy wrote:I have cooked one before and I can tell you it's definitely not worth killing the fish
don't plan to actually, I think I had too many drinks when I posted this haha
You are missen out mate. Gotta try everyfen once. Especially banjoes.
Yummmmmeeeeeee
I'll stick some gummy shark instead :rofl:

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Re: Are banjo shark edible ?

Post by eddyt » Thu Jun 22, 2017 12:57 pm

Just curious how do you clean them? Just take off the tail and skin it? Ive caught some monsters before but never tried eating any. Tempted to try now

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Re: Are banjo shark edible ?

Post by azkay » Thu Jun 22, 2017 1:17 pm

There's a lot more better/easier to clean fish to eat, i personally wouldn't bother..
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Re: Are banjo shark edible ?

Post by hornet » Thu Jun 22, 2017 2:17 pm

eddyt wrote:Just curious how do you clean them? Just take off the tail and skin it? Ive caught some monsters before but never tried eating any. Tempted to try now
I cleaned one once to try out, I tried skinning it with out much luck, I ended up boiling a big pot of water and dropping the bits of fish in there for about two or three minutes each, the skin virtually fell off ! trouble was the flesh was half cooked by then so it only needed 1 to 2 minutes in the fry pan to finish it off. Definitely won't be cooking another one ! just release them they keep the sea floor clean, fish vacs ..
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Re: Are banjo shark edible ?

Post by Kimtown » Thu Jul 06, 2017 8:40 pm

People actually eat rays and skates?

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