Which fish are good for eating, and which do you never eat?

[scott__henning]

Top eating:
King George whiting
Flathead (better tasting the further out to sea)
Snapper
Kingfish
Calamari
Gummy shark (infact most sharks under 5ft)
Red rock cod


Meh:
Rays
Banjos
Most other reef fish (there are exceptions)
Trevalley
Slimies


But freshly caught barramundi will beat anything IMO

[barra mick]

Flathead, trout from good water,nanigy, mangrove jack....and off course fresh gummy

[Russ]

Fresh or salt??
Can u fillet a fish? If not maybe practice catch and release.. 
I wouldn't try eating a blowfish, yakka, carp, gudgeon, blackfish, goldfish there's more I'm sure but that's initial thought

Fished the streams and creeks of the Dandenong Ranges and Yarra Valley for many years. I've found Blackfish to be a magnificent eating fish. Delicate white flesh, best cooked whole - baked or gently grilled. Each to their own though.

Cheers.

[CremeDeLaCreme]

Top eating:
King George whiting
Flathead (better tasting the further out to sea)
Snapper
Kingfish
Calamari
Gummy shark (infact most sharks under 5ft)
Red rock cod


Meh:
Rays
Banjos
Most other reef fish (there are exceptions)
Trevalley
Slimies


But freshly caught barramundi will beat anything IMO

Silver Trevally sashimi is up there with the best

[CarlG]

King ting, flathead, snapper, gummy, the best one is John Dory, but don't really see them down here. Silver trevally is good if you bleed it and eat it the same day..
Everything else pretty much goes back, 'cept for the salmon, which the dogs really enjoy.

[barra mick]

Top eating:
King George whiting
Flathead (better tasting the further out to sea)
Snapper
Kingfish
Calamari
Gummy shark (infact most sharks under 5ft)
Red rock cod


Meh:
Rays
Banjos
Most other reef fish (there are exceptions)
Trevalley
Slimies


But freshly caught barramundi will beat anything IMO

Silver Trevally sashimi is up there with the best

Fresh mangrove jack sit right next to barra

[cheaterparts]

Of cause the std fair of KGW - Flathead and Gummy are hard to go past but locally I would say Gurnard / Scorpion Cod are damm good eating and most would put them back
They are a little dangerous to handle with some really nasty spikes but the meat is Very good

I normaly keep them and they are one fish that gets a lot of respect handling them of a kayak
Ling are another good eating local fish

But for the life of me I can't see why people go crazy over snapper

[matt1991]

Snapper is great....stuff it with butter, onion, garlic and a heap of different heaps and wrap it in a couple of layers of foil. I then make a home made wood oven in the back yard with bricks and make a fire. Next step wait for the fire to burn down until charcoal is just chuck the fish in and using roofing tiles as a lid. Rotate the fish once after 20 min and it comes out AMAZING! I find cooking anything with a proper wood fire turns out great.

[4liters]

Snapper is great....stuff it with butter, onion, garlic and a heap of different heaps and wrap it in a couple of layers of foil. I then make a home made wood oven in the back yard with bricks and make a fire. Next step wait for the fire to burn down until charcoal is just chuck the fish in and using roofing tiles as a lid. Rotate the fish once after 20 min and it comes out AMAZING! I find cooking anything with a proper wood fire turns out great.

The fact that it has to be smothered in herbs, spices and butter, then fumigated with wood smoke kinda proves Cheater's point imo... You could make anything taste decent with that kind of treatment.

[cheaterparts]

Snapper is great....stuff it with butter, onion, garlic and a heap of different heaps and wrap it in a couple of layers of foil.

Yes thats my point if you need to flavour a fish to eat it , catch better tasting fish --

You could make anything taste decent with that kind of treatment.

Might as well eat carp if you are going to waste garlic and herbs to bring a fish up to an eatable state