Was it Red Tide or something else?
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Was it Red Tide or something else?
I've been reading the thread on Red Tide and I have a follow-up question .
Had a friend come up to me at Church yesterday and ask me a question.
He likes to fish the close in Grouper spots and was out Friday. The location was somewhere between the Saint Marks and Wakulla reefs. He caught a 20 inch grouper that had a very strong nasty smell to the fish when it came out of the water. This man spent significant time as a homicide detective and he said it was just like the smell of a badly decomposed human body He said it was actually tough to get close enough to the fish to remove it and release it. He did't seen any dead fish and that was the only one he caught that had the horrible smell to it. Has anyone else ever experienced this or caught fish in an area known to have the Red Tide and is this indicative of what you would expect?
Had a friend come up to me at Church yesterday and ask me a question.
He likes to fish the close in Grouper spots and was out Friday. The location was somewhere between the Saint Marks and Wakulla reefs. He caught a 20 inch grouper that had a very strong nasty smell to the fish when it came out of the water. This man spent significant time as a homicide detective and he said it was just like the smell of a badly decomposed human body He said it was actually tough to get close enough to the fish to remove it and release it. He did't seen any dead fish and that was the only one he caught that had the horrible smell to it. Has anyone else ever experienced this or caught fish in an area known to have the Red Tide and is this indicative of what you would expect?
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I know next to nothing about fishing (learning slowly), but I caught a croaker at Bald Point that nearly made me gag when I was getting it off the hook. Wasn't really a fishy smell, just really sharp and putrid. I've caught plenty other fish off the dock there, and it's the only one to have had that sort of odor about it.
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Cook 'em and eat 'em. All fish have parasites. As long as they don't smell eat 'em.GAJOEY wrote:I have seen several red grouper with little worms in them,kind of in the thickest part of the fillet ..Is that normal? Also bought some flounder with the same little worms in them.I could not bring myself to eat them although they would prolly be ok.Haven't noticed a smell tho
WHOSE FISH IS IT?