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Just got a pair of lionfish

Darkxerox said:
They were pretty damn tasty too!

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Pretty easy to eat too, not a ton of tiny when fried this way. Tastes like cod, not fishy at all.
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Highly recommend lion fish ceviche!!
Even with tournaments all summer doubtfull will make a dent ugh and you can even spearfish with scuba tanks in the keys !! Sharks,eels, groupers won't readily eat lion fish but once you spear one it's a dinner bell and come in fast for a meal just wish they would eat more of them naturally. Their the only fish I know of that do not move if you spear one literally right next to another you can clean out a whole school of them super easy like picking apples! Some divers are feeding them to sharks in hopes of them learning on their own thus other sharks will follow but not good kinda like hand feeling bears in Yosemite they will associate people as vending machines!
Craving ceviche now!!!
Enjoy your trip!! Beautiful place
 
Darkxerox said:
They were pretty damn tasty too!

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Pretty easy to eat too, not a ton of tiny bones when fried this way. Tastes like cod, not fishy at all.
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Last year I was diving in Belize. The DMs all had trident style spears to get any Lion fish. The nurse sharks in the area love to eat the dead fish even though they don’t hunt them. Consequently by the end of the dive we had 7 or 8 sharks literally bumping into us. Never had that happen before.
 
Coral reefer said:
So the spines don’t bother the sharks if the fish is dead? Why they eat after it’s been speared but not before?
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Sharks are immune or resistant to the venom..but not sure about groupers maybe swallowing them whole with their bucket mouth they don't get poked by the spines. Probably taken thousands of years for predators to adapt eating lion fish in other oceans they just need to get on board here thankfully the lion fish in Hawaii are native and alot smaller then the Florida ones which are more then double the size bigger mouth and bellys !
 
Darkxerox said:
My guess is that they can't flare them out like when they're alive vs. dead.
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Seems like they’d still be very spikey and I’d assume still venomous…
I’ve seen a video of a grouper stalking one before very patiently lining up a good strike from directly underneath the belly to seemingly avoid spines.
 
A few years ago when i went spearfishing for them in the Keys; my DM had managed to stab himself while cleaning a dead one - so it is still possible, for a person at least. I cooked them on the grill, very tasty; but you need the bigger ones if trying to fillet them for meat.
 
BAYMAC said:
ugh, yes. Well over a dozen times. They don't hurt me all that much thankfully.
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Woo that's nice! I was reaching in a bag of fish scraps I was using for bait when I got nailed lol felt like one of those long legged wasp stings finger was numb for two days overall not that bad.
Always wanted a predator tank love those fu Manchu lions!
 
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