Whiting or Wrasse?

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Re: Whiting or Wrasse?

Post by frozenpod » Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:09 am

Wrasse better on the plate than whiting?

That isn't something you hear everyday its is good we are all different.

I know a bloke who really likes rock cod and yakkas.

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Re: Whiting or Wrasse?

Post by scott__henning » Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:43 am

frozenpod wrote:I know a bloke who really likes rock cod and yakkas.
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Re: Whiting or Wrasse?

Post by frozenpod » Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:47 pm

Yep and I was dumb enough to follow his advice and try a yakka.

Good bait but horrible on the plate.

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Re: Whiting or Wrasse?

Post by poodoo » Wed Nov 21, 2012 1:37 pm

frozenpod wrote:Yep and I was dumb enough to follow his advice and try a yakka.

Good bait but horrible on the plate.
I've fallen for that one as well...... :Blah:

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Re: Whiting or Wrasse?

Post by Linc » Thu Nov 22, 2012 6:39 am

filletted and eaten fresh grass whiting are a nice table fish, anyone who says otherwise has either tried them whole, not eaten it fresh or not cut the darker flesh from around the belly off. Next time you catch a larger one fillet it and cook it up in a bit of flour in some butter in the pan and you'd be surprised! - Still nothing like KGW though.

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Re: Whiting or Wrasse?

Post by frozenpod » Thu Nov 22, 2012 12:22 pm

I eatten them within a couple of hrs after being caught and I thought they were pretty poor.

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Re: Whiting or Wrasse?

Post by Breamster » Thu Nov 22, 2012 12:51 pm

Even the under rated "Mullet" tastes much better than the "Grassy".

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Re: Whiting or Wrasse?

Post by ecofreak » Tue Dec 11, 2012 5:14 am

You are right with both your questions Whiting or Wrasse, although called a Grass whiting it is a Wrasse, looks like a whiting but is a member of the Wrasse or Cale family (Haletta semifasciata) and belongs to a group of fishes known as Odacidae, this one is a male while the plain brown colored one's of the same shape are the females.

Whiting are perchiforms that belong to the Sillaginodes family and the badly named grass whiting does not belong to this family.

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Re: Whiting or Wrasse?

Post by poodoo » Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:53 pm

ecofreak wrote:You are right with both your questions Whiting or Wrasse, although called a Grass whiting it is a Wrasse, looks like a whiting but is a member of the Wrasse or Cale family (Haletta semifasciata) and belongs to a group of fishes known as Odacidae, this one is a male while the plain brown colored one's of the same shape are the females.

Whiting are perchiforms that belong to the Sillaginodes family and the badly named grass whiting does not belong to this family.

Looks can be decieving!
Their flesh is definitely like a wrasse.....

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