Are inshore Pollock edible? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Notaro · 07-05-2003, 12:05 PM

I caught five pollocks and all of them weight 5 lbs together. So any cooking methods or feedbacks on that?

DaveS · 07-05-2003, 12:10 PM

Dont eat em! They might have aquapropoxigooganitis, and that can be fatal if ya aint careful dood.

Fly Rod · 07-05-2003, 01:03 PM

Some people do eat them. I wouldn't. Growing up as a kid and coming from a commercial fishing family we would only eat haddock, sole ,salt water cat fish, halibut and flounder. We never ate cod either it was always considered a trash fish.

Allot of your fast food chains use pollock for there fish sandwiches. Andthe English fish & chips were all pollock. Today some places sell you skate wings as scallops.

Notaro · 07-05-2003, 01:04 PM

What?! Seriously? Then what am I going to do with them? How am I going to explain this to my family?

Notaro · 07-05-2003, 01:06 PM

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Originally posted by Fly Rod
. Today some places sell you skate wings as scallops.

Bigcat · 07-05-2003, 03:46 PM

Nothing wrong with eating pollock, sometime they fetch a higher price in the market.

BigBo · 07-05-2003, 04:27 PM

Probably a little mushy. I personnaly don't like them. Use 'em for bait.

Fly Rod · 07-05-2003, 10:17 PM

Today you don't know what you are eating when it comes to fish by-product. A friend of mine that buys fish from around the world for Gorton's of Gloucester buys the cheapest fish going for that company and so does every other company. There is a world demand for fish.

Here is an example. The herring that we use for bait is also packaged and sent to Eypt, and all them middle eastern countries.
Some of that same herring is pickled and sold in your favorite super market.

Notaro · 07-05-2003, 11:33 PM

Yes, it's true and I am aware of that. They are in 14 inches... How do you use a 12 or 14 in. inshore pollock for bait? I caught one and it died right infront of me and the body floated. Should I fillet it or chunk it for a striper? Is a 12 or 14 inches too much for stripers? I saw a big-ass bass chasing them when I dunked my herring chunk to them.

beachwalker · 07-06-2003, 08:44 AM

Notaro,

Heu which one of the Pollocks looks like John ?

Just meesin' with ya'

BigBo · 07-06-2003, 08:38 PM

Notaro, next time you hook one of them little Pollacks, live line it! I've taken some nice bass over the years live lining Pollack.

Notaro · 07-06-2003, 11:42 PM

Alright, I will. It's hard to get them ont eh hook while stripers are looking for it. I nearly nabbed it w/ a whole dead herring. I lived-lined it, but what is the best way to hook a pollock and to make it send out attentions to a BIG-ASS striper? I caught a orange oysterfish or a toadfish with it and it turned into a damn blue, man!

beachwalker,

JohnR · 07-07-2003, 05:41 AM

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Originally posted by Notaro
Alright, I will. It's hard to get them ont eh hook while stripers are looking for it. I nearly nabbed it w/ a whole dead herring. I lived-lined it, but what is the best way to hook a pollock and to make it send out attentions to a BIG-ASS striper? I caught a orange oysterfish or a toadfish with it and it turned into a damn blue, man!

beachwalker,

Terminology update for Notaro - "Live Lined" means the bait on your line is "alive". The best way to hook a pollock would be with a big hook. Punch it thru the upper back and lob it in the water. It will do most of the rest...

redcrbbr · 07-07-2003, 07:09 AM

don't forget to remove the sinker

MikeTLive · 07-07-2003, 08:06 AM

FISH-FRY!!!

As a kid fishing off the town pier in Scituate we used to regularly bring home a couple dozen or so 9-12" pollock.
We would fire up the hibachi, clean all the fish, put fome foil on the grid, add half a stick of butter and fry fry fry until they were all cooked and eaten.

best fish I have ever eaten.

no skinning or filleting.
Just head off, guts out, onto the butter cook till we remember to turn em over and hope they werent falling apart too bad.

toss the boned back onto the coals.

sometimes wewould stack up cinder blocks and use brush for the fire and prop a big cast iron skillet above to cook in.

YUM!!!!!