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Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 8 November 2008 21:40:31

Brett Ozanne

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"Hello, Police Emergency."
"HELP, HELP, i need to report a crime!!!"
"What type of crime sir?"
"I've been raped, WRAPED BY WRASSE!!!!!!"

Rolled up at Ocean Reef Marina, bang on 5.40am this morning, a slow procession of mad yakkers followed, and like an army of walking dead we proceeded to rig our mighty vehicles of the sea in preparation of the bountiful plunder.

Unfortunatley it was not to be.

Herb (Old Bloke) on his lovely little Outback, gotta love a man with color coordinated pool noodles on his yak!!

Was a beautiful morning, and all the boys rocked up, set up our yaks and headed out of the marina by 7ish, with a 6 odd kilometer journey ahead of us. Light, if any breeze caressed the rolling swell as we made our way out to the 3 Mile Reef, arriving in just under an hour's travel.

Ian (Beluga) on his X-Factor, note his ingenious camera mount at the front!

We moved around the northern edge of the reef, behind the breakers looking for good ground, which was in abundance. Found a suitable spot, and anchored up to begin the days fishing.

The back of the Bombie, light easterly just blowing the froth of the top!

For the next 2-3 hours we landed an abundance of Wrasse, Ian and Karl landed 2/3 of the Jackson Five (Port Jacksons), and Wrasse, i moved anchor, caught a few WRASSE, moved again, WRASSE, tried a bit further out, oh look, a WRASSE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, its a pattern forming...

Jimmy (Foried Fisho) on his beautifully prepared Revolution, sadly, the flag at half mast is lamenting the passing of another WRASSE!!!!

During this time we were also entertained by a series of monumental hookups, resulting in bust off's and bite-off's!! The jury is still out on the culprits, but i had a few on temporarily, Karl, Colin and Ian all hooked up only to loose the fish. Herb and Jimmy seemed to be BIG FISH magnets, and the sight of Jimmy being dragged toward the 6-8ft breakers, full drag on, 200m of line out and skiing along at 5knots behind some monster unstoppable was an absolute hoot!!! I think they both ran out of terminal tackle to these behemoths of the depths!!!!!!!! We suspect possibly Sambo's, as they certainly knew which way it was to the Bombie, and mercilessly dragged the fisho unlucky enough to hook up toward a foamy demise!!

Jimmy hooked up big time, on his way in for a close examination of BOMBIE TOWN!!!!!!!!!

After a while we drifted north onto broken ground, where we hunted for the elusive KG's, which remain elusively elusive till this very day. In this area we found a few more WRASSE, and after anchoring and berlying up, trying my hand at another mysterious drag killing monster, i hooked another couple of Wrasse for good measure, whilst another 500 WRASSE dive bombed my kayak from a passing jumbo......... (not really, but damn, it felt like it..)

Karl and Colin, discussing the finer points of WRASSE!!

Toward the latter half of midday, we decided we had had enough WRASSE farming and decided to head back into shore, where the Fisheries guys stopped us for a quick survey on the 878276354892765 different types of WRASSE in Perth waters, and i found out to my utter dismay, that one of the billion types of WRASSE that i had caught were actually Breaksea, or Blackbum Cod, and that the 3 out of the 9873598758 WRASSE that i had caught were actually a terrific tasting fish.

Bugger....

All in all a fantastic day! We covered 18km by the time we landed and the Hobie was begging for another 10 before sundown, and a few more WRASSE too.

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 9 November 2008 21:37:06

Gary Wotherspoon

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Great post and pics Brett.
Seems the yak fishing community is growing.
Must be a few nervous wrasse around.

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 9 November 2008 22:23:20

Ashley van Viersen

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Great stuff

Ah if only I was younger and fitter

Ashley

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 10 November 2008 11:54:34

Shane King

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You should be keeping any decent sized Wrasse you catch mate! They are lovely fish to eat. Flesh is a bit soft but if you put them on ice straight away it firms them up. I rate them as high as there cousin Baldchin in the flavour department.

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 10 November 2008 13:13:13

Matt Thompson

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Really?? I've never heard of people eating Wrasse?

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 10 November 2008 13:57:44

Cameron NilssonLinne

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They've been known to magically turn into dhufish if released correctly too!

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 11 November 2008 12:28:57

Matt Thompson

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Yeah - great fresh bait - but on the plate?

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 11 November 2008 13:07:20

Don Tuma

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Matt Thompson
Really?? I've never heard of people eating Wrasse?

I've never heard of people that don't eat wrasse. The eastern states market several species. Most catering supply catalogues offer them as fillets in cartons graded by fillet size. As a chef, my wife has had wrasse on various restaurant menus over the past decade. Top quality pearly flesh with a delicate flavour. Get into 'em!!!!!!

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 11 November 2008 21:02:18

Herb Carman

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Given there are about 20 species of wrasse in the south western waters of WA to talk about eating wrasse is like talking about eating mackrel, slimey through to Spanish. I am sure there would be differing opinions on the edibilty of mackerel based on which of those you sampled. A number of wrasse species get a "fair eating" star rating in "The Marine and Estuarine Fishers of South-western Australia, a field guide for Anglers and Divers" (BTW recommend this book available here:
http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime/shop/marinefish.asp)

while others have no rating. I suggest you try and keep a big one, speciate it and eat it then see if you want to keep the next one you catch.

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 12 November 2008 6:36:28

Don Tuma

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Herb Carman
I suggest you try and keep a big one, speciate it and eat it then see if you want to keep the next one you catch.

Herb, I have been "speciating" wrasse in Australian waters for nigh on 50 years, and eating them as well.

I have selected 32 species of the wrasse family (Labridae) which includes tuskfishes (like your Baldchin Groper) and pigfishes for inclusion in a book entitled "Fil-O-Fish Australia" also available in W.A. from your museum bookshop, some bait & tackle shops and from the Wangler bookshop. The book lists palatability ratings based largely on market and restaurant popularity as well as subjective tasting by various persons.

I agree with the point you make about some degree of variability in the edible qualities of different species of the Labridae family, but my experience has been consistent in that they are mostly a cut above other fishes as table fare. Many are marketed here and some of the pigfishes (same family) are the most expensive fish to buy at the Sydney and Melbourne fish markets. In the live fish trade of Hong Kong, several wrasse species are at the top of the favorite restaurant selections.

Yes, I will be eating more wrasse.

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 12 November 2008 6:53:58

Herb Carman

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I will be keeping the big ones from now on...after all that and blowies are all I usually catch..lol

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 12 November 2008 7:43:21

Michael Hermans

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King Wrasse are good eating, very white meat, and being a fairly large fish you get some nice fillets off them.
Slimy tho

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 12 November 2008 9:05:52

Matt Thompson

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Great - How many dinners have been thrown back! Cheers for the info fellas

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 12 November 2008 12:05:50

Justin Raath

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Could you guys show me a pic of a wrasse? Is this what you call a Parrot fish?

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RE: Wraped By Wrasse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 12 November 2008 14:27:18

Don Tuma

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Parrotfish have their own family (Scaridae). They are easy to separate from wrasse, tuskfish and pigfish (Labridae) because parrotfish have their teeth fused into a beak like a parrot's beak. The Labridae family have separate peg-like teeth.

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