Going on a lion hunt, but I'm not afraid!

[muffywrx]

Neat! I didn't even know much about lionfish, I thought they were rarer than that, in the sense of being invasive anyway.

 

[JD7.62]

These guys are even established up here on the panhandle.

 

[spotfin]

Nice work.

 

[likestofish]

These guys are even established up here on the panhandle.

They are in the panhandle now?

 

[cichlid fiend]

Kinda cool, how did they taste. Was it mild or fishy ?

 

[pshtex]

Went for a little dive yesterday as part of our "Labour Day" holiday activities. Sank a marker buoy for the local Marine Park and had a little extra air to do some lionfish culling. Here's about 40 minutes work. Biggest two are about 11.5 or 12" long. That's a size 12 Haviana in the foreground for scale. We missed two >14"ers as air was getting low.

So last night and this AM the cat(fish) and I went through what the web suggests is maybe $1000-1500 bucks worth in a Vancouver pet shop...

And with a cup 'O Blue Mountain, for a breakfast that's.... priceless.

spear fishing sounds fun plus they seem really tasty which is a good bonus

 

[Gruntking]

Kinda cool, how did they taste. Was it mild or fishy ?

Like pink snappa!

 

[LBathory]

wow, didn't know you could eat them.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Awesome job! Glad to hear you can eat them too.