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It's called Hoodwinker Sunfish, it can grow up to 2 tons. ( Hey, I got the picture to finally work! Ta Da!
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Can you eat them? I don't want to see people killing things just for fun. It makes me crazy.
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Yes you can eat them. Sunfish get huge, I saw several in the 1000lb range when I was diving of the coast of cali back mid 80's
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It must have died and washed ashore, depending on codition, fish steaks or chum or some combination thereof.
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(07-25-2017, 08:05 PM)Duchess Wrote:
Can you eat them? I don't want to see people killing things just for fun. It makes me crazy.
Opah is a species of sunfish. They're delicious.
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I don't think I would eat anything that just washed up though.
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...be like eating road kill.
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(07-26-2017, 01:10 PM)Maggot Wrote: I don't think I would eat anything that just washed up though.
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They have roadkill auctions here in the spring. They take them out of the freezer and auction them off.
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Dipped in a little flour and breadcrumbs can work wonders!
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