Blowfish

tey started to come in good last fall, hope for another repeat this year, :p:) yum, yum

Amazed at how many people look at you like you are crazy when you mention eating them. My family goes nuts when I make them. I can get my kids to do just about any chore if I tell them I will make blowfish for dinner...

Wonderful eating fish!

I’d kill for a bucketload

rumor has it the tiny bites that are taking my curly tails are blowfish. I don't use bait or I probably would have hooked whatever it is by now. everyone says its porgies but I have not caught one off Matzahpizza since 1984.

Caught a few in the LIS this year. Who woulda thought. Lol

Alright I need someone to educate me. I thought blowfish were toxic and you cant eat them but you can eat puffer fish ie Mrs. Puff from Spongebob square pants I can eat. I have caught a few in Jones inlet recently
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Good Eating

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the head is toxic. slit the skin all around behind it and pull it off like a tight glove, split the filets off. De-lish ! But I would be throwing back the one in the guy's palm.

Someone just told me there catching them at most of the docks,not sure but I think they like to be near structures.

Im preety sure the northern puffers we catch up here are not toxic any part of them.Id be dead by now .every now and then someone catches a smooth puffer up here and those have a toxic liver and gall bladder they look totally different.Used to skin them for a commercial potter back in the day literally tons of them aside from having very faint fingerprints no poisoning problems

Caught them fairly regularly back in the 70’s while Flounder fishing with blood worms while they were affordable. Cheaper to buy Flounder in the market nowadays.

chicken legs caught them pretty good blackfishing last fall

"Back in the day" you could catch them on anything, including pieces of bubble gum. They were more prevalent than Sea Robins are now

My understanding is that it is the Japanese pufferfish that have the toxic element to them (liver?) and if you didn't clean them right, you were ****ed.