How to Cook a Kingfish

[Guest BigHam]

Anybody know how to prepare and or cook a King? I've tried with no luck! We always throw em back.

[tvc184]

Cook up a big batch of french fried and then get a big bowl of potato salad or cole slaw.

They get one of those big cajun cookers and get about a gallon of oil real hot, maybe 350-400 degrees. Peanut oil works the best. Cut the mackerel into 1/4" by 2" strips and salt and pepper it real well on both sides. The roll it in flour,, not corn meal, just flour.

Toss the strips into the hot grease for a short time, until they float. Then remove them and drain well. Then throw away the mackerel because it will not be edible but eat the fries and salad/slaw so the whole day won't be a waste.

[tvc184]

Actually I have eat it cooked in a smoker and it was fairly decent.

I have also baked it in steaks with some type of cajun rub on it and then basted in lemon and butter. Maybe the key is to get enough other flavors on it (like deer steaks) to make it good enough to eat.

Mackerel has to be really fresh and iced down quickly. It tastes kind of like fresh tuna but a lot stronger. I have eaten some of the mackerel that I have caught and would eat some again but I surely would not pay for it or take it from someone else. It just has to be so fresh and then that makes it marginally edible.

I sure wouldn't cut it into fillets and fry it like bass, specks, crappy, etc.

[gringo]

Then throw away the mackerel because it will not be edible but eat the fries and salad/slaw so the whole day won't be a waste.  -  Good point!

get enough other flavors on it (like deer steaks)  -  Oh here we go again!

It just has to be so fresh and then that makes it marginally edible.  - Agreed!

[Guest BigHam]

I think I'll continue to " not keep em " like I've done for 20 years since I don't care for potato salad or cole slaw. 

[tvc184]

I think I'll continue to " not keep em " like I've done for 20 years since I don't care for potato salad or cole slaw. 

Steamed broccoli?

[PNG Proud]

I don't keep them either.  HOWEVER, I'm told that the best way is to cut them into balls (roll the meat out), then season and fry like reg. fish.

I like Spanish Mac. o.k., but never cared too much for Kings.    LOVE to catch them tho.

[tvc184]

I don't keep them either.   HOWEVER, I'm told that the best way is to cut them into balls (roll the meat out), then season and fry like reg. fish.

I like Spanish Mac. o.k., but never cared too much for Kings.    LOVE to catch them tho.

Any fish that hits your bait at 50+ mph is a fun fish on light line. Spanish are a blast to catch on light spinning reels.

[gringo]

Any fish that hits your bait at 50+ mph is a fun fish on light line. Spanish are a blast to catch on light spinning reels.

Just dont try to stop the spool with your thumb!

[tvc184]

Any fish that hits your bait at 50+ mph is a fun fish on light line. Spanish are a blast to catch on light spinning reels.

Just dont try to stop the spool with your thumb!

The 1 second way to a blister.

On some of my lighter weight trolling/pier reels like a Penn 209, I used to sew a leather tab onto the reel so I could thumb the spool.

[PNG Proud]

tvc, we seriously need to hook up this Summer for an offshore trip or 2!

[tvc184]

tvc, we seriously need to hook up this Summer for an offshore trip or 2!

You have a boat?

I can swim pretty good but not with tackle.

[PNG Proud]

Oh yeah,  I gotta boat!  If I new how to ad a pic on here I'd send one.

Does grilled snapper FRESH out of the Gulf sound intreging???

[tvc184]

Oh yeah,  I gotta boat!  If I new how to ad a pic on here I'd send one.

Does grilled snapper FRESH out of the Gulf sound intreging???

Go to photobucket.com

Sign up for an account.. it is free and takes a minute or so.

Then you can upload pics and/or videos to your personal website. Just click on the area under the pic where it says "IMG Code". That will automatically copy the correct information (the url assigned to that pic) for that picture. Then just paste it in your message either in a post or a PM.

[PNG Proud]

Did it work???

[tvc184]

You bet it did. Very good.

[PNG Proud]

Man, that's a big picture!

[tvc184]

Man, that's a big picture!

You just need to resize it.. like this.....

[PNG Proud]

And how did you do dat?????

[tvc184]

Nice boat. I bet the gasoline in that rig would cost me a two week paycheck.

[tvc184]

And how did you do dat?????

I resized the picture with another program. I used Microsoft Digital Image. Most other photo software will do it. There are lots of them out there.

[PNG Proud]

Nah, not when you split it up between 4-5 guys.  Bait, gas & ice usually run us about $50 a trip.

Pretty cheap for an offshore trip really.

[tvc184]

Nah, not when you split it up between 4-5 guys.  Bait, gas & ice usually run us about $50 a trip.

Pretty cheap for an offshore trip really.

Not bad. Barf bags extra?

Actually I have gone offshore in some very small and very big boats and it never bothers me. I went to the short rigs once (when I was young and stupid/invincible) in my 14 foot flatbottom with my 25 Evinrude outboard.

[PNG Proud]

Not bad. Barf bags extra?

Actually I have gone offshore in some very small and very big boats and it never bothers me. I went to the short rigs once (when I was young and stupid/invincible) in my 14 foot flatbottom with my 25 Evinrude outboard.

Yep, done that too!  Actuall, I still go when it's flat calm.  I put my boat in the very middle of the rig and catch trout from UNDER the rig.....in the shade too!