coalie! yum!

**skipperboy** · 22-02-2007, 13:42

everybody told me coalies where uneatable. last trip with the mv KAREN in scrabster I was stuborn and took a few filets home. decided on asian fishcookies. DELICIOUS!!!!

500g of fishfilet puree
3 spoons of spicy red curry paste
salt pepper garlic onion
some flour

and fry in oil

to be repeated!!!!

jan

**freddy** · 05-03-2007, 12:00

I thought Coalfish is the same as Saithe which is sold in fish and chip shops so it must be ok to eat??

**lucky** · 05-03-2007, 17:38

I've used coalfish in fish curry which is fine.

**bertie** · 05-03-2007, 18:18

Freddy - let me know where that chip shop is. Want to make sure I never go there. Coallies are for catching when there is nothing else about. Big ones fight well but - none of them taste good. My advice - PUT THEM BACK

codsadream · 07-03-2007, 12:05

Originally Posted by bertie

Freddy - let me know where that chip shop is. Want to make sure I never go there. Coallies are for catching when there is nothing else about. Big ones fight well but - none of them taste good. My advice - PUT THEM BACK

local fish shop in my city sells coallies and its very popular can`t be bad if it sells

TomBettle · 07-03-2007, 16:59

Coalies are Saithe and have a slightly tastier meat than Pollack.

It is delicious cooked in anyway you would Pollack, my favourite being lightly hot smoked and then put in kedgeree. Absolutely lovely.

Not as good as Cod or Haddock, but a bloody good second best.

**Bonjour** · 08-03-2007, 19:00

Originally Posted by TomBettle

Coalies are Saithe and have a slightly tastier meat than Pollack.

It is delicious cooked in anyway you would Pollack, my favourite being lightly hot smoked and then put in kedgeree. Absolutely lovely.

Not as good as Cod or Haddock, but a bloody good second best.

Agreed, Coalfish is tastier than pollack but not as good as cod. Long time since we had any catches of them here though.

TomBettle · 09-03-2007, 10:15

Had a small one (5 or 6lb just north of the Hurds Deeps last year.

The very next week we had another identical one off the same wreck.
The only two I have ever seen caught

We weren't fishing off Alderney, but far closer to it than we were Weymouth.

Which island are you on Bonjour?

**Bonjour** · 09-03-2007, 21:07

I'm in Alderney. Last time we had catches of coalfish from the shore was about fifteen years ago when we had a coldish winter and water temps were pretty low. Coincidentally we had a run of dabs and pin whiting that year too, neither of which are usually caught here. Almost all the coalies were in the 2-3lb bracket.