I have read a lot about eating sharks and there are so many conflicting stories out there about how to clean them so it doesn’t taste like you are eating a urine soaked piece of meat. I always catch a few sharks every year does anyone have any advice on cleaning and cooking them or should I just keep enjoying the fight then releasing them?
Use the search function and you will find tons of information on releasing, eating, and pre-prep before eating sharks.
Biggest thing I know to tell you is make sure it is a legal catch then gut em while still alive wash em good in the water and put on ice immediately.
After that it gets chunked put in water for a little soak then drained, mixed with some egg, a nice coat of house of autry, then a hot oil bath.
Haven’t ever been a huge fan. But I will make an exception for ceviche!
Roofer,
- field dress immed. on board or beach. Keep a deer skinning knife onboard,
- Flush very well with sea water.
- Fillet immed. remove all redline.
- Store chunks in gallon “Zip Locks” FZR. with sea water or 1 cup kosher salt dissolved into 1 gl. h2o ratio. Seal air out of bags. Keep in cooler on ice. If you’re done or near done for the day, just make the brine in your cooler, save the bags and drink salty beer.
- At home, wash well and store in fzr. bags with 1/2 potent salt brine, air tight for freezing.
- Slow thaw in frig. Wash well drain well. Marinade in buttermilk for 24 hrs. in sealed fzr. bag.
- Rinse and drain. Cook your recipe with light salt if any. My favorite is to hot grill a back loin chunk about 2 in. thick til near black on outside and just done on inside, topped with ranch dressing and hot sauce.
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3. Fillet immed. remove all redline
It’s against the law to fillet it on the boat. Fish must be landed whole. OK to gut them, but that’s all.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
Oops,we keep the carcass, drug behind boat all the way home. Never had a problem with DNR. And Donate such to local interest for crab bait. Lot more details if you gentlemanly, ASK. We’re not out in lala land. But we excuse the implication from the ranking member. Try a dated video. All DNR’s like em’ to clear up disputed issues and appreciate your conservation efforts.
“Poke holes in my boat and you get sunk”
Hey Cracker, Ask an officer in the Santee About enforcing the moratorium on stripe fishing months.
“Excuse me sir, What are you fishing for?” DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
Well sir, the herring and kale hook are for blue catfish.
“OK sir, sorry to waste you time.”
Read your laws and live life for real and you’ll find 99% of DNR’s won’t bother you in gray areas as long as you are within the technical and ethical boundaries. I’ve had the “Whole” discussion.
The new regs. contain language that I was partially responsible for regarding bluebacks. Compare last issue and get back with me. Let’s see your legal prowess.
Cracker, didn’t include game laws into recipies. Maybe should have for rookies. Do you homework.
" All sharks must be landed with fins, tail, and head naturally attached." Says nothing of fillets!!!
Which is why we don’t cut off the tail to bleed the fish. If you did tail the fish and kept the tail with a dated video and yer meat added up to the video, You’d never loose in front of a magistrate, which is why the officer wouldn’t push the issue, even if he didn’t like you…
Excuse me, but I’m no rookie and I do know the game laws. Did you not say this…?
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1. field dress immed. on board or beach. Keep a deer skinning knife onboard, 2. Flush very well with sea water. 3. Fillet immed. remove all redline. 4. Store chunks in gallon "Zip Locks" FZR. with sea water or 1 cup kosher salt dissolved into 1 gl. h2o ratio. Seal air out of bags. Keep in cooler on ice. If you're done or near done for the day, just make the brine in your cooler,
Does that not suggest that you fillet them on the boat, or is my reading comprehension not working:question:
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
All that trouble for shark meat, I might just give up fishing… Plenty of better stuff out there that is just as easy to catch.
gosh, trying to be decent and all the new posters seem to get a bit disgruntled.
Cracker, looks like you may have hit a nerve with dadgum.
Not sure if I’ll even be able to sleep tonight, Fred
I’d have to be really hungry and a really poor fisherman, to even consider eating a shark. Almost anything is better than that. But what does a rookie know?
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
That’s what I wrote Cracker.
In over fifty years on the water and in the field, I’ve never been cited for any violation in our fine state. Takes more than pot shots to get my nerve.
Most recent DNR check was 5/28/2014 with a 6.5 b-tip’ carcass cut in half & strapped to transom. Officer was amazed at the hillbilly ingenuity, and didn’t even inspect the meat. With a wheelchair patient on board with me on my 19’ skiff, He Said, Quote “Good thinking”.
Most, I mean 99% of DNR’s, really are all for squared away fisherman. They see some of the most stupid behavior imaginable, that when they do check the true caretakers, it’s like a coffee break to them. And they won’t delve into minor multi- interpretable issues.
Like the b-back herring issue that I co- authored.
It’s possible that I misinterpreted what you meant. If so, my apology!
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Most, I mean 99% of DNR's, really are all for squared away fisherman.
Agree completely.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
Bonnet Head Sharks and Black Tip Sharks are the species to keep to put on the table. Throw the others back.
“I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of the general public.”
~my dad
Equipment:
190cc Sea Pro w/130 Johnson
1- 20 year old (boy of leisure)
1 - 17 year old (fishing maniac)
1 - wife (The Warden)
ECFC
To any who want to do this, be educated #1. Read your r&r’s and keep them with you. Don’t jump up in the boat and challenge a DNR officer on issue of regs. Be calm and give them your rationale, provided you have education behind your actions.
As our R&R’s have a lot of holes in them, DNR’s are given a lot of discretionary room to evaluate situations. If all is well on a 15 pt. check and the math adds up on yer’ meat, No Problem!
As previously written: From R&R S.C. “All sharks must be landed with fins, head and tail. Naturally attached.”
It say’s nothing of meat. The identifying features are the head ,fin, and tail. If you fillet out the fish proper, you’ll leave a fine, “all attached” specimen for inspection. The skinning knife really helps with a strong line around fin shrouds.
On a smaller boat with a larger shark, I’ll often chop it in half with machete’, bind it and tie it off to a stern cleat as to prevent too much drag, pulling it whole.
Concerning the transportation of meat, there’s gray areas for camping, houseboats, bluewater vessels, and even overnite mooring “sleeping in a boat as camp”.
To LAND a fish is not always possible before cleaning process. DNR’S are trained to use common sense in evaluating situations.
Just don’t get way out of line in the gray. Possession limits are firm, but the (per day) and (volume in possession) factors have to be looked at case by case, by DNR.
No problem. We’re for real.
mako is where its at…
“mr keys”
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Originally posted by northchuckymako is where its at…
“mr keys”
Even Cracker would have to agree with this if he had any!!! I’d take Mako over wahoo or dolphin. Been 15 years since I had any. I dare say more people have been seriously injured by Mako taken into a boat than any other fish. 
One day before I die, I’d like to invite Cracker to a fish fry and give him the blindfold taste test of several varieties of fishes. then have a cold adult beverage with him. one piece would be bowfin bass… (mudfish:smiley:
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I confess I’ve never eaten mako, never even caught one. I’ll try anything once 
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper