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Old 10-23-2009, 02:12 AM
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Default Preparing Porgies

How do most of you guys prepare porgies? Do you fillet them or go with the panfish method of scaling/dressing them and then cooking? Basically, I caught a mess of them today and filleting them was kind of annoying since the fillets seemed pretty small.

I don't fish for porgies that often and when I have, it's been on a party boat. This was out in my personal boat at the Axel Carlson Reef and they were pretty much all over the place. I know the regs say 9-inches, but do you usually set a "personal limit" of sorts? Seems you need to catch a jumbo one to get a nice fillet out of it.
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Old 10-23-2009, 09:40 AM
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Default Re: Preparing Porgies

This may sound kind of obvious, but honestly if a porgy looks small enough to fit in a frying pan (but still legal!), I won't bother filleting it. If its bigger that that, I go ahead and fillet it (or have it filleted). I don't measure them, I just eyeball the size. System works for me.
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Old 10-23-2009, 02:31 PM
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Gut them, oil them and throw on a hot grill or under the broiler until skin is crispy. The skin peels right off and you can pull out the bones.
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Old 10-23-2009, 03:02 PM
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How about like this??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YC7EoPO1wg
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Old 11-18-2009, 09:15 PM
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I take them, fillet them big or small, coat them with breadcrumbs and fry
until golden brown. for all you carnivores out there (including me ), porgies
have a firm texture with a meaty flavor, kind of like drum. enjoy
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Old 06-09-2011, 10:52 AM
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Sick video. I was in a sushi bar in San Diego and I saw something similar. They pulled the fish out of a tank, cut out the fillets and served them as sashimi with the still twitching rack on the platter.
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scale gut fry philly method
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Old 06-11-2011, 10:55 AM
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Wow... that video was pretty awful. Everyone was saying it was just reflexes, but I looked pretty close, the heart, lungs, kidney, etc all seemed to still be intact. That fish could very much have still been alive. That's just some Hannibal lector shit right there. Put the thing out of its misery.

That said, I had the BEST Sushi at a wedding at Seasons last night, I even liked the Octopus which I usually can't stand.

Oh yeah, The way I prepare Porgies, is to gut them on the boat, put in a plastic bag on ice, and then give them to my best friend who loves oily fish.
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