About a month ago I moved up north and I've managed to get in the water a few times since then, trying to find good dive spots. It hasn't been too hard 
About three weeks ago I dove a spot with heavy current and got a few nice cod.
Yesterday I tried a new location and after about an hour I spotted this wolffish and decided he'd be great for dinner. It turned out to be a nice size, around 9 kgs (20 lbs) with a massive head. My wife proclaimed she would prefer if I brought the next one home in fillets "so she could sleep at night"
The jaw muscles on the wolffish are enormous, it was about 450g of meat from this guy, and it will be put to good use in a Tom Yum thai soup this afternoon. I've never tried the cheek pieces from a wolffish before, but the halibut and cod pieces are the best on the entire fish, so I have high hopes for this as well.
For those of you who don't know, the wolffish is a sedate, bottom dwelling species which feed mostly on sea urchins. If you look closely you can see the remnants of a sea urchin inside the mouth of the fish in the pic below.
About three weeks ago I dove a spot with heavy current and got a few nice cod.
Yesterday I tried a new location and after about an hour I spotted this wolffish and decided he'd be great for dinner. It turned out to be a nice size, around 9 kgs (20 lbs) with a massive head. My wife proclaimed she would prefer if I brought the next one home in fillets "so she could sleep at night"
The jaw muscles on the wolffish are enormous, it was about 450g of meat from this guy, and it will be put to good use in a Tom Yum thai soup this afternoon. I've never tried the cheek pieces from a wolffish before, but the halibut and cod pieces are the best on the entire fish, so I have high hopes for this as well.
For those of you who don't know, the wolffish is a sedate, bottom dwelling species which feed mostly on sea urchins. If you look closely you can see the remnants of a sea urchin inside the mouth of the fish in the pic below.
