09-03-2021, 12:22 PM
(09-03-2021, 11:18 AM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: It's so good, kinda like Cubera Snapper (have never eaten a Cubera, but have read from numerous sources); buttery, different-type of flake, just an all-around awesome flavor, most-likely because they eat a lot of crab and other crustaceans/mollusks, so their meat is similar (like the, "pumpkin," Swordfish caught in Islamorada; they are an orangey-pink, because they eat almost nothing but crab, shrimp and krill and their taste is reminiscent of what they eat, which is fairly-different from the standard, white-meat swords.
Hard to find Monkfish, nowadays.
If you get a chance to go shark fishing off Montauk, Old Fort Pond off Shinnecock Bay seemed to be filled with them.