[Play-n-hooky]

On three ocassions in the past 2 weeks I have caught and eaten stripers around the reserve fleet in the james river. I noticed that after cooking them( twice fried/once broiled) that the flesh seemed transparent, almost as if it was not fully cooked. On all three ocassions the fish had no sores and appeared healthy. Some of us that ate the fish did spend a liitle extra time in the outhouse the following day and experinced flu like symtoms. Does any body have any feed back on this or has any body experienced simular problems.

[NJ1]

did you cook it enough? The meat should be opaque when cooked, not transparent. As far as I know, the fish should be fine. They migrate all over the place, so James River stripers prob. become bay/ocean stripers at some point.

[flicknanders]

the james river stripers ive been eating have been fine. ive been catching mine around the JRB. how do you catch them at the ghost fleet?

[1st Mate]

The James River stripers are good to eat. There is nothing wrong with them what so ever. My dad works at the Surry Power plant and the intake canal is loaded with stripers. My dad and I went out there last night and caught some nice healthy stripers. Biggest was 28'' smallest was 24'' The surry power plant is located out near the ghost ships and there is plenty of striper to be caught. Throw storms or bucktails around the ships and you will catch striper or go near the power plant and there is a discharge area and is ''loaded'' with bait and it is a striper feeding frenzy. I use 6'' inch bunkered color storms. Every striper I have caught over is perfectly healthy and have not had a problem eating them. The biggest one I've caught out of there was a 23lber last year and was as healthy as it could be. I fry all my fish, your fish must not have been cooked enough. Try cooking it a little longer next time. Rockfish is my #1 table fair. Tight lines to all.....


1st Mate


Chris

[Play-n-hooky]

I pride myself in my cooking abillity and know for a fact that these fish were cooked enough. I have been cooking for 20 years and know that something other then the cooking time had an effect on the transparency of the flesh. The third time I ate these fish I pan fried a little too long and the seafood breader burned slightly. I checked the flesh and still it appeared transparent so I put them in the convection oven at 350 for 10 minutes and still no change to the color and texture of fish.

[m.t. pockets]

I know that we dont eat any stripers that we catch on the upper james. The Rock FIsh coem up here to spawn, right at the Waste Water treatemnt plant, so i like to let them get back to brackash water.