Tony Murray

Give a Grouper a shiner - 3/12/2007

Using freshwater shiners for grouper fishing?
Are you kidding -- why would you want to do that? And then the real question: Well... does it work?

The idea of using live freshwater shiners for saltwater fishing first occurred to me when I had run out of pinfish over the top of an active grouper hole and nothing else would work to get the bite going again. In winter time, the pinfish disappear to who-knows-where and I was lucky

Grouper Throats and Cheeks - 3/12/2007

Throats, Cheeks and Backbones... by Tony Murray
These are absolute delicacies and I see them discarded all too often. We make a meal out of nothing but those; and the kids go crazy over them. By using all of the fish; it is a sign of respect for the animal as well as the resource. A whole meal out of what some people discard; think about it. If you haven't tried grilled grouper throats, sautéed grouper cheeks, and smoked backbones in sesame ginger marinade before, you will not believe what you are missing...