Has anyone on here ever eaten Piranha?

NACl H2O Luvr

Watched a show on sportsman channel last night where they were fishing for Pirhana, they said it is very good eating.

I was just curious for some first hand experience if anyone had ever eaten any. What does it taste like, which Florida species would you compare it to?

Triple Threat 33T

No but I understand its similar to specks.

Mister-Jr

When they get too big for the aquarium, I just dump them in a canal behind my house.

Polar

if you feed a piranha steaks, will it taste like steak when you eat it?

Tarpon65

Mister-Jr wrote: »

When they get too big for the aquarium, I just dump them in a canal behind my house.

I see nothing wrong with that. What could possibly happen?

Tarpon65

Polar wrote: »

if you feed a piranha steaks, will it taste like steak when you eat it?

No, it will taste like specks. Pay attention!

Tarpon65

BTW, I'm sitting in my car beside the Skyway pier posting all this funny stuff. Net Neutrality is great!

Polar

Tarpon65 wrote: »

No, it will taste like specks. Pay attention!

Hiahleah angler is gonna get mad at that statement

NACl H2O Luvr

Polar wrote: »

if you feed a piranha steaks, will it taste like steak when you eat it?

Just make sure you don't feed it Omaha Steaks. :grin

Triple Threat 33T

My Dad and Uncle have both had them. They say they're excellent

NACl H2O Luvr

Triple Threat 33T wrote: »

My Dad and Uncle have both had them. They say they're excellent

This was the actual show I watched.....managed to find it on Youtube.....they look like giant bluegills....would imagine they would be tasty.

If you don't have much time, start watching at about the 3 minute mark....he's fileting the Piranha, and loses the tip of his finger to a bite....Crazy!

[video=youtube_share;JI3LXRqbDdM]http://youtu.be/JI3LXRqbDdM[/video]

Polar

I wish I had a gold tooth

Tropic Rat

As has anyone else that has eaten "fish" in a resturant

Mister-Jr

Conchy Cracker

I rarely have time to watch other people fish, I'm normally too busy with watching paint dry and grass growing.

FishInFL

You punch them out and they taste like scallops

WaVeCrAzEd

of course they taste good there meat eaters.

NACl H2O Luvr

fishonhenson wrote: »

I have a few times, very good. peacock is good as well

Very Nice! Looks like flaky white meat. Seems like you did some sort of Amazon basin trip?

Machine Head

fishonhenson wrote: »

I have a few times, very good. peacock is good as well

Don't know what he's talking about. That Look's Terrible.

Towers

Tastes like chicken... lol

T-Daddy

Yep, they are good. Firm white meat. The peacocks are good as well. Ate them every night for a week on a peacock trip to Brazil in 2009. Fantastic trip by the way and I hope to be able to revisit it one of these days.

NACl H2O Luvr

T-Daddy wrote: »

Yep, they are good. Firm white meat. The peacocks are good as well. Ate them every night for a week on a peacock trip to Brazil in 2009. Fantastic trip by the way and I hope to be able to revisit it one of these days.

Cool, thanks for sharing.....that type of trip is on my list as well.

Any good outfitters you can recommend?

T-Daddy

NACl H2O Luvr wrote: »

Cool, thanks for sharing.....that type of trip is on my list as well.

Any good outfitters you can recommend?

I am spacing the guys name right now, but I will look it up when I get home and post it up then. It will be well worth the cost to do it. The Amazon is truly amazing, the wildlife is through the roof. The remoteness of the place is perhaps without comparison. Friendly people, particularly the natives you may encounter out on the water. There are some tribes that are not friendly, but the good guide services know who they are and where they are and stay away. The variety of fish, weird-weird fish is also amazing. Most people target the low water season so they can throw the big top water plugs and flies. When we were there the water was still unusually high, which meant we were fishing in the flooded jungle, only occasionally were we in a position to cast the top waters and mostly were flipping jigs in the flooded jungle. It was intense to have a 15 pound peacock latch onto your jig after a 15 foot cast/flip.

T-Daddy

River plate outfitters.

http://www.riverplateanglers.com/

The agent we used was in Atlanta and I believe he split time between here and somewhere in FL, I will post his contact info later on.

kalik it or ticket

I think they taste like thirsty cows and south american native people.

T-Daddy

Gary Laden, in Atlanta, 678-327-6787. I suppose he is like a booking agent (?).