‘Used to see a lot of Barracuda in Miami. Never heard they were particularly good eating.
Mayor Vaughn: Martin, it’s all psychological. You yell barracuda, everybody says, “Huh? What?” You yell shark, we’ve got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.
I don’t think that pic is of a barracuda. No dark blotches on the sides as you would see with a ‘cuda that size. Wahoo, maybe?
Didn’t know barracuda were found on the West coast.
If that’s a Calif barracuda in the pic they are much different than Atlantic types.
Used to see many in the S. Fla area. Fun to catch.
Some people ate the small ones inshore but avoided them when caught on the reefs. Their meat could be tainted with poisons from their eating some reef fish.