Keith is spot on what he said.

We have always thrashed the thing against the rocks as this both tenderises and cleans the skin off. Good Portugese mates used to zing it in a pressure cooker for a few minutes to tenderise the octopus and the pressure inside made it a cinch to get the skin off.

Prepare the octopus with a tomato based sauce and peri-peri. It's the closest one came come to heaven.

Thanx guyz.KC,intend using the octi for bait at the Snapper Classic.Read that alot of the non target fish in this comp tend to leave the octi alone.Many winners of the comp have used octi over the years.As mentioned above,not so many fish,but bigger ones when it happpens.Who knows?I`ll give it a crack anyways.Good luck during the Shark Hunt Smudge.That`s a boomer comp Counties runs.Will try that blanching advice KC for eating octi.Have eating octi before,and enjoyed it.May have been baby octi though.How can one catch baby octi?Saw a docco about fishermen in the Med.They went out each evening and laid smallish clay pots on a rope on the sandy seabed.Next morning,most of the pots were occupied by octi.The octi are nocturnal mostly in this area,and inhabit the pots as a new home.Clever eh.

Cheerz