OK OK... now you have got me feeling bad!! wasn't expecting that response.. I would like to remind you that I explained I was new to the sport and like all new things there is a period of learning, which is why i posted in the first place.. so please don't condemn me just yet.
So, anyway, to put you all a little more at ease... and provide a more accurate account of how I came to have a smoothy in my freezer..
We were fishing as described and did indeed catch a smoothy, the boat on the next buoy had caught a few (and killed them) but we put ours back. And as we were leaving they offered one of theirs.. so that is the one I placed in the freezer. But I wasn't convinced it was an eater hence the post!
Am I in the clear now?
And to conclude, it sounds like it should leave the freezer and enter the bin.. I'll stick with bass & mackerel in future.
Cheers
Nick