*ROFL* Ya'll can sure tell who's southern and who's northern by this thread, it's great!!
Down here in Georgia and at home in northwestFlorida the salt water pick would be GROUPER - black, gag, red, fried, grilled, blackened, or in a sammich! Fresh water is catfish (Yep, catfish) or crappie, although blue gill is awfully good, too!
I don't like mud cat, or catfish that comes from the river or old ponds. We have Great Northern Channel Cat in our pond and it is the cleanest best tasting cat ever and the only way to cook it down here is DEEP FRIED in peanut oil.
Mullet is popular, but it's only good cooked the old way - fried with peanut oilwith just a little bit of bacon grease thrown in. Now, can ya'll guess I'm a country lady andI love tocook, especially SEAFOOD?