#1: Yellow perch
#2: Walleye pike
Other fish are lesser fish in my opinion. I am restricting my evaluation to fresh water game fish.
I happen to like both Halibut and Chilean Sea Bass very well, but I'm buying those down at the store.
My father used to fish in NW Wisconsin every year (my mother was at the resort with him, but not on the lake fishing that much). He would fish with minnows in the middle of the day for Walleye and Perch on sandbars in a very large lake. The Walleye and Perch were similar in quality, but the edge, in my opinion, went to the Yellow perch. He would surface fish for bass in shallow shore side areas at first light and last light of day.
My mother would dredge the fish in flour and then fry it in bacon grease. Really, really good. It was important to cook it in hot bacon grease so the flour didn't get too greasy.