What fish do you feel is the best to eat?
02-27-2017, 12:01 PM
#213
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jul 2004
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#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.
#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.
03-05-2017, 07:52 AM
#217
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: central Ky
Posts: 2,867
I'd be willing to bet if any of yall ever get to try Kokanee salmon about as long as your arm, gut quick, pour a small bit of peanut oil in a cast iron skillet big enough for a family of purto-ricans to take a bath in, season inside & outside, and throw them in there still flopping. Flip, then when both sides/all through are done take them out & lay them on a serving platter or suitable huge piece of bark from driftwood (DRY), flip over, then flip again, and you're holding a perfect skeleton including head, tail, and every bone, and there's 2 perfect full length filets lying on it's skin with NO wasted meat. They're so delicate & flaky the meat comes right off the bones allowing you to do that. The flavor is SOOO exquisite and about 1,820,183 times better and fresher than if you buy "fresh" filets at a store, and NO strong taste of any kind! I'd bet you would change your vote!
03-06-2017, 04:09 AM
#218
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Onslow County, NC
Posts: 1,856
I'd be willing to bet if any of yall ever get to try Kokanee salmon about as long as your arm, gut quick, pour a small bit of peanut oil in a cast iron skillet big enough for a family of purto-ricans to take a bath in, season inside & outside, and throw them in there still flopping. Flip, then when both sides/all through are done take them out & lay them on a serving platter or suitable huge piece of bark from driftwood (DRY), flip over, then flip again, and you're holding a perfect skeleton including head, tail, and every bone, and there's 2 perfect full length filets lying on it's skin with NO wasted meat. They're so delicate & flaky the meat comes right off the bones allowing you to do that. The flavor is SOOO exquisite and about 1,820,183 times better and fresher than if you buy "fresh" filets at a store, and NO strong taste of any kind! I'd bet you would change your vote!
03-06-2017, 04:47 AM
#219
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 5,605
I would put a fried softshell blue crab sandwich over any freshwater fish I have ever had.
Out of all the fresh off the boat fish i tried in Florida, the Tally aka Ocean Trigger fish we caught was preferred by everyone in our 7 person group. We fished everyday for 2 weeks and caught a huge variety of fish.
Fresh water im partial to crappie, goggle eye and smallish catfish from cleaner waters. Trout is pretty much at the bottom and ive eaten/caught plenty of them. Browns and Brookies to me are the best of the lot. I would rather eat a white bass than a trout and that isn't saying much for them.
03-09-2017, 04:19 PM
#220
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: WI
Posts: 1,089
Those are crazy good.
Out of all the fresh off the boat fish i tried in Florida, the Tally aka Ocean Trigger fish we caught was preferred by everyone in our 7 person group. We fished everyday for 2 weeks and caught a huge variety of fish.
Fresh water im partial to crappie, goggle eye and smallish catfish from cleaner waters. Trout is pretty much at the bottom and ive eaten/caught plenty of them. Browns and Brookies to me are the best of the lot. I would rather eat a white bass than a trout and that isn't saying much for them.
Out of all the fresh off the boat fish i tried in Florida, the Tally aka Ocean Trigger fish we caught was preferred by everyone in our 7 person group. We fished everyday for 2 weeks and caught a huge variety of fish.
Fresh water im partial to crappie, goggle eye and smallish catfish from cleaner waters. Trout is pretty much at the bottom and ive eaten/caught plenty of them. Browns and Brookies to me are the best of the lot. I would rather eat a white bass than a trout and that isn't saying much for them.
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