Favorite fish to eat

[NodakBuckeye]

Walleye, perch, pike, gills, crappie, all good.

 

[Still_Learnin']

Drum? Really!? I've only had one or two (not in this state) and found them to be tough and tasteless. Was it cooked in a way that was something other than breaded and deep fried?

 

[Davy Crockett]

Anything out of cold water is my favorite , I like the flavor of Northerns best but my favorite to eat is Perch because they are so darn easy to clean.
Has anyone else acquired a taste for 12- 15 inch pan fried trout ? Almost lived on them back in the 70s-early 80s in the Turtle Mountains.

 

[Pinecone]

mountain carp, perch or an eye

 

[sl1000794]

Anything out of cold water is my favorite , I like the flavor of Northerns best but my favorite to eat is Perch because they are so darn easy to clean.
Has anyone else acquired a taste for 12- 15 inch pan fried trout ? Almost lived on them back in the 70s-early 80s in the Turtle Mountains.

Caught a bunch of rainbows from Strawberry Lake during the winter of '72/'73 (the last winter I spent in ND.) I thought that they were good when they were pan fried, but they really stunk up the house frying them inside in the winter. If I caught any now I'd smoke them.

 

[ISELLGUNS]

I like hammer handles through the ice, but there isn't much I don't like.

 

[Davy Crockett]

Caught a bunch of rainbows from Strawberry Lake during the winter of '72/'73 (the last winter I spent in ND.) I thought that they were good when they were pan fried, but they really stunk up the house frying them inside in the winter. If I caught any now I'd smoke them.

Yep, That's where we caught them too . The bigger ones we smoked but the small ones we always kept a couple small ones to pan fry. Carbury Dam is where we caught some nice smoking trout , It was nothing to go out and catch a limit of 5 and 6 pound rainbow . Like the old saying goes, You don't know what you got till it's gone .

 

[svnmag]

Anything deep fried in golden batter which doesn't taste like fish. I like walleye, pike and channel cat equally. I actually can't recall eating a perch...If I had to pick an absolute, it would be Long John Silver's or Red Lobster deep fried grouper. I had mahi once and really just remember the texture was more like chicken breast than fish.

 

[Davy Crockett]

Anything deep fried in golden batter which doesn't taste like fish. I like walleye, pike and channel cat equally. I actually can't recall eating a perch...If I had to pick an absolute, it would be Long John Silver's or Red Lobster deep fried grouper. I had mahi once and really just remember the texture was more like chicken breast than fish.

Do wild channel cats taste different than restaurant served, Or is it something you acquire a taste for ? I've only had it in restaurants, Once down south , I assume they were probably farm raised and they had a mud taste that reminded me of warm water mouse river northerns. I couldn't eat it. Another time I took a chance at the golden corral, I wasn't expecting much and I was glad I only took a small piece.

 

[svnmag]

TAILRACE channel cat...

 

[Davy Crockett]

Cooked up a few mouse river bullhead for supper , Skinned and grilled over briquettes with a paint brush slopping on BBQ sauce. Got a bunch of company just when they were getting done and they all dived in, I only got a small piece but it was good. I only kept a few because I wasn't sure how they would turn out but it was like picking rocks, and big ones.

 

[svnmag]

Well, if you ate that then any channel cat would be good eating. Bleed out and discard the red meat. CC have the same feeding habits of pike. They'll even hit topwater (that's pretty violent IME). I didn't understand the "rock" reference.

 

[Davy Crockett]

I grew up on a farm in the hills where rocks were a great plenty , There was no possible way , Even if you had never picked a rock before in your life that you couldn't pick a pile of rocks.

 

[MSA]

Oh and blue cat

 

[DirtyMike]

Not much better than perch through the ice. But if we're going to be worldly, seared ahi tuna or halibut.

 

[WormWiggler]

dolphin

 

[Bri-guy]

Best fish I've ever had was fresh caught mahi-mahi. Around here you can't beat cold water northern or perch.

 

[guywhofishes]

Best fish I've ever had was fresh caught mahi-mahi.

I am guessing your "location" when dining on that influenced your perception?

 

[wildeyes]

Perch cold water hands down.

 

[guywhofishes]

dolphin