Free Food???

[Btech]

With the tough economic times and grocerys going up in price... Im wondering what fish would make a good meal. Im looking for somthing easy to catch (Other than Catfish) that makes good food and where could I find information on how to catch them? Any Recipee's would be nice as well.

[Mobydick]

Panfish fries are always fun.

Get an ultralight setup, a few small lures, but hooks and nightcrawlers would work well.

Find an area with a lot of crappie, perch, and maybe a few pickeral.

Take a buddy along, if he doesn't want to keep his catch, you can.

You may only catch a few, or you could catch a limit.

I'm sure someone has some better ideas though....

Have fun and good luck!

                                                              Ian

[Bassn Blvd]

My favorite in order.

1 catfish

2 speck/crappie

3 bluegill/bream

4 bass

Saltwater fish over all of above though.

 

IMO fried is the easiest.  Very basic recipe.

1 Beat egg.

2 dip fillet in egg

3 roll fillet in Italian bread crumbs but you can use salt and peppered flour or crushed toll house butter crackers.

4 place fillet into skillet of pre-heated hot olive oil.

5 cook both sides until golden brown, usually 1-2 minutes each side depending on thickness of fillet.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

I wonder do they have tilapia that far north of here? Can never pull too many of those buggers out of the water.

[Btech]

I dont think so - than again i never heard of it .... should i have?

[daviscw]

Nah, they don't, at least not naturally. Crappie would be your best shot around here Btech.

[Jake.]

There's a good population of stocked Tilapia in one of the ponds I fish. I've never tried to eat them though.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Was just wondering though.They are quite good to eat better than the farm raised ones you can get at the grocery store.They are very plentiful,legal to use a castnet on also. Normally a strict vegatable eater they are easy to catch with a small hook with a splitshot with redworms or maggots dragged down a shallow shoreline especially when they spawn(which is about 8 months out of the year lol)

They are a menace around florida and will overcrowd a pond in a haertbeat.

[daviscw]

Was just wondering though.They are quite good to eat better than the farm raised ones you can get at the grocery store.They are very plentiful,legal to use a castnet on also. Normally a strict vegatable eater they are easy to catch with a small hook with a splitshot with redworms or maggots dragged down a shallow shoreline especially when they spawn(which is about 8 months out of the year lol)

They are a menace around florida and will overcrowd a pond in a haertbeat.

The only time I hear of them around here is when they put them in trout farms to clean up the watse the trout leave. They are as bad as catfish scavenger wise.

[Bassn Blvd]

Talapia are very good eating.  Taste wise anyways.  I recently heard, probably false, that Talapia are very high in cholesterol. I didn't do any research on this though.

[MichiganFisherman]

My favorites are yellow perch being #1... then walleye, salmon, trout, bluegill, pike, and bass.  You can eat any fish though and most of them are pretty good when rolled in flour with garlic, pepper, and salt and fried in olive oil.  

[SirSnookalot]

I'm originaly from Michigan and my family was in the fish business for 40 years.

Easiest to catch and great tasting........yellow lake perch.

Walleye, walleye, walleye !!!!!!!!!!!(Pickeral and walleye are similiar but not the same).

Seeing as you are in N.C. I'm not the most familiar with the species availble to you, perhaps trout, not hard to catch and they taste great.

On a trip to Mexico, we had tiliapia prepared by the locals. They just gutted the fish and cooked them over an open flame, one of the best meals I had down there. It's a mild tasting fish.

[shaw24]

Now I'm hungry I like to eat bluegill and crappie. Like everyone else said dip them in eggwash and coat in breadcrumbs or flour and fry em up nice and golden brown.

I just cooked some crappie up in some store bought mix and deepfried in some used oil that was in the fryer...tasted like mud! I don't know if my oil was bad or what but I'm sticking to the skillet for now.