Eating fish (fresh or salt)

[pigpounder]

I'm not sure if this topic has been hit yet but when I was growing up my dad & I would bring home some bass & crappie for a fish fry, that was then,now I just eat salt water fish...Do any of you eat fish ? if so fresh or salt or both.

[roadwarrior]

I fancy myself as a chef and do all of the cooking at my house.  We have fish at least once a week.  I generally prefer freshwater fish but there are exceptions.  I keep few fish, but the few I keep are served fresh.  My preference is walley or sauger,  followed by crappie, catfish and striper.  Lots of guys recommend bluegill but I don't fish for them and the ones I catch wouldn't amount to a meal, so I don't bother. I do a couple of trout trips but I don't like to eat trout more than once or twice a year.

I fish twice a year in the Gulf. I prefer the yellow fin tuna fresh but I'll freeze snapper, dolphin and trigger. I don't keep wahoo or amber jacks- too fishy for me.

[GamblerFL]

Salt water fish. I like grouper but a friend of mine had a way to cook mullet of all fish and I am here to tell you that was the best fish I have ever eaten. He would grill it with some sort of powder on it. Come to think of it, I need to call him!

[duncast48TN]

Fresh water. I think sauger is the best. Crappie ties with bluegill and shellcracker.  You can hardly beat a big platter of shellcracker fillets and they are easier to find and catch than sauger,at least for me. 8)

[L.D.]

Around here, it's the walleye I like to eat when I get a chance. If I catch any durring a charter I offer it to the client. They are seldom refused.

I have often gone out by myself after a charter to get a couple for supper. My version of stopping at the store on the way home.

L.D.

[Stickling]

I dont eat much fish, never cared much for the taste. Salmon is alright tho. Wonder what bass taste like?? Not willing to find out though. I hear smaller bass are ok to eat.

[Big_Bass_Rich]

Bass are great, panfish - awesome, walleye - can't beat 'em, pike - ooh wonderful pike, catfish - like 'em better smoked but great any old way, heck I've even eaten carp! (which aren't too bad if you eat only small ones!)

Trout/Salmon are OK too but personally I don't like them that much. I'll eat a smoked fresh run steelhead once in a while that's it.

MMMM This post made me hungry! It may be time to fry up some panfish next time I hit the ice!

[Nick_Barr]

I think saltwater fish are more tasty and hearty while feshwater fish are good for a small quick meal. I eat freshwater trout but i only have about one serving of saltwater fish a month.

[Fisher of Men]

I prefer freshwater mainly because that's all I ate growing up. I am trying to expand into saltwater though. My first choice is crappie because it has a less fishy taste (fried is most common, but I've grilled and broiled before/very good), then catfish(young).  I don't eat bass anymore, but did quite a bit growing up.  I still remember my dad and I bringing home stringers crammed full of bass.  You'd be stoned if you did that today.  My have times changed.

[Stickling]

what do you mean by being stoned? Drugged up?

[earthworm77]

Striper and crappie are my fave's

[Fisher of Men]

Stickling,  I mean having people throwing rocks at you (like in the Bible when they "stoned" Christians for their belief).  Sorry for the confusion (generation gap, I think) ;D

IOW: The fact that so many of us are "catch and release" fishermen, we would be frowned upon if we took home so many bass.

[Stickling]

oh lol yea, agreed on the generation gap. A 20 year age gap. But as long as its not 10 pounders your taking home i dont know anyone that would care. Selective harvest is important. So your actually helping the pond/lake.

[Fisher of Men]

I don't know, you should see some of the pictures.  I ate alot of bass growing up. LOL

[Stickling]

LoL what does it taste like? I mean is it good? I heard that smaller ones are better than Big ones.

[IneedAnewScreenName-98375]

I eat freah and salt, bass,crappie and catfish on the freshwater side and grouper(the best:) snapper and flounder.   I enjoy most fish and try to eat it once or twice a week. Winter time I eat alot of tuna  ;D

[Bud_in_OR]

Striper and Halibut!!  Trim all the red meat off and throw away.  Cut fillets into three inch pieces, one inch thick. Get a cookie sheet  with flat screen rack ready and pre-heat oven to 400deg. Also heat a large skilley with a quarter inch of cooking oil.

Get a box of Krust-ease Bake n Fry, 1/2 cup grated parmesan, 1 cup Italian bread crumbs and 1/8 cup dried parsley (sometimes I add corn flakes).  Mix together and put it in a paper bag.

In a flat bowl beat some eggs and milk with garlic salt and pepper.

1. Dredge fish pieces in dry mix then dip in egg then back in dry mix. Nasty-messy but worth it.

2. Brown pieces quickly in  hot skillet (both sides) and place on rack in cookie sheet. You are not cooking the fish in the oil, merely browning and crisping the coating. The inside will still be raw at this point.

3. Place cookie sheet in 400 deg. oven. Bake five minutes per inch. That would be 2 1/2 min for half inch thick pieces and 7 1/2 min for one and one-half inch thick pieces.

If you have a better, grease free, recipe for flaky moist fish, please tell me.

Bud

[pigpounder]

Yessssssssss!  ;D sounds like a tasty striper, got to try it.     thanks.

[squid]

Walleye, bass, all pan fish.  Oh heck, I will eat it all if it is on my plate, Fresh or Saltwater fish.  Cooked or Raw...lol....with a big bowl of rice and some wasabe to put on it....  Dated a Japanese girl for three years when I lived in California... ;D

[abelfisher]

Hey Squid, What part of California did you live?