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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby Edcyclopedia » Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:13 am

Stanley wrote:Crappie. Another great eating fish is northern pike. You gotta know how get the bones out of them though.


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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby RaisedByWolves » Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:09 am

walleye and fresh stream trout. salt water- snake mackerel
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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby Tadmdad » Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:11 am

I think it depends alot on location. Like salt water fish over most fresh water.

Fresh Water....Walleye (pan fried), Whitefish/menioninee (smoked), perch or bluegill (deep fried). Catch alot of salmon and trout.

Salt Water..... Bluefin or Yellowfin tuna (fresh sushami), blackfin or skipjack tuna (grilled or blackened), Halibut (grilled or broiled), Mahi Mahi or Wahoo (grilled), Redfish, Pompano, Sheepshead, Whiting, Trout (blackened, grilled, sandwich or tacos), Cobia and various Snapper (steaked and grilled). Man...getting hungry :L:
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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby Wrinkleneck » Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:14 am

Crappie thru the ice then to the frying pan ;)
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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby adrenalin » Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:27 am

My favorite fried fish are perch. Favorite grilled fish are fresh cohos in May.
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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby Chinook » Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:46 am

Stanley wrote:Crappie. Another great eating fish is northern pike. You gotta know how get the bones out of them though.


When I was a kid my dad and his freinds used to go to northern Ontario for pike every year. In those days, they kept evey legal fish they caught. They'd come home with coolers full of pike. We'd be eating pike for months but, I havn't eaten it much since then. I forgot how good pike is.
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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby headgear » Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:59 am

I don't think I can pick just one, fresh walleye or trout is amazing, panfish love them all! Salmon, yummy - Halibut is hard to beat. Fresh tuna or marlin is great too. Give me a giant platter with a little bit of everything. The wife is big into sushi too, slap a little raw salmon or tuna on some rice and it is pretty darn good too.
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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby addisonlee » Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:10 am

Here's my list:
- Bluegills
- Perch
- Walleye
- Salmon
- Trout
- Whitebass
- Catfish
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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby Beason » Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:01 pm

Perch!

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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby swamp-assassin » Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:33 pm

highly opinionated on this one...hands down the walleye..even the big girls. beats a panfish up and down and around the block because one 23" walleye is a meal. if your one of those people that think panfish and percj is better eating than walleye then you need to know how to do it right because you have obviosly not had it done right...here it is
1. catch the walleye
2. cut the gills and let it bleed out.
3 fillet the walleye then let the fillets soak in a bowl of water with some salt for 4-12 hours.
4. cut the backstraps into 3 pieces and cut the tail off..split the tail in two, discarding the mud line make sure you discard the mudline on the backstraps too ont eat the belly meat so just cut the rib cage out
5. slice the backstraps down the middle to cut the thickness in half...essentially giving you one bluegill size pair of fillets for every chunk of backstrap...(shoud equal 6, double that you get 12.)
6. fry them in your favorite breading..personally i like shorlunch with ritz crackers

if you still would rather mess around trying to catch panfish then you and i have nothing in common :D ;)

p/s northern pike is the runner up...bigger the better..32" and up.
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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby straitnarrow » Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:38 pm

a frying pan full of fresh caught jumbo perch, Catfish with a bit of a cajun touch, and last but not least pickled pike.
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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby Zap » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:44 pm

Mako/fluke/blowfish.
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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby PLB » Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:43 am

Pan fried bluegills, grilled or smoked salmon, lightly breade perch, walleye or Northern Pike over an open fire on the shores of a lake in Ontario with a cold beer in my hand and good company to share it with!! Yeah, it doesn't get much better than that!! ;)
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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby Kodiakman » Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:09 pm

For me it doesn't get any better than fresh gills pulled through hard water. That's number 1. Number 2 is gills hauled in from a boat. But this is what I grew up on so I may be totally biased and just so used to it. It's still my Fav.

Perch and pike would be next, followed by cod, then walleye. Bass get a bad wrap unjustly due to them southern boys wanting you to release them so they can get bigger and bigger and bigger. Problem is on our lake they are stunting just like the perch and gills. TOO MANY OF THEM. I for one have zero problems cutting up a smallie or a largemouth.
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Re: Best Eating Fish

Unread postby BackWoodsHunter » Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:41 am

Dewey answered it right, Canadian walleye right out of the water and into the pan...doesn't get any better.


Perch or gills through the ice here in WI is my second choice.
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