eating freshwater fish?

[stupidjet]

anybody eat freshwater fish? sunfish, crappie, smallmouth, largemouth, cats, etc?

[Entropy]

not usually. dont feel like cleaning pan fish, i C&R bass, and big cats taste like crap. on occasion though i will keep small cats, large crappie, and i love chain pickeral.

[stupidjet]

ha, i didnt even know anyone ate these fish until i was watching some videos on youtube and saw vids of people fileting sunfish, largemouth, and smallmouth bass. do they taste good?

[justinfisch01]

The only freshwater fish that I bother with besides a striper out of the Susquahanna are Walleye

[gillmen]

perch are really good eating too.

[Al Kai]

perch are really good eating too.

I agree.

[SmoothLures]

Grew up eating (and catching) crappie for yearsss. Down in the south, we have larger fish on average than the northern crappie. Gotta be 1 lb+ to bother being filleted. Also eat striper, catfish (yummmmm, catfish stew), largemouth bass. Other panfish are just too small to bother with.

[basstardo]

Bluegill is really good, as is largemouth. Catfish is good, but the big ones are mushy and don't taste all that great. Love some crappie. Best eating freshwater fish to me though is a walleye. Nice and light and flaky with a great flavor.

[TreednNC]

d@mn Terry....youre hard up if you think largemouth is good. tsk tsk lol

[Mark G]

No Trout lovers?

(Don't fresh water fish much myself, but would have guessed trout to be up there on the dinner plate selection)

[Carolina Rebel]

Small largemouth from a small pond are a fine eating fish. Bream, catfish, crappie, all are good eats.

[Hannibal]

Love me some trout. Spent many a frozen morning out in PA waiting for the "legal start time" of trout season. Used to be elbow to elbow fishing the stocked creeks.

[striperswiper]

trout is good. theres a trout farm behind my uncles house in PA. i like to sneak over there when i go up and fish it like its a trout blitz:D

[basstardo]

d@mn Terry....youre hard up if you think largemouth is good. tsk tsk lol

I can't fix it for chit, but Momma makes it good somehow. We had a guy down the street with a farm pond that was so overloaded with them, he told us to take them. They weren't bad when you fixed 'em right. I'd still rather put them back and eat a walleye instead. ;) Keep in mind, this was in BFE Ohio.

[lil red jeep]

Former inlaws own a piece of property in N.C. with some freshwater ponds on it, and we used to eat most everything we caught. My personal favorite is crappie. Most of the ones we caught were about the same size as the yellow belly spot I'd like to come across, so fileting them was quite easy. I could take or leave bass, and the only catfish I really care for is farm raised. Crappie is delicious!

[kingfisherman23]

Bass is ok when pan-seared with lemon.

Small and medium river catfish (don't bother with catfish from ponds so much) taste like flounder.

[jhmorgan]

LMB is too good of a game fish, with too much pressure, and not good enough taste to kill.

Soap Box here: if you keep bass out of a large body of water fine. But if you raid retention ponds and smaller bodies of water that almost is exclusively c & r, I take offense to it. Not saying people on this site do it, but on other sites I have seen it and it reallyyyyyyyyyy bothers me

[perchnut]

Best eating freshwater fish..walleye, yellow perch, crappie, native brookies....ahhhhhh.

[JFord56]

Been eating them all my life. Favorites are catfish, crappie, bream, perch, and mountain trout. (not in order) Hard to beat some fresh fried fish, slaw, hush puppies, and grits.
With a cold milla lite.

[BubbaHoTep]

. . . . My personal favorite is crappie. . . .and the only catfish I really care for is farm raised.

Crappie is my favorite, also. I like the big "shellcracker" bluegill/bream, too, as well as Rock Bass (what we call "redeyes"). On those panfish, I don't filet them; I just head, scale, and gut and fry em up whole. I am not a big fan of largemouth either; I throw those back. We have some lakes without a minumum size limit on those, and I can't stand to see someone with 6-10" largemouths in the livewell they plan to turn into "finger" strips. I do like farm-raised catfish, though, and trout. Around here, the stocked trout have a strong flavor when they get larger. Maybe that's true of freshwater trout in general. If I catch a trout over 12-14" I will throw it back, but I like the smaller ones very much. We have two lakes in our area with walleyes, and I used to walleye fish; they're good. One river here has sturgeon now (part of a Game/Fish Commission project). I've been wonering if freshwater sturgeon are good; I know the ones from saltwater are supposed to be, but I haven't tried them.

[SnookMook]

Down here in Florida it doesn't get any better than crappies or what we call "specks' down here. They get pretty big and are delicious. I've eaten my fair share of largemouth bass and other other assorted panfish (bream) as well as chain pickerel over the years and I think specks are the best by far.

[Reelturner]

pan fried whole bream rolled in cornmeal with slaw and puppies.

And in not no particular order I have to throw some good 'ole smallmouth in there as well. And not but not least finish up with walleye fried up in a pan.

RT

[Rockstar]

this went rather well... I posted a freshwater report awhile back and mentioned keeping a 2lbr. for dinner as I had never eatin' one... let's just say a lot of folks didn't take too kindly :P

[bigpapamd1]

i rarely now fish freshwater, but i would put R/B trouts & crappies up against
most saltwater fish!!!

[RuddeDogg]

catfish, trout, bass and crappie are my favorites.

[Carolina Rebel]

this went rather well... I posted a freshwater report awhile back and mentioned keeping a 2lbr. for dinner as I had never eatin' one... let's just say a lot of folks didn't take too kindly :P

People don't realize that to sustain a healthy bass fishery on small water, you should remove 25-35lbs of bass per acre per year to keep them from overpopulating. Those little "cull" bass (fish from .5-1.5 lbs) are fiiine eatin.

[red_fish]

Carp has got to be my fav right next to cob mullet umum good with some good ol homemade wine now that's a romantic dinner

[Grilled Sardine]

carp? :--| carp is on my list of most ugly and discusting fish!

[lil red jeep]

carp? :--| carp is on my list of most ugly and discusting fish!

I think he was kidding! At least I hope so!

[noypi]

...to each his/her own. i eat bluegill, crappie, catfish, bass. i'm weary about eating catfish, but farm raised is ok. gut, scale, and fry, steam, or boil them whole.

[kgpcr]

Cant stand catfish or bass but sunfish, crappies, perch, trout and walleye are top shelf!

[inshoreangler95]

God man, You guys are getting me hungry!