I don't eat fish...

[SkunkApe]

I'm serious, I don't eat fish. And yea I'll have a bite every now and then, and it's ok. I love Clams, Oysters, crabs, shrimp...just not fish. It's all because when I was a kid, I about choked out on a floating bone in a flounder fillet. :--|

Are there any other fish addicts that just don't eat what they catch? BTW, all the fish I keep are donated to one cause or another.

Just thought I'd throw that out as when I say that to people. they look at me like I've got three heads..:D

Skunk

[drawinout]

I usually play the catch and release game unless I have someone that definitely wants some fish. Don't get me wrong, I like fish, I just usually don't feel like cleaning them. I'll usually keep some tuna and dolphin meat, but I don't keep most of the fish I catch. It doesn't bother me at all to throw them back for another day.

[UOPaul]

I do not eat many of the fish I catch. Most are given away to friends and neighbors. The only things that we eat that I catch really are striper, and flounder when I can actually a flounder that can be kept. Will probably eat any sea bass, or tautog that I get this saturday though.

[Cdog]

I release prolly 90% of the fish I catch, its not that I don't like fish, I am just lazy and don't like cleaning em.

[BentHook]

I'll keep about 6 whiting,2 pompano and one bluefish for the year.The rest goes back or is bait.
I'm like you,I'll eat plenty of clams, oysters, crabs and shrimp.

[SmoothLures]

I'm probably 50:50. Just don't feel like cleaning them sometimes, or if it's slow and I catch a keeper I'll let him go.

Edit - I hate eating shrimp and shellfish. Yuck.

[emanuel]

I release most of my fish or give them away. I've kept almost nothing in the past year except what I've given to the neighbors or the people who have been nice enough to take me out on their boat.

However, I am a glutton for shellfish.:beer:

[SnookMook]

If you lived in Florida, you'd probably eat more fish. There's just too many tasty things that swim around down here to pass up.

I'm not even going to get into the lobster, crabs, shrimp, scallops, etc. you seem to prefer.

[uncdub13]

I release prolly 90% of the fish I catch, its not that I don't like fish, I am just lazy and don't like cleaning em.

ditto

[charlesw]

I thought i was alone on this line of thought. I catch fish to have a good time, not to put food on the table. I sure do get some strange looks when I release a 40" redfish. The only exception is once a year I'll keep a shark.

[emanuel]

There's a couple of fish that have a 100% mortality rate (unless regulations say otherwise) if I catch them. Those are wahoo, tuna and grouper.

Most of the time I release or share partly because I'm too lazy to clean them and number two, the girlfriend doesn't eat fish.

[shark21]

I fish constantly in both fresh and salt and never keep anything. I love to eat fish and other than canadaian walleye or a few brook trout on primitive campng trips, I would rather go to the fish market. I almost got tosssed off a few piers for throwing whiting backover the rail.

[NTKG]

I release the majority of fish I catch as well, however... I am Korean so I would be lying to say I don't like fish!

[Hannibal]

I am a play by ear keeper. I am not a huge fish fan to begin with (other than maybe FRESH salmon) but I will keep the occasional fish depending on my intent. What I mean is that if I am fishing for keeper stripers and I am lucky enough to land one - I am keeping it and having some family over for a nice dinner. If I am just "seeing what's biting" and action is hot, I might keep a few here and there.

I am also kind of lazy so sometimes I donate rather than keep. Example - I ALWAYS seem to land one keeper flounder when I hit Assateague/Chicoteague. It's like a running joke at this point. I am not actively fishing for them - they just grab my bait. Being a good eating fish, it goes on the ice. However, each time, I've usually walked away relatively empty handed outside of that nice flounder.

Being that my wife doesn't eat fish and it's not a big enough fish to feed myself, my brother and his wife well, I usually offer it to my neighbor who LOVES fish. They've eaten well on me a few times. Had I caught two flounders (or more of another "eating" fish), I would have put them on my dinner table. But one fish wasn't cutting it. So, I made a friend (and his wife) very happy.

[basstardo]

I used to be the same as Clay and Emanuel, but it was mainly because I sucked at cleaning fish. I've gotten better so I've started to keep more, but only what I know I will eat. I'm not one to stock a freezer full of filets because I know how my family eats and they'll sit there forever. That and I like it fresh, many times from the cutting board to the grease. Much better that way.

[kingfisherman23]

Kings, medium blues and flounder (only 1 or 2 each a year) come home to the table.

Other than that, I don't keep much. I like shrimp, but not oysters, lobster or crab.

Now deer are another story, and I might keep more fish if I didn't have 165# of deer meat in my chest freezer.

Evan

[Bulldog]

Anybody wanting to "give away" fish can give me a call.

[AbuMike]

Anybody wanting to "give away" fish can give me a call.


My thoughts exactly....

[dirtyhandslopez]

Omniverous. If bunker tasted good i'd try to eat it. Plus I like the carcasses for the compost heap of fish that have been cleaned. However Charlotte has learned not to keep every sunfish she catches. House rule is you catch it and keep it, you clean it. We're just getting to the doggies, skate and blues caught in the spring.

[basstardo]

Since you have all that other fish Darren, I'll take that walleye meat off your hands. :D;):popcorn:

[Caught Myself]

I keep a few Spot to brine for Drum bait for the fall run. Flounder would have a real problem with me but the keepers have learned to avoid me quite well.

[geo]

I eat the hell outa fish, bluefish, puppydrum, spanish etc, catch enough througout the summer to have fresh fish at least weekly love it like it gotta have it..........geo

[medicdav66]

I most often give-away what I catch. Or it is subversively just "kept" by someone I am fishing with (and you know who you are). I still would have like at least a TASTE of that flounder!
If it's big enough to fillet, I will keep and clean it. Other than that, and if nobody near-by wants it, it lives to swim another day!

Did I read correctly? Who keeps SKATES?!? And for WHAT?--The biggest nuisance in the sea if you ask me! If dirtyhandslopez is keeping skates, he should never go hungry!

[kingfisherman23]

I've heard that skate wings are pretty good fried up.

I mean, that's what fake scallops are made from for cheap restaurants...

[EverSoDull]

Fillet and Release is my motto, if it is big enough to fillet we eat it.

Last time we were in Hatteras I took a small deep fryer and cooked fresh fish in the motel room every night. Very tasty!

[geo]

Skate wings into scallops no way!!:D

[Fireline20]

I have always heard that only two things in the world smell like fish and one of them is fish......I eat them both:D:D:D

[RuddeDogg]

I had a very good friend of mine who did not eat seafood, especially fish. He was an avid angler and when he caught he kept what he caught and gave to others.

[RuddeDogg]

I've heard that skate wings are pretty good fried up.

I mean, that's what fake scallops are made from for cheap restaurants...

yep skate isnt bad. Posted some good recipes for it.

[Fish'n Phil]

I don't eat fish either... give it away to friends or family. Any one ready for croakahzzz?

[TimKan7719]

I catch and keep and catch and release depending on my mood and belly, I also like to have one big fish fry once a year for friends, but I bring them fishing and make them catch the fish first. I have that many poles, and I have been cleaning fish sense i was a little boy and learned filleting bluegils. So if anyone catches some fish and dont want them if your near me, I will take them, If your to lazy to clean your fish I an Near I will clean them for you(had a buddy bring a Striper to my house after a night of Fishing and his fish was cleaned and vacum sealed in 20 min). I also Love little bluefish in the 15-28 inch range, some people say they are not good but I eat them. Skate are not bad yes they are used to make fake scallopes, but i just clean them and fry them I think they are ok if you catch a big enough one, or they make good shark bait. Well thats my long answer.
Tight Lines,
Tim

[Fireline20]

I catch and keep and catch and release depending on my mood and belly, I also like to have one big fish fry once a year for friends, but I bring them fishing and make them catch the fish first. I have that many poles, and I have been cleaning fish sense i was a little boy and learned filleting bluegils. So if anyone catches some fish and dont want them if your near me, I will take them, If your to lazy to clean your fish I an Near I will clean them for you(had a buddy bring a Striper to my house after a night of Fishing and his fish was cleaned and vacum sealed in 20 min). I also Love little bluefish in the 15-28 inch range, some people say they are not good but I eat them. Skate are not bad yes they are used to make fake scallopes, but i just clean them and fry them I think they are ok if you catch a big enough one, or they make good shark bait. Well thats my long answer.
Tight Lines,
Tim

Ditto of eating the blues;

Trick is:

1. As soon as u catch em, slit the throats to bleed them.

2. Throw them in a bucket of of ocean water and let them bleed till the flesh turns white.

3. Gut em, whack the heads and put them on ice ASAP

4. You wanna fillet em, do that next, if not take them home packed in ice, scale them with a spoon, wash again and eat em or freeze them but not in water.

5. Frying is ok but I prefer to put some butter, salt and pepper in the cavity, place two slices of lemon on each side and roll them them in aluminum foil and bake them at 325 for about 30 mins.

6. Pull em out, unroll em, serve them with rice pilaf and steamed sugar snap peas or fresh green beans.

[BubbaHoTep]

I also like to eat what I catch. Small to medium blues are good if you bleed them first, and I'd rather bake them like fire says or broil them. To my knowledge, I've never knowingly eaten skate, but if they're used for fake scallops at restaurants, I have.

Around here in East Tennessee, we don't have many bona-fide striped bass. We have white bass and a white-striper "hybrid." I keep hearing everyone say how good stripers are, and I'd love to try them sometime. The whites and the hybrids from the freshwater around here aren't very good at all. My uncle used to like those, but he also ate mud cats, carp, and gar. To each his/her own, I guess.

About the only way I can eat black drum is if they're marinated heavily in something beforehand. I used Italian dressing for the ones my wife and I caught last summer, and they were okay. Personally, I'd rather eat spadefish than black drum.

As for shellfish, I could eat peel-and-eat shrimp very literally all day. I have a mild allergy to shellfish, though, and have to stop at the right time - but it's worth it!!! :)

[fatsearobin]

Love to eat fish:) especialy at night I turn off all the lights, because New York Fish always gives me such a bright glow:D. I thinks it's the vitamins in the fish:D:D :p:p

[chadwickfeesh]

i eat fish/shell fish 3 times a week -- some times i'll eat it every other day. i've been really fortunate this year and have a nice stock of fish in the deep freeze -- working in alaska during the summer helps with the habit.:p

when it comes to bleeding out fish -- don't do it in water. the flesh will absorb water rather quickly once the fish is dead -- therefore loosing a lot of the good stuff -- vitamins. fatty acids. flavor. and texture. bleed them feeshes out on dry land and you'll end up with better meat. you can always cut the blood lines out of those blues and the likes after you skin 'em.

oh, yeah if any of you guys that are too lazy to clean fish bring 'em on over and i'll work 'em up in no time, but there will be a tax of course.:D

[kq6]

pan seared flounder w/chile and fresh lime.

carmalized striper cubes with either honey and texas pete,soy,or reduced balsamic vinager.

smoked blue

saute tog topped w/cilantro salsa

good ol autry's fish fry with corn fritters

thats my intention when i go fishing.

ken c

[cockroachjr.]

I eat fish I catch...especially any good size sea mullet...its going in the cooler. But catch and release stripers and redfish..unless the freezer is empty.:D

[Reelturner]

I also like to eat what I catch. Small to medium blues are good if you bleed them first, and I'd rather bake them like fire says or broil them. To my knowledge, I've never knowingly eaten skate, but if they're used for fake scallops at restaurants, I have.

Around here in East Tennessee, we don't have many bona-fide striped bass. We have white bass and a white-striper "hybrid." I keep hearing everyone say how good stripers are, and I'd love to try them sometime. The whites and the hybrids from the freshwater around here aren't very good at all. My uncle used to like those, but he also ate mud cats, carp, and gar. To each his/her own, I guess.

About the only way I can eat black drum is if they're marinated heavily in something beforehand. I used Italian dressing for the ones my wife and I caught last summer, and they were okay. Personally, I'd rather eat spadefish than black drum.

As for shellfish, I could eat peel-and-eat shrimp very literally all day. I have a mild allergy to shellfish, though, and have to stop at the right time - but it's worth it!!! :)

I've also caught and tried to eat hybirds that friends and I caught in Boone Lake, Tenn. and I couldn' t find anything eating wise that I liked about those. The filets that we ate were fresh and also frozen and not over a couple months old. Next time I go, I will not be bringing any hybirds home to eat. BTW, these fish were cleaned within 2-3 hours after catching them and kept cold also. Now we caught a few smallmouths, and they where very tasty!!

Reelturner

[locktight]

look like everything has been said. I guess that's all we can do along now talk and watch tv (Roland Martin etc.) but want be long the real season will start. If by chance you would like to share in your catch send me an email and I wil take them offyour hands