Whats your favorate fish?

mrs.puff

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The best fish I ever ate was a buffalo carp. I was out below the dam of our local reservoir and a couple of my students were out bowfishing. They hit a ton of regular german carp, and one 17lb buffalo that they gave to me. I pressure cooked the giant fillets (with some bones still in) for a few minutes, then flaked off the meat and made fish cakes. They were delicious.

My second favorite fish is bullheads. They're fun to catch and good to eat!
 

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My favorite to catch is channel catfish, then bass and trout. My favorite to eat is channel catfish. I hate stocked trout and bullheads.
 

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crappie(pronounced as crap-e)
Really? I have always heard it pronounced crop-ee

I guess maybe that's a regional difference?



mmmmm channel cat..... Catfish is the only fish that I have ever eaten that I like.
 

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My favorite is perch, trout or salmon. We catch a lot of bluegill, sunfish, perch, trout in Pymatuming.

Crappie - we pronounce it crop-ee here.
 

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Weirdly, the best fish I ever had was when I was in grad school taking Ichthyology. As you can imagine, seining etc for Educational Material produced a considerable supply of food :p and on one trip in particular, along the NC coast, we deliberately set up a taste-test at the end of the day. There were like fifteen plus kinds of (ocean and brackishwater) fish, I forget what all. The professor grilled 'em all on a fine-mesh grill on the BBQ. Being an ichthyologist he was a pretty good fish chef <g>

The winner, hands-down? Lizard fish. I'd look up the latin name if I thought anyone cared :p but it's a total trash fish, normally thrown back in disgust. Looks sort of like a sucker, but with lots of pointy teeth. Bony as all heck, but very thin bones that you can eat. MAN was it ever tasty.

Moral of the story - don't assume that fisherman lore *necessarily* distinguishes correctly between things worth eating and things not worth eating :)


Pat
 

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Hi! I am a fish-a-holic!


My fav. fish would have to be Bluegill!!!!! Thens catfish, then trout.



If anyone needs helpwith making lures, ask me.
 
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