shrapnel Posted December 22, 2017 Posted December 22, 2017 Crappie has ZERO taste period. It tastes like whatever you season it with. Not a bad thing, it is a clean, white meat. I'm just not crazy about how soft, borderline mushy the texture can be if not cooked perfect. White Bass on the other hand are a much firmer meat, hold together a lot better and have some actual flavor but I would NOT consider it fishy at all. Crappie you can just mush around with your tongue and swallow, White's you actually need to chew a bit. Shave the red meat off, cut out the blood line or whatever it is and it's great piece of meat. Bluegill has a flavor, I much prefer it to crappie and it's also not as mushy. I think Crappie's popularity as a game fish and table fare is because it's the dumbest, easiest fish to catch that swims in any body of water. Mitch where are you catching your white's? I have had some out of the Mississippi River that I did think were a bit fishy tasting. stuartsx5 and fishinwrench 2
fishinwrench Posted December 22, 2017 Posted December 22, 2017 The other thing about crappie is that there isn't a teaspoon full of meat difference between the fillet from a 10 incher and a 13 incher. Their heads and tails get bigger but the chunk of meat, after all the water is cooked out of it, is the same dang size.
Basfis Posted December 22, 2017 Posted December 22, 2017 Wrench, you are starting to sound like an advocate for whites like one here is for carp.... Berating crappie won’t make whites any better... Johnsfolly and BilletHead 1 1
Flysmallie Posted December 22, 2017 Posted December 22, 2017 1 minute ago, Basfis said: Wrench, you are starting to sound like an advocate for whites like one here is for carp.... Except....... Wrench provides a lot of useful information. Both on fishing and boat repair. Wrench also actually fishes and probably does it better than most on here. Plus he's not a dick like HoCarp. Basfis, grizwilson, BilletHead and 1 other 2 2
fishinwrench Posted December 22, 2017 Posted December 22, 2017 3 minutes ago, Basfis said: Wrench, you are starting to sound like an advocate for whites like one here is for carp.... Berating crappie won’t make whites any better... I'm just trying to understand how/why so many guys get all batshit crazy over chasing crappie. I mean there are tons of people who do it year 'round, and it's the only fish they even care about. Seems like a boring life to me, I just wanna help them recover from it so they can live happier. Basfis 1
fishinwrench Posted December 22, 2017 Posted December 22, 2017 Also, whenever there's talk of Whites there's always a bunch of guys that wanna compare them to crappie. That's like comparing the asses of Ellen DeGeneres and Kim Kardashian.
Basfis Posted December 22, 2017 Posted December 22, 2017 Like the analogy...if it’s eating preference which way are you intending it??? Kim is a crappie?
Mitch f Posted December 22, 2017 Posted December 22, 2017 27 minutes ago, fishinwrench said: Also, whenever there's talk of Whites there's always a bunch of guys that wanna compare them to crappie. That's like comparing the asses of Ellen DeGeneres and Kim Kardashian. Both are skanks BilletHead and Flysmallie 1 1 "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
fishinwrench Posted December 22, 2017 Posted December 22, 2017 3 minutes ago, Mitch f said: Both are skanks We're talking asses here, not brains. Once you connect the two there's no way to win.
fishinwrench Posted December 22, 2017 Posted December 22, 2017 30 minutes ago, Basfis said: Like the analogy...if it’s eating preference which way are you intending it??? Kim is a crappie? Kim's posterior is like a White bass. Some think it's too fishy tasting, but that's only because they are doing it wrong. We'd better quit Flysmallie 1
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