So Many Varieties

[Terrierman]

My personal all time favorites:

1.  Sheepshead.  Fried, grilled whatever.

2.  Bluegill - fileted or gutted and scaled fried whole.

3. Walleye filet - deep fried or grilled.

4.  Grilled scaled and gutted Red Snapper.

5.  Fresh grilled salmon cooked medium rare.

6.  A big catfish - blue or flathead - cleaned right, cut into fish fingers and flash fried.

7.  Crappie filets, pan fried whole.

8.  A small deep pan fried whole catfish, bullhead or channel or whatever.  Has to fit in a deep frying pan.

9.  Fish sticks from Dollar General.

[Terrierman]

3 hours ago, MrGiggles said:

I'd put salmon at the top like Wrench, smoked or prepared otherwise. Shark and swordfish are up there too. 

Crappie/walleye after that, but honestly I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between them and say a smaller LMB, white bass, bluegill etc. All white flaky meat, if you cut them into identical sized pieces and prepared them the same way, I doubt I could reliably tell the difference.

I found those frozen Swai/Talapia fillets to be really good, seasoned and baked. So I'd put them in the middle.

Tuna of any kind, kipper snacks/sardines, spoonbill, and channel cat are at the bottom.

Shark and swordfish are right under spoonbill.  Just ahead of swai and tilapia raised in a sewer pond in SE Asia.🤢

[frymorefish]

Oh man....freshwater only ...if salt flounder and spotted sea trout up high

Yellow perch

Walleye

longear sunfish

Bluegill

Green sunfish

Crappie 

Medium lmb/spotted bass in late fall/winter cold water

Salmon

Rock bass (again when water is cold)

White bass (if red meat all removed)

Some channel cat (really variable). Farm raised actually better

 

Yeah somehow restaurants do trout better.

Man for me canned tuna is the nastiest fishiest thing I know of.

[oneshot 1]

23 minutes ago, frymorefish said:

Oh man....freshwater only ...if salt flounder and spotted sea trout up high

Yellow perch

Walleye

longear sunfish

Bluegill

Green sunfish

Crappie 

Medium lmb/spotted bass in late fall/winter cold water

Salmon

Rock bass (again when water is cold)

White bass (if red meat all removed)

Some channel cat (really variable). Farm raised actually better

 

Yeah somehow restaurants do trout better.

Man for me canned tuna is the nastiest fishiest thing I know of.

I started fixing Trout different and has been good. 

Goggle Eye now have be 7 inches now here. 

Have ate nasty Catfish at Dowdes.

oneshot 

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

I've never eaten Crappie, I liked the walleye filled I had at Yellowstone Grill in Chesterfield, MO . Can't say I would go crazy to get it. I really prefer fresh catfish over all. Fresh bluegill and bass are really good also as well. Trout is good as well as salmon, tuna is a good ol standby similar to peanut butter and jelly.

[Terrierman]

1 minute ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said:

I've never eaten Crappie, I liked the walleye filled I had at Yellowstone Grill in Chesterfield, MO . Can't say I would go crazy to get it. I really prefer fresh catfish over all. Fresh bluegill and bass are really good also as well. Trout is good as well as salmon, tuna is a good ol standby similar to peanut butter and jelly.

It's hard for me to imagine anyone who fishes, catches, cleans and eats fish has never had crappie!!!!!!!

[Quillback]

Used to catch and smoke salmon and that would be at the top of my list.

Blue cats from Grand lake - They are excellent.

Haddock

Flounder

Swordfish

Ahi - charred on the outside, red in the middle

Bluegill fillets

Yellow perch - I have eaten perch and walleye side by side, and the perch were better

Walleye

Crappie

Lingcod 

Black sea bass

Eel (unagi) served at a Japanese restaurant

I once ate blackened sturgeon at a place in Portland OR, it was really good.  I caught my own when I lived in WA, but never could make sturgeon taste as good as that one time I had it in Portland.

Fried smelt.

Tuna - I bet I eat canned tuna once a week

12" spotted bass fillets

Blue shark - not bad on the grill

And last on the list - trout.  I've had some good campfire trout, but I was really hungry.

[Terrierman]

I'd forgotten Unagi.  Shame on me.

And you're right about a flounder.  Fresh done well it's as good as good gets.

Swordfish?  you can have all of mine.

[Ryan Miloshewski]

Everybody likes walleye because it's a novelty not readily caught. It's a flaky white fish..good, but highly overrated. Same with crappie. Crappie is just a flaky white fish. Just fine, but not the best. Sometimes I think people like crappie and walleye because of the lack of flavor.

Bluegill and white bass are way better than those two. Also, any saltwater fish will blow a freshwater fish out of the water nine times out of ten. 

[Ryan Miloshewski]

18 minutes ago, Quillback said:

And last on the list - trout.  I've had some good campfire trout, but I was really hungry.

Tend to agree, but this was one of the best meals I've had. On the Niangua couple winters ago.