So Many Varieties

[oneshot 1]

39 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

Most fish can be made pretty tasty or just plain nasty depending on who is cooking and how they do it.  Plus everyone has their preferences.  Some are just dang hard to make "good" others are hard to make "bad" but even crappie bluegill and walleye can be ruined.  And while I might like a blackened grilled catfish fillet my wife absolutely hates catfish.  Mostly because she had some bad ones as a kid and no amount of properly prepared catfish will change her mind.  Although she has eaten a few cut up and fried with crappie and never knew.

My wife cooked up some that was great.  Next time she didn't use any Salt. It tasted like crap to me.  She said don't need Salt. ??? Dear fish needs Salt!

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[Ryan Miloshewski]

16 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

I'm with ya 100%

Crappie and walleye taste like whatever you breaded them in.   There may be a little protein there, but flavor-wise you might as well just be eating hushpuppies.   

Trout are good, foil baked in a campfire, mostly because you are starving and that just happens to be what's for dinner. 😅  A couple of hotdogs would be equally satisfying.

I kept and cooked wild trout, expecting that they'd be so much better than the white meat stockers I had eaten many times before.......but No, not really.   

White bass & Stripers, whether fried or baked.....really hit the spot for me. Delicious 😋

I really like whites and stripers, too. Some people hate em. Generally the people who love crappie and walleye . How could I forget a fresh sucker from a cold, Ozark stream? That may be numero uno.

[netboy]

Speaking of suckers, there are a ton of them here in the White River below Bull Shoals and I have never seen anyone fishing for them or trying to gig them at night. Strange that they are popular in Missouri rivers, but not down here. I would like to try one sometime but have no clue how to catch them. They don't pay any attention to my flies.

[Beasley]

They will eat a small piece of worm threaded on a hook. Use to catch a. Bunch as a kid fishing the creeks. 

[netboy]

26 minutes ago, Beasley said:

They will eat a small piece of worm threaded on a hook. Use to catch a. Bunch as a kid fishing the creeks. 

Thanks, I'll give that a try soon.

[Quillback]

Forgot about Stripers, Whites and hybirds - they are pretty much all the same to me.  I can eat them, but not my favorites, I'll usually release them.  

I have some neighbors that I will give a striper to one of these days, after I fillet it, they want some fish, and they aren't fishermen so they have no pre-conceived notions on the edibility or tastiness of fresh water fish.  I'll see what they think of it.

[oneshot 1]

9 hours ago, netboy said:

Speaking of suckers, there are a ton of them here in the White River below Bull Shoals and I have never seen anyone fishing for them or trying to gig them at night. Strange that they are popular in Missouri rivers, but not down here. I would like to try one sometime but have no clue how to catch them. They don't pay any attention to my flies.

I use size 6 J Hook with about half a Night Crawler, fish one the bottom.

Fixing them. Scale them, filet, score by making cut to but not through the skin.

Use seasoned Corn Meal only,  make sure you get the Corn Meal between all the cuts, fry Hot.

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[MrGiggles]

On 1/20/2023 at 5:06 PM, Terrierman said:

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

And chickens will happily pick through their own "litter" but you don't hear many complaints when folks are wolfing down buffalo wings. 

[Terrierman]

9 minutes ago, MrGiggles said:

And chickens will happily pick through their own "litter" but you don't hear many complaints when folks are wolfing down buffalo wings. 

Thing is, I like buffalo wings.  But not shark, swordfish, tilapia and most swai.

[tjm]

23 hours ago, netboy said:

Speaking of suckers, there are a ton of them here in the White River below Bull Shoals and I have never seen anyone fishing for them or trying to gig them at night. Strange that they are popular in Missouri rivers, but not down here. I would like to try one sometime but have no clue how to catch them. They don't pay any attention to my flies.

The way we caught them when I was a kid was by "grabbing". where large treble hook was fixed several inches above a large sinker and a sighter rag attached that let the angler see where the hook was in relation to the fish, then when all lined up a lift of the pole pulled the "grab hook" into the fish. Snagging in modern terms I guess. They would let all the boys leave school when the redhorse run started and we would wade and drive the fish back and forth past the grabbers.

Dad  and his friend would also gig them by wading at night using either carbide miners lights or a car battery in a wash tub connected to a head light from the tractor. My job to push the tub, which also held the fish. Gigging was not a winter time thing like it is now. No gigger I knew of used a boat.

They will eat worms and nymphs as oneshot described, but they can spit faster than we see if they don't like the taste of the hook.