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Title: Favorite eating fish
Post by: TroutFishingBear on Mar 26, 2004, 06:06 PM: 2 part question
a) fav. trout to eat (excluding brookies)
b) fav. whitemeated fish to eat

a) brown trout because they are less greasy-tasting than other trout and have a sharper taste.

b) walleye because they taste the same as perch, yet they are bigger and you can cook them in different ways that you can't perch because of their limited size.
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: Cider on Mar 26, 2004, 09:56 PM: Why do you exclude brookies? Because they are a char and not a trout?

I love brookies as my first favorite fish. Salmon run a close second. Rainbows are best smoked, browns are best released but baked if you are hard pressed to eat a trout! Lakers are good baked whole or blackened on the grill.

Cusk (eelpout, burbot) are awesome fish to eat! You have simply got to eat one if you haven't already. Channel cats are delicious and brown bullhead are fantastic.

Yellow perch and walleye are good too.
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: Smelt1 on Mar 27, 2004, 09:06 AM: Rainbows are my fav. trout and as far as white meat fish go I live on the atlantic ocean so I have my pick of the best. Flounder & haddock
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: livin4ice on Mar 27, 2004, 09:13 AM: 1. Rainbows

2. a. Walleye b. perch
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: icefishnh on Mar 27, 2004, 09:15 AM: there's nothing like a fresh fillet of bass(esp caught through the ice)...fry em up then spirinkle salt and pepper on it....o man im getting hungry for fish!!!
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: TroutFishingBear on Mar 27, 2004, 06:48 PM: Quote from: Cider on Mar 26, 2004, 09:56 PM
Why do you exclude brookies? Because they are a char and not a trout?

Because I thought that everyone would pick them because, obviously, they taste the best to most people, so I wanted varied results.
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: reubenpa on Mar 27, 2004, 08:26 PM: haven't been able to eat a bow or brown that was not stocked a week before, so my fav trout is a laker!!! I am serious, next would be crappie, then perch/gills
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: wny angler on Mar 27, 2004, 09:11 PM: halubit - haddock-mahi mahi
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: fishboy899 on Mar 29, 2004, 07:30 PM: a) Rainbows- dont keep to many trout so i havent eaten many besides rainbows.

b) Walleye and all types of panfish.
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: red_eyes on Mar 29, 2004, 08:39 PM: 1.rainbows and natives
2. a)perch b)walleye
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: Cider on Mar 29, 2004, 09:18 PM: Cornbread stuffed whole lake trout oven baked in viognier white wine with lemon slices, shallots, carrots, and celery...

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It was supposed to be served with long-grain wild rice blend, but we forgot it on the stove! :P

Can't take credit for the recipe. If you want to try it, pick up a copy of LL Bean's Fish and Game cookbook. Look under the lake trout section in the middle of the book. It is the first recipe listed in this section.
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: broken rod on Mar 29, 2004, 09:21 PM: you guys have to stop posting all the pictures of food your making me fat ;D
and not to mention all the fish your going to make me start keeping lol ;D
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: DIRTBALL2 on Apr 01, 2004, 08:07 AM: (1) Planked Trout. You can use rainbows or browns, but my favorite is lake trout. Fillet the trout and tack it to a small piece of board just long enough to hold the fillet. Be sure you use a board from a non-coniferus tree, otherwise you will get a taste you won't enjoy. Rub the fillet with butter, lightly salt and pepper to taste. Stick the board in the ground right next to your campfire with the top angled slightly away from the fire. While the fish is cooking(10 to 15 min) baste it occasionally with orange juice, to which you have added a small amount of white wine and ground ginger. Test with a fork to see if the meat will flake easily. Then you throw the fish away and eat the board!!!!!!!!! ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) Seriously, my favorite is a nice fat walleye that was still swimming a half hour before you put him in the frying pan. Dip the fillet in beaten egg, roll it in potato flakes and deep fry it in half butter and half bacon drippings. Eat like a king!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: Somers on Apr 02, 2004, 12:19 PM: I'm over simplifying a bit here, but

a. any trout (including brookies), as long as they aren't stockies...why all the downs on browns?

b. most white fleshed fish, but eyes, crappies, perch, stripers, fluke, flounder, and blackfish best of all.
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: TroutFishingBear on Apr 08, 2004, 05:58 PM: Quote from: Cider on Mar 29, 2004, 09:18 PM
Cornbread stuffed whole lake trout oven baked in viognier white wine with lemon slices, shallots, carrots, and celery...

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It was supposed to be served with long-grain wild rice blend, but we forgot it on the stove! :P

Can't take credit for the recipe. If you want to try it, pick up a copy of LL Bean's Fish and Game cookbook. Look under the lake trout section in the middle of the book. It is the first recipe listed in this section.

Cider, if your doing this cooking I'm going to have to force you to my state and cook for me at gunpoint!!! ;)

Lake trout do taste excellent when cooked correctly.
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: Liar on Apr 11, 2004, 11:39 AM: Does anyone have a receipe for smallies ???? Or are they caughtjust for the fun ??????

Thanks :-\
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: ChenBassHead on Apr 11, 2004, 06:17 PM: I don't eat trout very much, but if I have to exclude brookies, I'd say browns. Not a real fan of trout, but they're okay once in a while.

As far as the others, I'd say that perch and pike are my #1 & #2. Fresh pike is the best, especially in the spring, from the St Lawrence River. Mmmmmmmmm....

-Zach
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: howey1176 on Apr 14, 2004, 10:27 PM: Quote from: livin4ice on Mar 27, 2004, 09:13 AM
1. Rainbows

2. a. Walleye b. perch

Same here :)
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: docbas on Apr 15, 2004, 08:02 PM: A tie for me: Walleyes, perch, bluegills, crappie
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: jmasotto on Jun 07, 2004, 10:52 PM: :D :D :D :DCRAPPIE!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: bayonne on Jun 14, 2004, 10:41 PM: fresh warter its crappie salt warter its black fish
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: slipbob on Jun 15, 2004, 08:57 AM: Quote from: Liar on Apr 11, 2004, 11:39 AM

Does anyone have a receipe for smallies ???? Or are they caughtjust for the fun ??????

Thanks :-\

Smallie taste pretty bad as do most bass but you gotta go yellow perch, bluegill, walleye, crappie in that order for me.
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: TimC1086 on Aug 23, 2004, 04:34 PM: rainbows smoked on the grill,

crappie cooked on the grill in foil with butter
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: perchfisher on Aug 23, 2004, 05:02 PM: 1 never tried
2 PERCH!!!!!
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: devil-man on Sep 24, 2004, 01:25 AM: We had a big bluegill filet fry tonight. A lot of work, but pretty d**n good!
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: Pasquatch on Mar 13, 2005, 08:30 PM: Lake Trout

Yellow Perch, and Walleye :laugh:
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: Kodiak Commando on Mar 13, 2005, 10:23 PM: Halibut and lingcod
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: bassjunky on Mar 22, 2005, 11:25 AM: I guess you have to stick to what you catch eh.

1) Rainbows and Laker
2) Walleyes and Perch (whatever i pull threw the ice or on the boat
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: Hood on Apr 05, 2005, 08:51 PM: Black n' Blue Tuna...Striper
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Post by: PERCH INC. on Apr 08, 2005, 01:10 AM: Native Browns --- Jack PERCH and gills!!!!
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Post by: AD on Apr 12, 2005, 12:11 PM: Halibut or Northern Pike are my fav's
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: cnyfishing on Apr 12, 2005, 02:28 PM: Salmon
and perch or pike
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: bigdave1018 on Apr 12, 2005, 06:07 PM: pumpkinseeds followed real close by gills, perch and callies. any of these between 6 inches and a foot are the best eating fish period, no questions asked!!!!!
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: Mackdaddy21 on Jun 02, 2005, 07:34 PM: I have to pick any trout that has very red/orange meat. Usually around here that is brookies, but the browns from blue mesa reservoir have meat that is just as orange.
Fantastic eating, especially grilled or if fried, fried in bacon oil.
I like walleyes best for any white meated fish, but pike, crappie, and perch taste really good. Catfish and bass are okay but are softer and fatter.
Most all fish are best fried in my mind. I don't like filleting trout, I just pick the meat off the bones. Walleyes and other fish must be filleted and skinned.
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: perchfisher on Jun 03, 2005, 11:12 AM: for panfish(perch, gills, crappie etc.) i use this special tool to descale them( a sharp knife works as well) and take all the scales of but leave the skin on, then cut of the head. It is a good way to get alot of meat off of them. after frying u can easily pull the fins and backbone out so there is little for bones left but ALOT of meat.
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: fishaholic1970 on Jun 17, 2005, 07:03 AM: Blue Gill , Yellow Perch , Walleye , Crappie, Northern Pike , Smoked Salmon or Grilled with Lemon juice
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: big walleye on Jul 08, 2005, 11:56 AM: Walleye is still number 1 with channel cat being a close second.
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: Hood on Jul 08, 2005, 03:56 PM: Mack- I used to do the whole trout thing and pick the bones off but I have recently been filleting them and rolling them in crumbs then fryin em up and what a difference it has made, It may be that i like the crunchiness better but once i get the fillets boneless with a quick swipe of the knife its all worth it. I fillet it similar to a pike and cut as close to either side of the bones as possible and have one fat fillet and one skinny strip from the top of the back. Give it a whirl some time :) Skinning is optional, sometimes i do sometimes I dont, rainbows have larger scales than brookies so i always skin them :flex:
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: gillmaniac on Jul 08, 2005, 09:22 PM: 1) rainbow because it is the only trout i ever ate. 2) either gills or crappie or perch.

gill
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: TroutSlayer on Jul 20, 2005, 07:34 PM: It's hard to beat the taste of Speckled Trout caught, cleaned and cooked over a hard wood fire, all within half an hour. :D

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Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: CRANKY on Sep 26, 2005, 04:49 PM: don't eat trout unless it was caught while icefishing, something about cold clean water
walleyes, smallies and pike make wonderful shore lunch
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: shrub on Sep 26, 2005, 08:12 PM: fresh water, that would have to be crappie, havent tried walleye yet and salt water would definty be tuna steaks
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: mrwalleye on Oct 20, 2005, 09:49 AM: Quote from: TroutFishingBear on Mar 26, 2004, 06:06 PM
2 part question
a) fav. trout to eat (excluding brookies)
b) fav. whitemeated fish to eat

a) brown trout because they are less greasy-tasting than other trout and have a sharper taste.

b) walleye because they taste the same as perch, yet they are bigger and you can cook them in different ways that you can't perch because of their limited size.

i dont fish for trout.
i like walleye, but am perfectly happy catching good combo of gills, crappie, perch. thats ideal for me. few of each, and im eatin good. i used to chase walleye all day, finally i learned to fish for the panfish during daylight, and the walleyes at sundown.
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: Hookset on Oct 20, 2005, 01:16 PM: The only fish I eat are Swedish Fish (you know, the jelly kind, not actually fish from Sweden).
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: TroutSlayer on Nov 07, 2005, 04:35 PM: Quote from: CRANKY on Sep 26, 2005, 04:49 PM
don't eat trout unless it was caught while icefishing, something about cold clean water
walleyes, smallies and pike make wonderful shore lunch

That's the thing with Brook Trout, they only live in cold clean water. I've measured the temperature of a pool in the river on a May trip, and the temperature below the ice in 12 fow during March. They were the same!
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: bear on Nov 30, 2005, 10:30 AM: I don't like trout. Walleye is the best but I keep gills, crappie and catfish.
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: whiskey on Dec 01, 2005, 01:17 AM: My favorite eating fish will not be found in water, , , ,unless your at the beach. The second favorite fish would be a tie between either a Jack Salmon or Burbot. It makes me HUNGRY just thinking it, , , , , oh and the fish too, :w00t:
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: Big Burk on Apr 04, 2006, 06:54 PM: Perch and walleye all the way... but if how good burbot and rock bass are known to taste then it could very well change :D
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: pirkaus on Apr 23, 2006, 04:31 PM: Rainbow trout a little cornmeal then "boil" in butter
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Post by: 1tigger on May 19, 2006, 08:44 PM: Crappi , Smelt , Bass , Pike and in that order !
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Post by: hookemandcookem on May 22, 2006, 02:48 AM: Crappie, Bass, bluegill in that order
Title: Re: Favorite eating fish
Post by: tracker16 on Jun 02, 2006, 08:18 AM: Its tough to beat perch or walleye caught through the ice.