What the best tasting fish?

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Re: What the best tasting fish?

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Fresh water - bluegills corn meal and bacon grease
Salt water - grilled wahoo

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In order:
Freshwater: crappie, bluegill, catfish (wild)
Saltwater: Ling(lemonfish), red snapper, flounder

Farm raised fish are just barely this side of no-fish-at-all in my books.

IMHO, the filleting of bluegill and crappie should be outlawed; especially in light of a cleaning/cooking method that produces bone-free fillets.

The procedure is to first scale the fish, then make one long diagonal cut from just behind the head to just behind the vent. Said cut will remove the pelvic and pectoral fins, and the viscera. Batter and deep fry. Once done, and while still warm, grasp either the anal or dorsal fin (order is of no consequence) at the back and pull forward.This will remove these fins, as well as their internal support bones. Next, grasp the body at both the head end and and at the base of the tail. Push the head end towards the tail and slowly twist, all in one slow smooth movement. Voila'! You should now have two completely boneless fillets on your plate, and the tail fin, vertebral column and all of the ribs, still attached to the spine, in one nice neat package for disposal.

Bon Appetit'!

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Crappie!! Ever see one of those Saturday TV fisherman put one back?

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Any Salmon or Steelhead are always at the top of the list.

For true salt water sport fish: Mahi Mahi, and Red Fish from the Gulf.

Red fish are quite sporting, especially caught with a fly.

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Monkfish,Turbot,Dover sole,Sea Bass,
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Freshwater - Yellow Perch from 45th parallel, north
Saltwater - Grilled Kingclip or Wahoo/Ono
Baked - Red Snapper w/ Crawfish stuffing

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Crappie...Did you ever see one of those TV fishing guys release one? No, they went to the live well for later consumption. :D
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Anything you or your kid catch yourselves!

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Raw Bluefish with thin sliced onions and lime juice!!!
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I don't like most fish makes it easy to release fish. ,I like saltwater fish for sushi, bluefin tuna, albacore, snapper, triggerfish.
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freestoner wrote:Brookies are tough to beat. ... Sleeper species- chain pickerel. As long as you skin them, instead of just scaling them. Don't bother with fillets. Cut the flesh off the bones (considerable) into strips, and cook them like fritters.
Since this thread has come back to life...I ditto the sleeper species. I make a trip or two out to east Texas for just pickerel fishing. Crazy fun and you get to use old old school flies like micky finns. I do just scale them, I don't fillet them but cook them up like trout. The meat will peel off the bones (if they are biggern 14" or so) I crazy delicious!
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Re: What the best tasting fish?

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Walleye, closely followed by European Yellow Perch. Alaskan Hallibut is a distant third

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Made some Alaskan Black Cod with a miso glaze a few days back. First time in almost 20 years I heard the wife said "delicious".
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013 ... k-cod.html

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Another vote for Walleye aka Zander!!!
Saltwater: spanish mackerel, mahi mahi. Best cold smoked fish I have ever eaten was a Striped Marlin, caught by a friend in NZ and freshly smoked and eaten. Fantastic!!

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Grayling smoked or salted

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aged_sage wrote:...The procedure is to first scale the fish, then make one long diagonal cut from just behind the head to just behind the vent. Said cut will remove the pelvic and pectoral fins, and the viscera. Batter and deep fry. Once done, and while still warm, grasp either the anal or dorsal fin (order is of no consequence) at the back and pull forward.This will remove these fins, as well as their internal support bones. Next, grasp the body at both the head end and and at the base of the tail. Push the head end towards the tail and slowly twist, all in one slow smooth movement. Voila'! You should now have two completely boneless fillets on your plate, and the tail fin, vertebral column and all of the ribs, still attached to the spine, in one nice neat package for disposal.

Bon Appetit'!
The bones also add a deeper, yet not stronger flavor, as well. The one exception to not filleting bluegills is for bluegill soup. Hmmm, delicious.
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Cod is at the top of my list. Cheeks, tongues or fillets it's the very best.

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Bluegill, hands down
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Re: What the best tasting fish?

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White Chinook eaten raw, and Dolly Varden.

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Silver rat wrote:Cod is at the top of my list. Cheeks, tongues or fillets it's the very best.
Ah-haaa!
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Re: What the best tasting fish?

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Wahoo
Brook trout

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