Favorite Fish

the lone gunman

the lone gunman

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I just took some Trout out of the freezer to cook tonight, ones that I caught this summer. I flour them and fry in my cast iron skillet. I eat more trout than any other fish just because thats what I catch most of. Ive eaten Walleye (the best) and love Catfish also. Perch/ bluegill love em!
Whats your Favorite Fish to eat and how do you prepare it?
 
Kokanee, Steelhead and Halibut...

Usually I smoke the Kokanee. Steelhead I like smoked, as well as cut into steaks and grilled on the BBQ. Halibut is great when simply fried in cast iron with a little oil, or dipped in tempura batter and deep fried.
 
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I really like sturgeon steaks. Stingray when smoked is up there for me too. Hard to deny halibut and sand dabs.


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Bluefish hands down.
Lots and lots of folks hate them.
They have to be handled properly.
Killed and iced immediately.
Never ever frozen.
If they have been eating squid and sand eels (instead of those nasty bunker/menhaden) all the better.

Put them on the grill whole.
Well, first take out the guts, the gills and scale them carefully.
You should be able to hold your hand over the grill for a 4 or 5 count, so cooler than you'd make a steak.
Salt the fish & stop. NOTHING ELSE.
Put it on the grill, flip it carefully when it is 1/2 done.
While it is cooking chop up a bunch of garlic, really fine.
Not just a clove or two... go for it.
And a big handful of parsley. Chop that fine too.
Add it to 1 or 1/2 cup of quality olive oil.
When the fish is done, plate it and immediately pour the garlic/parsley/olive oil over the fish and serve.
My Italian in laws who taught me this would serve it with salad and polenta.

Happy happy happy.
 
Hands down Brook Trout. The other species of trout too, oh wait Sunnies, perch Walleye, Northern Pike. Crappie.....:D
 
Fresh water.......Kokanee, Walleye and Burbot(very underrated or ignored, it is literally a fresh water cod)

Salt water.......Sockeye and Red Spring Salmon(Chinook), Halibut and Snapper
 
1.) Catfish
2.) Flatfish
Both fried, either a salt/pepper/ flour dredge, or add beer + an egg to make a batter.
3.) It has to be boiled cod, served with boiled potatoes and succotash... just because that's our traditional Swedish dinner.
After that -
4.) Any trout cooked with lemon + butter over an open fire, or alternately, in foil on the grille.
5.) A mess of snapper blues - fried. ~ forgot before- instead of water, wet with milk before the flour dredge.
6.) Perch/ bluegill / bass - in that order. Fry 'em up in your cast iron pan in fat, or what have you.
7.) Pickerel / pike - do the Ray Mears de-boning trick and roast or fry.
8.) Add in any crawdads or any crabs + clams you get. I've never caught any of the shrimp, nor squid/ octopus that like so much.
 
No question that my favorite freshwater fish is a trout; probably brown trout (catching, not eating). Have not eaten a trout in years. I throw them all back. I'm not a big fish eater in general. I would only eat a trout I caught if I had to. It would not be for the culinary delight of it.

Last trout that I remember eating was in 1985 at a restaurant in Colombia that specializes in trout.

Eating wise, I guess Walleye but I have only eaten it a couple times. Salmon comes next. Salmon is probably the only freshwater fish I eat any quantity of these days. But I do enjoy eating properly cooked catfish. Basically I like non-fishy fish.
 
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In Florida we have a fish called a SNOOK, my favorite fish to catch and eat, next FLOUNDER, followed by BLACKTIP SHARK.

As others have mentioned it's all about how the fish is handled from the time of catch to the dinner table. I usually cook all of my fish on a grill; and hardly ever will freeze a fish, I like my fish fresh out of the water.

When I catch a small blacktip shark that I want to keep for dinner, I immediately clean the fish (cut off head, pectoral fins, dorsal fin, and remove the guts) and put it on ice. When I get home I cut the carcass up into steaks about 2" thick, put the steaks in a container filled with ice and water, and add one ounce of lemon juice for every pound of meat, I soak the meat overnight. When I'm ready to grill the shark steaks I rinse the meat and let the steaks dry. Fire up the grill and throw the steaks (with the sharkskin on) and cook them for a short time until the meat turns white. When the sharkskin is easy to pull off of the meat, the steaks are done and ready to eat. What is nice about shark is that they only have a vertebrate, no tiny rib bone to worry about.
 
Favorite fish to eat that is caught in my area are redfish, black drum and flounder. Favorite fish to eat that is caught out of my area are copper river king salmon, steelhead and brook trout although my memory of the Artic Graylings my grandfather and I caught & smoked when I was a kid is right up there. The fish that was the most pleasant surprise to eat was a Gaspergou.
 
Trout is the only freshwater fish we regularly eat. They are best when fresh. We love them on the grill when we're camping. Simply gut and clean well, lay a strip or two of bacon inside the trout along with salt and butter, then wrap in foil.
 
I love Spanish Mackerel when cooked well. I grill them with olive oil, lemon juice and lemon pepper. They are also very good fried.
 
I eat a lot of walleye. I'd say it's my favorite along with yellow perch. I usually season with a small amount of lemon pepper or just salt and pepper, then bread with a flour based breading. Fry in a cast iron pan with about 1/4" of canola oil in it.
 
Walleye and sauger are my favorite . After that bluegill , crappie , and largemouth bass. I eat small largemouth bass all the time because that is what I fish for the most. A lot of lakes here have slot limits and keep I the bass just under the slot .
 
My Fav's are the Small Mouth & Large Mouth Bass ---- put in the Oven or Grill them and bake them with seasonings and
such.*
Then I also like to catch Catfish and season them and fry up with Hush/puppies & French Fries or Home Fries and a "Good"
Cole Slaw.!^^
And now that I am good a hungry ~~ I think it is time to eat.*
 
fishiker said:
Trout is the only freshwater fish we regularly eat. They are best when fresh. We love them on the grill when we're camping. Simply gut and clean well, lay a strip or two of bacon inside the trout along with salt and butter, then wrap in foil.
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All these sound good, I do the same with Trout at times (with the bacon).A Few of you mentioned Flounder, The only time I had that it was soooo fishy tasting, I didnt like it, Probably prepared wrong I suppose.
 
The BEST Catfish I ever had was at a place in Florida on the St Johns river Called "The Lone Cabbage" Had deep fried alligator there also, Man that was good.
 
Gulf coast saltwater trout, deep fried w/ Vidalia onion hushpuppies, sweet coleslaw, and ice-cold Landshark.
 
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