Keeping some fish to eat
My neighbor is retired...totally retired :). He is also an avid
fisherman! Yesterday I was working in the back yard and he was on his
patio cooking something....deep frying some fresh fish he brought home!
We talked fishing for a few mnutes, then I went back to working. About
15 minutes later his wife brought me over a plate....deep fried fish,
coleslaw, beans, and hot buttered cornbread, I thought I had died and
gone to heaven :)! I usually leave the fish I catch at the lake, but
next time out, I think I will bring a few of the critters home with me
<grin>!
JK |
jbkbub
May 26
2004
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| Nothing wrong with that... but was it bass that he caught? I don't really
know of anyone that eats bass and I don't know if it's the best eating.
Perhaps they were crappie that he caught... and now we all know what part of
the country I'm in :). Personally, I just eat saltwater fish. Now that's some good eats. |
Todd
May 26
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| Eating. That's what God put them here for. Mark McCoy<br>
McCoy's Market Bumpus Mills, Tennessee<br>
http://www.mccoysmarket.com |
mmccoy01
May 27
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| Bass filets are excellent - hard to beat as far as I am concerned.
Ronnie
fishing.guide@about.com
http://fishing.about.com |
rgarri7470
May 27
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| Re: Keeping some fish to eat
Group: rec.outdoors.fishing.bass Date: Wed, May 26, 2004, 11:01pm
(CDT+5) From: todd@copelandhome.net (Todd=A0Copeland)
Nothing wrong with that... but was it bass that he caught? I don't
really know of anyone that eats bass and I don't know if it's the best
eating. Perhaps they were crappie that he caught... and now we all know
what part of the country I'm in :).
Personally, I just eat saltwater fish. Now that's some good eats.
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
They were crappie and bass, and before my son finally convinced me to
catch and release, I ate many a fillet of bass...mghty fine eatin!
JK "John Kerr" <jbkbub@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:12754-40B51999-73@storefull-3213.bay.webtv.net...
My neighbor is retired...totally retired :). He is also an avid
fisherman! Yesterday I was working in the back yard and he was on his
patio cooking something....deep frying some fresh fish he brought home!
We talked fishing for a few mnutes, then I went back to working. About
15 minutes later his wife brought me over a plate....deep fried fish,
coleslaw, beans, and hot buttered cornbread, I thought I had died and
gone to heaven :)! I usually leave the fish I catch at the lake, but
next time out, I think I will bring a few of the critters home with me |
jbkbub
May 26
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| Re: Keeping some fish to eat
Eating. That's what God put them here for.
Mark McCoy
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I agree whole heartedly Mark, just been awhile since I had some fresh
fish :). I use to supply the neighborhood with fresh fish when I lived
in Pensacola...went Gulf fishing almost everyday I was off work, Red
fish (channel bass), red snapper, and my all time favorite pompino (sp)
:).
JK |
jbkbub
May 26
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| "Hard to beat"? I can name two dozen better fish to eat and about half of them
are freshwater. Crappie, one of my favorite, was already mentioned. How do you
rate walleye, perch, catfish, etc? Dan |
Dan
May 27
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| I use to believe that until someone convinced me I was cleaning them wrong.
I no longer scale them. I fillet them with an electric knife and cut the
skin off. What a difference! Now if those bass are over 14" and under 4 lbs,
they get et! Don't get me wrong, Crappie are still hard to beat.
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IBNFSHN
May 26
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| Very Cool John! While I practice catch & release, I appreciate those that
catch and keep the 14" to 18" bass. The bass population needs to be thinned
out too. Otherwise the bass in that body of water will continue to get
smaller and smaller as the population grows. So by taking your legal limit.
you are actually helping the small bass to survive better (because of less
competition) and allowing the bigger bass to get bigger.
|
Craig
May 27
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| I know of some who keep the fish and give them to Orientals. I also know of a
gal who asks anglers for fish. I know a guy who keeps fish and doesn't even
take out a fishing license.
I like fish but would prefer not to have them deep fried. I think i would
rather eat freshly caught fish rather than canned salmon. |
lurebuilder
May 27
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| Perch filets are also good. Pickerel is a tasty fish if you have the
patience to debone. But there is absolutely, without question, nothing
better than native brook trout. |
jbuck41
May 26
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| I dunno. Bluegill are awfully good.
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Bob
May 26
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| Good point Craig, I have this small lake near me with no pressure other than |
alwaysfishking
May 26
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| Couldn't make me eat a trout. I remember liking the taste of bass, but they
are worth far more to me in the lake than in the pan or stomach, and I
haven't killed one to eat in maybe two decades. In fresh water, crappie are
tops in my book, followed by walleye, yellow perch, bluegill & channel cat. My wife on the other hand, likes kokanee salmon, any other salmon, crappie,
walleye, then brook or rainbow trout. Still, I prefer flounder to any of them, and cod to most. RichZ©
www.richz.com/fishing |
RichZ
May 27
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| I was talking to someone today at work about fishing and stated that I only
caught and released fish. I failed to remember that there was a co-worker near
by who is a total vegitarian. She, we know eachother, came right over and said
"Dan,
you know that phrase should be changed to injured and released with a big hole
in it`s mouth from the hook." I wanted to laugh out loud at that.....but she
is the daughter of the company owner. I let it go though. Then wondered how
do large mouth bass know to jump out of the water and try to throw the hook.
They all seem to know how to do this.
Dan. |
mason121
May 27
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| I haven't kept a fish in over 15 years for no other reason than it's more
trouble storing, transporting, cleaning and cooking than it's worth to me.
Perch, sunfish and walleye are good, I always thought largemouth tasted like
garbage, but maybe it was my lack of culinary skills. ROEB...rec.outdoors.eating.bass |
Marty
May 27
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| Trout is not one of my preferred foods. Maybe the fact 50 years ago, I
ended up at the Herrick Hospital ER with a trout bone stuck in the throat.
And they could not get it out. Pushed it deeper. May still be there
waiting to get me. I like the white meat fish better.
Bill |
Calif
May 27
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| <there is absolutely, without question, nothing better than native brook
trout> <Couldn't make me eat a trout> Wow. Can't fathom that, but to each his own. :)
<Still, I prefer flounder to any of them, and cod to most> Cod, eh? How about mackerel or striper? I'm not a fan of mackerel...way
too oily, though they're a kick to catch on a Xmas tree. Striper's good.
If I couldn't have a brook trout, I'd settle for swordfish. |
jbuck41
May 27
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| <She, *snip* came right over and said "Dan, you know that phrase should
be changed to injured and released with a big hole in it`s mouth from
the hook." I wanted to laugh out loud at that.....but she is the
daughter of the company owner. I let it go though> Doncha just hate not being able to put an idiot in their place just 'cos
they're the daughter of the boss? LoL |
jbuck41
May 27
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| I've always followed the practice of keeping a few sunfish or perch every now
and then, to control the population a bit. These days I have a simple rule of
thumb: If the fish is hooked in the lip or jaw, it gets released. If its
hooked in the gills and bleeding, it gets kept. (this is mostly for trout, as
they tend to go belly up if hooked in the gils and released.)
As far as eating quality, yellow perch and chain pickerel are tops for me,
with crappie, rock bass, bluegil, pumkinseed sunfish also being good. But I
think the body of water the fish comes out of can greatly affect the table
quality. The best tasteing fish I have ever eaten have come from clean, clear
mountain lakes or streams. Fish from murky, algae-infested, or other wise
discolored waters vary from barely OK to downright aweful. -Zimmy |
duckhunter4570
May 27
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| LOL!!! This is coming from the same woman that probably has pierced ears,
and possibly other things as well! Bass, as well as other fish don't have a brain developed enough to feel
pain, so they really don't "know" to jump and throw the hook. They're
simply reacting to the tethering action of the line. |
Steve
May 27
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| I can appreciate anyone that follows whatever the regs are on the body of
water they happen to be fishing. If someone wants to creel a 5-lb bass, so
long as it's legal, fine with me. As for trout, if you're fishing for small brook trout with treble-hook
spinners, there's a reasonable chance that the outcome will be the same if
you release or eat that fish. FWIW, I'd rather see a fish eaten than thrown back after showing up dead at
weigh-in. Frankly, a C & R vs C & Eat discussion seems a little hollow
after the thread discussing how many fish are dead by weigh in. Scott |
Scott
May 27
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| My goal is always to bring home fish to eat. Most of my fishing though is
crappie, saugeye, and bluegill. I don't specifically target bass, but I
have kept a few of the legal ones from time to time. I also love Salmon
from my once a year trip to Manistee. Jeff |
Jeff
May 27
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| I like bass better than crappie or cats - all the walleye I have eaten were
good, but no better than bass. And we don't eat much perch here - they don't
generally get big enough, if you are talking yellow perch.
Ronnie
fishing.guide@about.com
http://fishing.about.com |
rgarri7470
May 27
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| At the endo of most club tournaments I fish there are some dead fish - and on
some of our lakes the fisheries biologists say we need to keep all the spotted
bass we catch. Those are what I usually eat. I made a personal rule back in the early 1970s, before catch and release got to
be a fanatical religion, that I would not keep a bass over 2 pounds. The
smaller ones are better, anyway, and that size bass here in the south has less
than a 25 percent chance of survival for a year regardless of fishing pressure.
Ronnie
fishing.guide@about.com
http://fishing.about.com |
rgarri7470
May 27
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| Cod? Love cod, catching and eating, nothing out there I'd rather have than a
good cod fillet, Now where are those cod pictures I have!!!! |
alwaysfishking
May 27
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| Perch are fantastic eating in these parts as well as walleye, Erie, PA
area. Nobody has mentioned carp.....now before everybody goes *yuk*, when I
lived along the Ohio River, it is very common to see people focus on
carp and catfish. I can remember a fish fry once where an old West
Virginia lady was doing the cooking - the carp was superb. Don't know
what she did, but they were some mighty fine eating.... |
hermit
May 27
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| If you don't like the strong taste of catfish, just make sure all the dark meat
is removed from the fillets before you cook them and they are almost as mild
and tasty as crappie. I slice off the dark meat next to the skin and also
remove the dark strip down the middle of the fillet and don't keep any over 3
or 4 pounds for eating. Mark McCoy<br>
McCoy's Market Bumpus Mills, Tennessee<br>
http://www.mccoysmarket.com |
mmccoy01
May 28
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| I used to think that, until I caught and cleaned a 48 Lb blue, that was
the mildest sweetest catfish in the world, I gave half of it away
thinking it would not be worth eating,, only to find out it was sensational
|
Rodney
May 27
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| Just think about how much pollution a 48 lb. cat has absorbed during the years
it took to get that big.
Mark McCoy<br>
McCoy's Market Bumpus Mills, Tennessee<br>
http://www.mccoysmarket.com |
mmccoy01
May 28
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| MAybe in your lakes and rivers I ate him and I am still alive 18 years later, and I don't glow in the
dark :-)
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Rodney
May 27
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| She doesn`t have pierced ears or anything else that is pierced that I can tell.
She is a quite handsome young woman and I would love to pierce a certian part
of her. :-)
Dan. |
mason121
May 28
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| I remember back when I was young and living on the farm in SW Georgia. =
Used to go to Jordan's General store every Saturday when he would get a =
barrel of mackerel fillets packed in rock salt. Fried mackerel =
fillets.....the other breakfast meat....:) Of course the leftovers got =
packed in biscuits for mid morning snacks..... --=20
Sandy Joren
You sound reasonable ... Time to up my medication.....
"J Buck" <jbuck41@webtv.net> wrote in message =
news:3914-40B58D06-93@storefull-3136.bay.webtv.net...
<there is absolutely, without question, nothing better than native =
brook
trout>=20 <Couldn't make me eat a trout> Wow. Can't fathom that, but to each his own. :)
=20
<Still, I prefer flounder to any of them, and cod to most> Cod, eh? How about mackerel or striper? I'm not a fan of =
mackerel...way
too oily, though they're a kick to catch on a Xmas tree. Striper's =
good.
If I couldn't have a brook trout, I'd settle for swordfish. |
Sandon
May 28
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| Now thats dam funny, if that's the case I would make it a point to let her |
alwaysfishking
May 28
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