What Have you Eaten?

[Bubbadust]

OCF,

We did our share to help you on Ida a few weeks ago as we kept a few rockbass along with some nice gills.

When I was growing up, we went sucker fishing in the spring and I could never tell the difference when they were deep fried. I've eaten my share of largemouth and smallmouth and have never thought they taste fine. I don't keep them if I have other options, but they're not bad. I found out last September that bullheads aren't good in the fall. The texture and taste was horrible!

I ate sheephead this year and they were delicious. OK, they were actually ocean sheephead, not what we have around here.

[snapcrackpop]

Does crayfish count?

They are excellent and plentiful.

Just boil whole until red, then chill, peel and eat.

[smg04]

dido on the crawfish, but i like them still warm dipped in melted butter or fried up just like popcorn shrimp

[troutmaster]

to answer your question Senkoskipper, No they are not an animal but they're asian. And yes they were puttinhg something on it, but i couldn't tell what it was?

[Mr.Seaguar]

Years ago we were fishing on the Mississppi and fishing was poor because the river was high. We had budgeted our money thinking fish would be part of the diet. All we could catch was sheephead. So......we ate sheephead, hunger not being an option. We just kept the 12-14 inchers. It was fine. They are just so ugly. I lived in KY as a kid and we fished for rockbass, smallmouth and spotted bass in the small creeks. I ate a lot of those. I was fishing once from that little park in Walker and my dad caught the two biggest rockbass Ive ever seen. Like 13-14 inches long. Monsters.

[sunnyj]

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Does crayfish count?

They are excellent and plentiful.

Just boil whole until red, then chill, peel and eat.

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Toss them in salt water first so they purge. (relieve them selves) This way you are not eating S***

[Finns]

May not have fish in it but---'Haggis'.

(WHAT ARE HMONGS? ARE THEY SOME KIND OF ANIMAL?) People that have come from SE Asia. Been known to hunt in Wisconsin.

Finns.

[The Grebe]

They all have grubs to my knowledge? Something in their diet, probably snails?

[Bubbadust]

My grandmother used to ask us to bring back the fish eggs when we cleaned them and she would fry them up along wih regular eggs. She loved them, but said they were a little crunchy. YUCK!!!

[snapcrackpop]

I've had northern eggs in the winter(spearing) and they were okay. Tried some this spring, but it wasn't as good as I'd remembered.

[so haaad]

I had whale when I was in Iceland. There are only a couple countries where whaling is still legal. It was interesting to try, but I still prefer walleye.

[T-water]

3 years ago I was at my ex-girfriends cabin with some Lithuanian friends of hers. The Lithuanian dude loved to fish but got mad when I let bigger fish go. One morning he was fishing while I slept in, by the time I got to the dock he had a dogfish on the stringer! Long story short I was talked into grilling the dogfish, nasty nasty nasty! The fish was like a burnt orange color and didnt smell good at all, I did try it TERRIBLE. Don't try this at home. I should've thrown the grill away.

[jbtwins24]

ok someone beat this, i went to culinary school and we made up fruit bat, honestly it was really good. i would so try it again.

[Wade Joseph]

I tried to clean a dogfish and a gar on two different occasions. Both smelled so bad I threw them out before I even finished cleaning them. NO WAY I was gonna eat anything that smelled that bad.

I have eaten sheephead, suckers, bullheads, snapping turtles, carp (excellent smoked), whitebass, rockbass, smallies, norhterns, walleyes, perch, crappies, bluegills, trout, crawfish, and the very worst tasting freshwater fish I have eaten, grass carp (Lg Mouth bass). To me, they taste like weeds smell.

Salt water I have eaten grouper, snapper, dolphin (the fish, not flipper) king fish, wahoo, halibut, flounder, stripped bass, black bass (or sea bass) triggerfish, swordfish, lobster, shrimp, crab, octopus, squid, clams and oysters.

Shall we go on to wild game?

[The Grebe]

Bubba....Thats something else I forgot...fish eggs, I've tried those also. I fried up a skein of walleye eggs once and the sack blew up and got those sticky little eggs all over. They didn't taste very good and I threw them away.

Now that I've been jogged, I've eaten caviar and that stuff sucks! In my opinion, you have to be pretty jaded to acquire a taste for that stuff! Yuk! I have also eaten snails, "Escargot", tastes like burnt rubber smells!

River clams, they are like chewing on little chunks of a super ball and taste pretty much the same. Crayfish, I'm not crazy about them...lots of work, little return.

And finally, "Lutefisk" I know thats Cod, but they sure have a funny way of doing it up? It's not bad, but I wouldn't break down any doors to get at it, unless I was starving.

Oyster stew is really good, as is clam chowder, but to me, raw oysters, "Blue Pointers" just taste like the sauce that is used...if you chew em up, it's like a mouth full of dirt.

I've tried a whole bunch of different sea food, but I would have to say that the nastiest seafood thing I have eaten, is baby octopus. They look like boiled spiders and probaby taste about as bad! Some of that crap, you really have to develope a taste for.....me, if I have to develope a taste for it, I don't want it!

[Captain B.R.K]

Living in MN, I thought this post would definately touch on the subject of pout'. Have you ever had pout'? As ugly and slimy as those things are when you catch em', I did try it a few years ago. They say it is a pour mans lobster......that saying is pretty true. I didn't have melted butter to dip it in, but it tasted good.

As for rock bass, yuck

[ocf]

Had some sunnies for dinner tonight, yum, they were good

[Aquaman01]

Rockbass - I've never encountered the large grubs, just the black spots that they have a lot more of than other fish seem to have. I've eaten them and found them as tasty as crappie and easier to filet due to the large shoulders.

There is a really cool exhibit on Hmong culture and immigration history in the Science Museum. Check it out. The twin cities is the largest Hmong community in America, so it would be good for any twin cities residents to go and learn more. For instance, due to the terrain in the highlands and midlands where they originated from, livestock wasn't as easy to raise as it was for the lowland farmers, so hunting and fishing became cultural mainstays for the Hmong.

A friend of mine has gone deer hunting with a Hmong woman and found her skills to surpass his in matters of stalking and tracking.

[tonyjor]

My ex girlfriend's Finnish Uncle speared an 18 lb northern a couple years ago. I asked if he had it mounted and he told me they filetted it out except for the first 4 inches behind the head. They baked the fillets and boiled the head and 4" of meat to make fish head stew. I probably would try it just to see how it tastes, but I would think it would taste like Northern slime smells .

Other than that, which i have yet to try, I've tried a few things over the years. I prefer Walleye, Northern, and Sunnies(w/the skin on) for the fish I'll eat. Oh, and Dennis Steele whoops up a great deep-fried catfish. My Grandma scarred me for life on the wild game. We ate at her house for Easter dinner when I was about 6 or 7. We had "chicken" and all the fixins'. After we were all done eating, Grandma told us instead of "chicken", what we actually ate was rabbit. I wouldn't have been too scarred if she had put it that way. Instead, her words were, " You know what we just had for dinner? You just ate the Easter Bunny." Now, besides some fish, I eat only beef, pork, chicken, and turkey. No wild game for this guy

[The Grebe]

BRK....Yeah, I think I might have had that in my first post on this subject? One of em? I did up several pout from Mille Lacs, they'er mostly guts. I got the meat off cleaned it up real good and boiled it in slightly salted water...poached it I guess you would say?

I then put it in the broiler for a tad with a little seasoning and butter on it to give it a little tan. Nuked some butter for dipping and got busy eating!

It was okay, more of a novelty item then a seriously sought after table fish, in my opinion. Cod and Pollock from Cub are alot easier, you get more and they taste better.

[MuskyBug85]

a guy i work with LOVES fried northern eggs, he says there like fried fish bbs and he cant gett enough of them.

[The Grebe]

Different strokes for different folks!

[Captain B.R.K]

The Grebe- pout' are lots of guts, but filleting the backstraps off these ugly fish is where you will find all the meat.

I'm not saying it was the best tasting fish I ever had , but I know some people love it and I do believe it tastes a little like lobster

[FRESHWATER PETIE]

After a 12 pack anything will taste good!!

I have heard the eel pout tasting like lobster thing before. Never tried it myself though. "poor mans lobster!!"

[The Grebe]

BRK...I think the term "Poor Mans Lobster" is in reference to Torsk...boiled and lightly broiled Cod...that stuff is is really good...dipped in that melted butter, it would make you fat as a penguin if you ate it to often! The old arteries would clog up to the size of a swizzle stick!

The old Poutski is a freshwater Cod, a Ling, or Lawyer and just like there is a difference between a Maine Lobster and a Rock Lobster, one being firmer and tastier then the other, so it is with the warm water and cold water Cod.

Just for a taste test, I dipped my daughters sunglasses in butter and took a bite and yup, tasted kinda like lobster...no, maybe it was chicken?

Anyway, I'll return the Pout to the water when I catch em, and they are safe from me unless I get hungry...then watch out!

[Ralph Wiggum]

FYI,

I tried out a sheephead this weekend. I was leary at first, but it actually was fantastic. I just filleted it and removed the lateral line and any dark meat. Could have called it a walleye and I would have been none the wiser.

[Deitz Dittrich]

RW- your a brave man... I was talking with Kut Paulson and he said the same thing.. I may have to keep the next one I catch!

[Ralph Wiggum]

I'd been hearing that for a while and our lake is chock full of them, so I had to try. I'll be keeping more in the future

[dirtking]

"Poor Mans Lobster"

I have heard plenty of folks refer to pout as poor mans lobster

I like it - boiled and dipped in butter - mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Borch]

Well I've had shark, red snapper, Sheephead(Ocean variety), Seatrout, Rockbass, eelpout, and of course the usual suspects this past year.

Once I ate mountian lion. Tasted a lot like pork to me.