Species that you would or would not eat?

[wolfe]

And for those who would not eat suckers or carp, because they "clean the bottom", it is exactly for that reason that they are less "contaminated" than bass for instance, who are higher in the food chain.

Good point, Maple.

Yes, basic biology -- the concentration of contaminations increases as you move up the food chain. That's why lots of top predator species are susceptible to toxins like pesticides, mercury, etc.

On behalf of Bird Addict , I'll mention the osprey and bald eagles as classic examples, but you can look to mammals, too, like the river otter. People are not excluded from this, either. Pregnant women and children are advised to avoid frequent meals of fish, (i.e. tuna) due to concentrated levels of mercury.

So Maple is 100% right -- but the tilapia still disgust me.

W.

PS: Canmoore, I love the redwings' call, too.

[Maple]

You haven't lived until you've had a few small brookies (8-10") lightly fried in some bacon fat for breakfast.

Amen to that.

[wolfe]

Did somebody say "BACON"?? ohhhhh, I love bacon...

W.

[KayakMike]

I live in Japan these days and here they eat anything that swims, floats, or crawls along the bottom of the seas. Today at lunch we had jellyfish in a miso sauce - really delicious. Many of the fish we eat, like smelts or sardines, are consumed whole. They're surprisingly good.

It's interesting that they rarely eat freshwater fish here. Of course, the rivers are mostly so polluted that few people would eat the fish from them. However, if you get up into the mountains, the waters are extremely clean. One of the nicest fish to eat is called ayu ("eye - you") and it's grilled on a stick over coals. Occasionally people will eat trout, but it's not popular at all.

Worth mentioning: Ayu fishing is either a perversion or a form of art...
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~y-ogura/hyper/hyper.html

[Bass Addict]

Did somebody say "BACON"??

Never mind the Bacon......Did somebody say River Otters....


A Pair of these dudes tried to sneak by my wife ..(.I mean me ) ..yesterday while we were out for a Nature walk....

[Fishboy]

I live in Japan these days and here they eat anything that swims, floats, or crawls along the bottom of the seas. Today at lunch we had jellyfish in a miso sauce - really delicious. Many of the fish we eat, like smelts or sardines, are consumed whole. They're surprisingly good.

It's interesting that they rarely eat freshwater fish here. Of course, the rivers are mostly so polluted that few people would eat the fish from them. However, if you get up into the mountains, the waters are extremely clean. One of the nicest fish to eat is called ayu ("eye - you") and it's grilled on a stick over coals. Occasionally people will eat trout, but it's not popular at all.

Worth mentioning: Ayu fishing is either a perversion or a form of art...
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~y-ogura/hyper/hyper.html

Perverted art really, just one tiny step above the lead sinker with treble hook snaggers I've seen on Lake Ontario tribs. They use 20 foot long buggy whips for poles and the line is tied to the tip - no reel needed. I wonder: if they caught the first ayu without using the proscribed method, why do they need to use the proscribed methed?

[Chevy Champagne]

Walleye man,
you said that rockbass dont taste good!!!????
i have had em before, and both me and my bud Kyle agreed that they were great!

order from best to worst: walleye, perch, sunfish, rockbass, trout
trout are yucky, but that is just my opinion!
tt
ty

really i have caught so many of them and thought that they would be full of worms with how easy they are to catch and its possible to catch the same one right after you let it go
so i didnt think that they would be any good
maby next time when i go out at the local launch ill keep a couple and try them out
thanks budd

[JimW]

I would agree rock bass are okay to eat, but a lot of them do have yellow "grubs" which although are kind of gross are killed when cooked and do not affect the flesh.


http://www.vtfishandwildlife.com/librar ... w_grub.pdf

JimW

[Canmoore]

but the tilapia still disgust me.

I did my college co-op in a Tilapia hatchery... I know all about dirty water. We are talking about water so dirty, you can look in, and think that no fish could ever survive in such water. Onlt to realize, that you are looking at hundreds of fish swimming around under the veil of black water!!

And the smell!! A regular fish hatchery smells fishy, but a tilapia fish hatchery!! brutal. I even had the privilaged job of scrubbing tanks, and cleaning bio-filters!!! Yum!!

But man, the Chinese love them. Once a week, we had a guy from Toronto come up with this special Truck. It was a retrofitted milk truck, with the long refigereted stainless steel tank on the back fitted with filters, oxygenators...the works! . We would catch fish with nets, all day and load hundreds of Tilapia into this truck.

The chinese guy who drove the truck was hillarious, we would make bets as to various weights per fish. We see a fat one, everyone would yell out a weight, like say 4.7 pounds, whoever was the closest won! as we had to weigh every single fish!!! made for a long, and back breaking day.

fun times.

On a side note, my stepfather is Japanese, so every New Years growing up, we would have a huge homemade Japanese buffet at my grandmothers house..

I have tried more types of strange ocean creatures than I care to remember!!

[adempsey]

I'll try anything once, as long as it's considered somewhat "normal". None of that Fear Factor stuff.

On my typical fishing adventures I stick with walleye, perch, whitefish and trout [if I even bother to keep any at all]. As long as they aren't too big for the species. I throw back everything else unless our dinner is short, then perhaps I would make up the difference with a small bass, crappie or pike.

Honestly, if you deep fry any fish in batter they pretty much taste the same. At least to me.

I don't think there has been a single ocean going fish species that I tried that I haven't liked.

My "fish preference" is for sushi anyway.

[adempsey]

I'll try anything once, as long as it's considered somewhat "normal". None of that Fear Factor stuff.

On my typical fishing adventures I stick with walleye, perch, whitefish and trout [if I even bother to keep any at all]. As long as they aren't too big for the species. I throw back everything else unless our dinner is short, then perhaps I would make up the difference with a small bass, crappie or pike.

Honestly, if you deep fry any fish in batter they pretty much taste the same. At least to me.

I don't think there has been a single ocean going fish species that I tried that I haven't liked.

My "fish preference" is for sushi anyway.

[Dore]

yummmmmmm ling soup ! with some garlic

[Canmoore]

yummmmmmm ling soup ! with some garlic

Do you have a recipe?? I really want to try Ling at some point.

[Bass Addict]

I really want to try Ling at some point.

[wolfe]

Great river otter pic's, Cathy, umm I mean BA.

I did an article on this animal for the Wolfe Lake Association's newsletter this year. Very cool and unusual animal. I'm glad I'm bigger than they are, for as comical and cute as they appear, they're major predators.

W.