You'll be hooked. Northern Pike and Muskies are the best fighters but Walleyes are the best eaters.
Posted on 04/20/2011 10:48:01 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
I don't think there is better fish to eat than crappie. Tuna is good, bass is OK, catfish can be tasty, but there ain't nothing better than good Arkansas crappie.
Two words.... Zara-Spook.
walleye..Put the turkey fryer up to 400-425 degrees, take an 18” filet and bread it with egg, cornmeal and beer (or a boxed trail mix)and drop it in. It will fall about 12” and come floating to the top. No better fish ever. By the way, in PA many call them walleye ‘Pike’. BUT... they are a perch.
Wild Alaskan Salmon. Nuff said.
Brook Trout, Walleye, Northern Pike, Halibut, Grouper, Red Snapper, Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Lake Trout, Bass, then pan fish.
Having the Sunday paper in front of you while you take your good crappie?
Beef is best
Bluegill is mighty fine eating. I think it nudges out crappie, but not by much.
Easter Sunday feast for the chosen few. Bismarck, AR, baby. We git ‘er done!
Eat till you cain’t no mo, then break into the Tennessee sour mash. Hey, I'm a cheap date.”
Yep, I agree about crappie, good eating for sure. I camped at Lake DeGray State Park back in February. Just putting in a plug, it's one of the most clean and nice parks I have ever stayed at. Great place to take the family, has golf course, horse back riding, lodge, restaurant, ski boat, and jet ski rentals. And, only 30 miles from Hot Springs in everyone get bored. Btw, DeGray is a bit of a hike for you isn't it West Texas Chuck? Used to live in Midland and have made the drive a few times myself :)
It’s a catch and release operation, of course, at least in Texas. They don’t issue tags for jetskiers... yet.
LOL. I occasionally fish with a guy down at the Bar K marina and he actually took one jetskier off his Jetski. They were fishing in Cow Creek and this idiot kept coming by them on one of those stand up ones. He took a salt water rod with spider wire (for striped bass) and hit him in the vest with a big lure. Jerked him right off and then went over to him and told him "The next time, I am sticking your head under the water with my dip net". They never saw him again.
You'll be hooked. Northern Pike and Muskies are the best fighters but Walleyes are the best eaters.
Particularly when caught in the dead of winter through a hole in the ice if a frozen Michigan lake.
Crap Pie?
Gross
OH ya. I remember driving out a couple of miles on Saginaw Bay and drilling through 30” of ice.
We fried them the old way too. Scaled, gutted, dipped in egg, flower, and cracker crumbs, and fried in cast iron.
I have some in my sink AT THIS MOMENT thawing out to fry for dinner. But in Louisiana we call them sac-a-lait!
A person could make big money opening some sort of
‘Catfish Kitchen’ here in Colorado.
Lots of folks wonder why it is so difficult to find a place
that cooks catfish in this state, and I wonder too.
Verret is easy to get to by boat from our camp in Pierre Part!!
Fried crappie is mighty fine....mighty fine. I had a worker one time whose parents naturalized here from Peru. She brought some crappie for me to try one time that was before sushi became so big around here. She thinly sliced small strips of raw fileted crappie and then put them in lemon juice with a few sprigs of cilantro and let them marinate overnight in the frig. At that time I wasn't to up on eating raw fish, but she told me the lemon juice kinda cooks the fish in a different manner and that it didn't taste raw. I tried it and she was right. It was downright tasty. Probably would be real tasty fixed like sushi draped over a stuffed sticky rice roll with some wasabi and fresh ginger.
Hope you have a good time here this weekend. - OB1
How about the slimehead, better known as the Orange Roughy? Some marketing genius began to use the more pleasant sounding name and sales went up.
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