My humble apology to the endangered Red Badger. I go for Salmon, Lingcod, and Halibut I catch in Alaska about 3000 miles from my house.
So, you fish just for the halibut? Hope you don’t flounder around too much..............
To me, there is absolutely no finer food than FRESH CAUGHT FISH! I've fished in old miner streams in Oregon for Rainbow, forgotten rivers throughout CA, the oceans of CA.
Catch 'em, clean 'em, put them straight into a ground pit, a bbq pit, a frying pan - doesn't matter - it's manna.
I went deep-sea fishing off Bodega Bay years ago. Fileted, I caught 24 lbs of ling cod. Those suckers stay 100s of feet down. Reeled 'em in myself. Could barely move my shoulders for about 3 days....
And yep, love fresh cooked eel.
Anyone who hasn't had abalone and crab straight from the sea to cooker, hasn't really tasted abalone or crab.
Tilapia, fresh, is a very delicate tasting fish. It's excellent.
Dover sole used to be my main edible...
Almost caught a monster daddy bass at Jordan Lake here last year... sigh, mostly caught crappies.