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what was the best fish you've had?

alaskanmanalaskanman Member Posts: 362 ✭✭✭
edited February 2004 in General Discussion
since i was a kid i always remember a silver salmon my dad cooked in tin foil baked in an oven. i don't really remember what he all used to prepare but just that it was great. i've had many great fish meals but that one always stands out.

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  • orca44magorca44mag Member Posts: 690 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One word...Walleye.
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  • 925925 Member Posts: 441 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    when hikeing up a trail called staircase in the olympics we stopped to make camp (very hungry) I droped a fly in the river and pulled out a barely legal rainbow( he must have been as hungry as me)he grabed it before it hit the water,we cooked it up and split it bettween the three of us, tasted mighty fine after hikeing half a day.
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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm with you on this one 925. We hike to some mountain lakes in Mount Rainier park and fly fish from float tubes. The last trout planting took place in 1972 so they are all wild rainbow trout that average 16", but can reach 20" and have a dark pink meat. Filleted, Pan fried in butter flavored crisco with flour and cajun powder has to rank one notch above any fish I have ever eaten. Not to mention the funnest to catch with fly gear and light leader.
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  • redrebelredrebel Member Posts: 826 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dad and Mom sent a care package one time with smoked sturgeon in it, that has to be my most memorable piece of fish.


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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by MVP
    I'm with you on this one 925. We hike to some mountain lakes in Mount Rainier park and fly fish from float tubes. The last trout planting took place in 1972 so they are all wild rainbow trout that average 16", but can reach 20" and have a dark pink meat. Filleted, Pan fried in butter flavored crisco with flour and cajun powder has to rank one notch above any fish I have ever eaten. Not to mention the funnest to catch with fly gear and light leader.
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  • bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
    edited November -1
    It is a tie between some 1-2 lb bluefish caught and cleaned and eaten right away or some little brookies caught on the flyrod and panfried for lunch with some wild mountain onions and butter.

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  • mpolansmpolans Member Posts: 1,752 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Negi-toro maki. Also, tekka maki and hamachi.

    Fugu was the most expensive (and the most exciting!) but not necessarily the best tasting...in fact, it was almost tasteless.
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  • bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
    edited November -1
    Ever wonder what all the fuss is about flounder? Don't taste like much of nothing to me. Use to BBQ shark in the winter when work was slow. Bunch of us year round islanders all broke in the winter months would use calves liver in the surf to catch a couple small sharks. Soak the meat in ice water overnight and BBQ it on the grill for a neighborhood feast next day.

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  • schotzi1schotzi1 Member Posts: 307 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Alaskan Salmon cooked on the grill - with an ice cold beer.

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  • paboogerpabooger Member Posts: 13,953
    edited November -1
    Nothing better than a batch of Crappie fillets fried in beer batter!! Hell it's the next best thing since sliced bread and better than eatin beans!!![:D]

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  • rmeyerrmeyer Member Posts: 566 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fresh tuna steaks bbq'd.
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,527 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fresh caught panfish, bluegill, crappie, in my special batter.
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  • 358 WINCHESTER358 WINCHESTER Member Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A great big pan of BLUEGILL is mighty hard to beat but then SQUAW CANDY is right there at the top also. been several years since I had any real indian made squaw candy.[:p]

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  • crims40crims40 Member Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    On some cold crisp mornings, I like to jump in the old jeep and go down to my favorite place for fish. I just drive up to the box and say, "One Mcfish burger please". You can't match the care that those people put in preparing your catch of the day...Hmm, hmmm.........[:D][}:)][;)]
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  • DIRTYRATDIRTYRAT Member Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lake-Erie Perch![:p]

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  • SwwboSwwbo Member Posts: 1,255 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't know about the best since I have had about every fish out there.. But at the moment.. I woundn't mind having a platter of fried mullet and some mullet gizzards.. some good eating there!!

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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I grew up in Georgia on largemouth bass.
    On my first trip to Ontario, I saw the light.

    Walleye. Catch one, pull over in the canoe, light the fire and fry him up. Nothing better.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Any fish is the best...love it...


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    I too love Squaw candy....can buy it in the stores where I was born...havent had any since I left and had forgotten about it...

    but have found a recipe for it...look familiar?..

    http://alaskaoutdoorjournal.com/Departments/Recipes/Canning/salmonjerky.html


    I remember the stuff was expensive but the prices in California are a bit out of line...49.99 a pound....
    A web site in Alaska sells it for 23.99 a pound...bit better...but its soooo worth it...
    http://www.welovefish.com/alaska_seafood.htm





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  • RUGERGUNZRUGERGUNZ Member Posts: 5,638 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fresh Halibut

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  • FlatheadFlathead Member Posts: 318 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was a kid we would go to Louisiana to my uncles and go catch redfish, My aunt would make it so it just would melt in your mouth. That along with the fresh shrimp was some good eatin
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  • 358 WINCHESTER358 WINCHESTER Member Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks BR I had one but lost it now I have a reason to go back up north and fish,[:p] all I have to do is talk the wife into changing her vacation plans from going to Ohio to see the grandkids to Ak. to fish shouldn't be to hard a job[;)]

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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A prehistoric looking fish at the headwaters of the Amazon in Iquitos, Peru. These monsters can go several hundred pounds. Don't recall the name but they were the best ever.
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  • cbxjeffcbxjeff Member Posts: 17,637 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    TUNA. Can I say that?!!

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  • pvfrmrpvfrmr Member Posts: 170 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My next one!!!!
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  • crosshaircrosshair Member Posts: 635 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Walleye is hard to beat!

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  • elect1mikeelect1mike Member Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Alittle swordtail named ralph. O you mean to eat o walleye for sure.

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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    I'm with Pa'! Nothing like a fresh batch of Crappie![;)]

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  • greeker375greeker375 Member Posts: 3,644
    edited November -1
    Yellow Fin Tuna! Bar none in my estimation.

    If you put it in an egg wash, lightly dust it in flour and a crushed garlic seasoned crouton mix then sautee it in butter you can't tell it from fresh veal. [:p]



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  • dakotashooter2dakotashooter2 Member Posts: 6,186
    edited November -1
    #1 Walleye
    #2 Walleye
    #3 walleye
    #4 crappie
    #5 perch

    Anything else just tastes like rotten fish (especially tuna).
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  • 270 Deer Slayer270 Deer Slayer Member Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by DIRTYRAT
    Lake-Erie Perch![:p]

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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    Walleye and jumbo perch [but not out of lake Erie anymore!]

    I also love that Halibut!

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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This a tough one!! Can't argue with an Ontario walleye shore lunch..Also agree with the crappie/bluegill...How about crick bullhead breaded and fried in butter...[:p]

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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Swwbo
    Don't know about the best since I have had about every fish out there.. But at the moment.. I woundn't mind having a platter of fried mullet and some mullet gizzards.. some good eating there!!

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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I love sushi -- don't get it since I moved back to the wilds of Northern Indiana. I'm a lobster man above all, if I can find one that melts in my mouth. And there used to be a little 10x10 storefront grill in L.A. that cooked great fresh-grilled shark tacos that I still miss to this day. The best lake fish is anything right out of the skillet. I do like fresh catfish -- don't understand people that claim not to like "fishy fish." It's like saying I don't like steaky steak. [:D] And I clean and fillet my own lake fish -- bluegill, perch, bass, the rare pike -- but somebody else usually cooks them up for me to eat. I once took a half-day trip out in a small cruiser off Miami and caught a porpoise and a kingfish -- salt water fish are mighty good eating.

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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It just came to me....Somewhere WAY outside Nawlins, 35 yrs. back, there was a little shack of a place called Coolong's...Gulf shrimp served on newspaper and roaches making tracks in the sawdust on the floor....Oh, Lord, I can still taste 'em......The shrimp, not the roaches!!!

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  • TeamblueTeamblue Member Posts: 782 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fresh caught South Dakota glacial lake walleye and perch seasoned with onion flakes and parsley. Put it in tin foil with a dallop of butter and throw it on the grill.

    Some powerful good eatin' boys...

    We do this late spring and fall when the fishing is real good at the brother-in-law's cabin up near the North Dakota line. A little piece of heaven!



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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Swordfish and grouper. Six of one, half dozen of the other.

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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    Sea Bass, Mahi- Mahi,(dolphin) Red Snapper. Oh yeah Baybee!!

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  • SwwboSwwbo Member Posts: 1,255 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    FrancF me too...Had some the last time I was in FL... As a child my grandfather would smoke them.. some good eating there... Here in Virginia you can't get mullet..I used to go down by the water and watch my Grandfather and Dad throw the cast net many times..By the way talk about an art... My father can make a cast net.. I would ask him to make me one but I know the hours of labor there..Heck the first thing I ever drove was a wooden skiff power by an out board motor.

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  • bama55bama55 Member Posts: 6,389 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fresh bluegill or crappie grilled, with Tiger Sauce sprinkled on while it cooks. Of course this is while camping by the river.[:D]

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