Fish

[Anonymous No.10290074]

What's the best way to prepare freshwater fish, specifically bass?
Should you bleed the fish before you filet it? Can you pan fry bass and have it taste alright, or is breading it the way to go?

[Anonymous No.10290108]

Fish are such revolting creatures, shame

[Anonymous No.10290149]

>>10290074
If you eat any other fish then saltwater you must be fucking autistic.
Respect your taste buds please.

[Anonymous No.10290174]

>>10290149
It's not like I have a lot of other options for fishing, anon, I don't have the ability to drive 2000 miles for a fishing trip.
Besides, trout are bomb and you know it

[Anonymous No.10290205]

>>10290074
I've only ever had it breaded and never bled out any fresh water fish

[Anonymous No.10290215]

>>10290074
panfry it with butter

[Anonymous No.10290225]

>>10290149
found the retard
>>10290074
panfry with butter, no need for anything else like breading

[Anonymous No.10290237]

>>10290225
>>10290174
sorry but catfish is the only fish that you should ever eat out of fresh attempt death now

[Anonymous No.10290407]

bluegill is better tasting.
Deep fry it with a cornmeal breading.

t. Northern Hoosier with a family lake cottage.
hosting many community fish fries.

[Anonymous No.10290472]

>>10290237
You know other than: bass, bluegill, pumpkinseed, crappie, northernern, walleye, perch (in cleaner lakes), smelt, trout.

Saltwater fish are usually just meh.

[Anonymous No.10290488]

>>10290237
Lake Erie perch has been massively popular for fucking ever.

[Anonymous No.10290515]

>>10290074
Bass can be good but there are better species for eating like panfish. The main trick with bass is to skin it, which most people don’t do with fish that size besides catfish, and be careful to minimize contact between the bass’s slime coating and the meat. The skin and slime is where the mud flavor comes from.

[Anonymous No.10290567]

>>10290472
Stop. Don't encourage more people moving inland

[Anonymous No.10290573]

>>10290237
Bass sashimi bro

[Anonymous No.10290601]

>>10290074
Freshwater fish in America are a healthy part of your diet when eaten no more than 1 time a month.

Seriously , can you point to another food they say this about. ????

[Anonymous No.10290608]

>>10290601
That entirely depends on the lake the fish is from and the type of fish being eaten

[Anonymous No.10290613]

>>10290601
Most freshwater fish are safe to eat weekly at least. It's the big saltwater species that like stripers that are rated as once a month.

[Anonymous No.10290872]

>>10290074
i baked mine with broccoli and capers in a cream sauce and i desperately wish i could find the recipe because it was pretty good.

i used largemouth bass from a privately managed pond and they didn't have any weird flavor, they just tasted like mild fish. i didn't bleed them or anything, just followed basic filleting directions.

[Anonymous No.10290930]

>>10290074
Bass is good with just salt and pepper. However, it's also good floured with cajun spice and fried the same way you do catfish.

[Anonymous No.10291089]

>>10290074
Throw it back and catch trout, walleye, perch, catfish, bluegill, or crappie instead.

Largemouth, especially the big lazy ones are pretty shitty and best left as sport fish.

[Anonymous No.10291111]

>>10291089
i understand this sentiment but harvesting bass is important for some management situations and you might as well eat them if you need to cull them

[Anonymous No.10291120]

>>10290608
>>10290613
Apparently people are so retarded they can't do their research and fish out of clean sources. It's your own damned fault if you keep eating bottom-feeders out of a former quarry or mine pit.

Hell, the locals where I used to live would catch huge catfish out of a former-strip mine but they knew better than to eat them because people used it to dispose of unwanted vehicles and large appliances (the dump charges a lot). Also sorta taboo because the drug dealers have dropped some bodies in there.

[Anonymous No.10292574]

>>10290149
>mfw anon can't into walleye. probably doesn't even catch his own fish

[Anonymous No.10292588]

best bass I ever had was cleaned right on shore, beer battered, fried and covered in lemon juice. Not fancy but damn was he tasty. 18" smallie

[Anonymous No.10292629]

>>10290237
rainbow trout are godly

[Anonymous No.10292675]

>>10291111
Quads have spoke.

Also amen. Fishing in the midwest is like living in some fantasy land. Take the boat out midday and putter around for blue-gill. Take enough to fill half the live-well before it's time to head to the reeds. Relax as it starts to cool off and smile as the turtles bob and play with the occasional bites until you pull in a few nice bass; some might be small mouth, large-mouth, or rock.

Head back to the docks when the sun goes down to tie and anchor up, help with other boats, empty the well and tarp over, then hook up with the sweet younger girls that just came to the lake to camp, after you're done cleaning and cleaning up of course. You'd be surprised how much young women like a guy coming off a boat with an oven vest a string of large fish after helping dock multiple boats even if you smell like bass.

Then maybe after some campfire fun if the night has a little waves you go after walleye. The midwest is magic. But fuckoff, its mine.

[Anonymous No.10292700]

>>10292675
you are so fucking gay

[Anonymous No.10292841]

>>10292700
nah he isnt, its the truth, wisco bro here. Love all the free salmon, walleye, trout i can catch. Stay mad you little cunt

[Anonymous No.10292875]

>>10292841
Hey I was actually describing MN. A lot of the people came to my favorite lake from the Wisconsin border. Kinda found it weird they'd drive around 3-4 hours to spend a week around a campfire, but hey, hot girls.

Not living anywhere near anymore sadly. Haven't been anywhere near Brainerd/Baxter have you?

[Anonymous No.10292898]

>>10290074
Don't listen to all these plebs OP, large mouth bass is fantastic fish. Make sure to bleed it out when you catch it fresh before you fillet. If you got a wok or something stifry bass fillets and follow a recipe like this: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/sea-bass-with-gingered-vegetable-stir-fry-1985
You can use celery, broccoli, and other harder vegetables.

[Anonymous No.10292907]

bass needs rhythm and by rhythm i mean mayo, and lots of it.

[Anonymous No.10292918]

>>10290074
Steam it? It has to be super fresh(like, alive half an hour ago). Don't even have to filet it.

[Anonymous No.10292919]

>>10292898
The fuck are you talking about bleed it out?

You mean rinse the fillets off when you clean it? There's almost no blood and hopefully it'll still be alive by the time you get it back to the fishhouse. If not you really should invest in a well or at least a basket or something to keep it fresh. Or are you keeping it whole and not gutting it for some other purpose?

Also reminders everyone, look for an eggsac. They are freezable and are wonderful breaded and deep-fried.

[Anonymous No.10292926]

>>10292919
Certain places you can't bring the fish live with you back - in that case you cut them at the gills to drain them out of the blood before packing them in ice. Obviously if you can bring it back live do that.

[Anonymous No.10292955]

>>10292875
What lake is it? And whats it got? Sounds like itd be a good time if you can camp

[Anonymous No.10292978]

>>10292875
And no, I havent, Im in racine (SE Wisconsin) and have only traveled to local ponds/rivers and of course the the great lake, since its a 15 minute drive away from me, i love it.

[Anonymous No.10292984]

>>10292919
fuck that, eggsacs are great for salmon, and they taste so much better

[Anonymous No.10293028]

>>10292955
Lake Edward. It's got pretty much every fish. Jetskiers and pontooning drunktards messed up some of the reeds but it has all the fish typical of the region other than muskie.

Been a few years, literally just a few, so hopefully nobody fucked up heaven itself. The lake is otherwise filled with a ton of fish; crappie and perch had been running low as of three years ago and the pike were medium to low size. Still, three kinds of bass. Blue gills. Pumpkin-seeds. You get the gist. Three resorts left if I remember correctly and there's several good fishing lakes, not exaggerating, withing walking distance, like god poked ideal fishing spots in the area. They're good sized lakes too. If you don't have a boat look into the resorts, some of them used to have aluminum flat-bottoms with decent motors, and every gas-station has fishing supplies, most with bait.

Horse-shoe, Pelican, Round, Leech, Long; they're all great lakes depending on what you're looking for. I'd say Horse-shoe and leech for diversity though. And if Merrified gas-station is still in business and hasn't changed they probably have the best and widest variety of bait closest to the lakes.

[Anonymous No.10293148]

>>10292675
>The midwest is magic
I don't know, dude. Maybe if you like fishing.

[Anonymous No.10293166]

>>10293148
This is a fish thread geddout

[Anonymous No.10293174]

>>10293028
saw some pictures, holy shit its beautiful, i gotta visit it someday

[Anonymous No.10293189]

>>10293148
Been to several parts of the East coast and I'm contemplating suicide just being reminded of it.

I'm stuck in the bible-belt and I feel like I'm depressed because I can't return to the iron range right now. Once you've been where you belong, going to bad places really feels like you've been abandoned by god. I don't enjoy being ripped from heaven. What gets me through the day is the idea is idea that I might be able to go back, and avoid the south and the coasts.

[Anonymous No.10293208]

>>10293174
Just a forewarning. There's a lot of docks that are private property and you do want a boat, again you can find cheap rentals, because those shores are shallow and reedy on most good lakes.

Fishing is also highly based on weather so it's very much a sport of not give a fuck but do your research before relaxing, and have an AM/FM radio so you know what's coming. Different fish like different weather. But yes the area is gorgeous and if you can afford to camp out there, especially with a boat and nice fishing supplies for a week and a half or two, or just move there. You'll regret the rest of life exists.

[Anonymous No.10293235]

>>10293208
>youll regret the rest of life exist
Man im a mile away from lake michigan, i dont think i can regret being here

[Anonymous No.10293559]

>>10292919
Some freshwater fish have poisonous roe though, like gar

[Anonymous No.10293564]

>>10293189
Are you the guy who starts going off on "at least we're not the south" whenever someone says something bad about the midwest?

[Anonymous No.10293576]

I always released my bass because I've been told it tastes like shit

crappie and trout though that's a different story