What is the Best and Worst Tasting Fish you've caught and eaten? (Page 5): Have caught and bought Jack smelt. Tastes good if you roll them in flour and fry them. If they are small size...

bluelake2 Loc: northbay ca

bapabear wrote:

I have never tasted what we called jack smelt around Monterey. I tried to clean them a few times, but they worms were so thick that they kept dragging the filets off the cleaning table and running away with them.

Have caught and bought Jack smelt. Tastes good if you roll them in flour and fry them. If they are small size then you can leave the bones on them and eat the whole thing crispy.

bucky buckner Loc: murrells inlet SC

FinFisherman wrote:

I have to agree with Flytier Triggerfish is best! Blacktip shark the worst. Tastes like a old wet diaper smells!

most sharks urinate thru there skin, that is why it smells like the old wet diaper. LOL. The Thresher, Mako, Greatwhite, and there is one more but i can't think of it right now, all have uranary tracks, and do not pee thru the skin, and r good to eat, and do not smell bad

Graywulff Loc: Cortez,Co.

bluelake2 wrote:

Have caught and bought Jack smelt. Tastes good if you roll them in flour and fry them. If they are small size then you can leave the bones on them and eat the whole thing crispy.

Badbobby and I have smelt Jack a lots of times. Wonderful stuff........just sayin' Sorry blue I just couldn't resist that!😆😬

Flytier Loc: Wilmington Delaware

Graywulff wrote:

Badbobby and I have smelt Jack a lots of times. Wonderful stuff........just sayin' Sorry blue I just couldn't resist that!😆😬

Ur not the only ones.

Graywulff Loc: Cortez,Co.

Flytier wrote:

Ur not the only ones.

I just didn't want to speak for anybody else flytier, 👍😆😆😁

harleypiker Loc: WA

saw1 wrote:

We like Halibut. However, we also eat a lot more Striper than Halibut because we catch them all the time. They are fabulous, especially when fresh.

WALLEYE; pike, perch, crappie, bass, ................................bullhead ugh

Gus Gustin Loc: Penngrove, CA

saw1 wrote:

What days you got available? Where you wanna go?

Hahahaha .. retired .. I think that's what they said .. so I have most days.
I hate "amateur" day at the lakes ... Fri Afternoon thru Sunday Afternoon .. just a mess on
the lakes and on the ramp.

And if it's fishin' .. I'm up for just about anything ..

Billycrap2 Loc: Mason county,W(BY GOD) Virginia, 🇺🇸🦅

Bluegill crappie bass Rock bass channel cat if there less then 5 # warmouth northern pike red grouper and lobsters. Worse carp —-Yuck 🎣🎣🎣🐟🐟🐠🐠🐋🐋🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅

ranger632 Loc: Near Yosemite Park Ca.

Gus Gustin wrote:

Hahahaha .. retired .. I think that's what they said .. so I have most days.
I hate "amateur" day at the lakes ... Fri Afternoon thru Sunday Afternoon .. just a mess on
the lakes and on the ramp.

And if it's fishin' .. I'm up for just about anything ..

Same here, retried and fish during the week

Yankeeblue Loc: Manchester CT (near Hartford)

bucky buckner wrote:

most sharks urinate thru there skin, that is why it smells like the old wet diaper. LOL. The Thresher, Mako, Greatwhite, and there is one more but i can't think of it right now, all have uranary tracks, and do not pee thru the skin, and r good to eat, and do not smell bad

You are right Bucky. I have caught and eaten both Thresher and Mako and they are very good. Never caught or ate a great white, don't think I want to anymore.

bluelake2 Loc: northbay ca

Yankeeblue wrote:

You are right Bucky. I have caught and eaten both Thresher and Mako and they are very good. Never caught or ate a great white, don't think I want to anymore.

Leopard and sand shark taste good. Caught Blue shark but never eaten.

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

bluelake2 wrote:

Have caught and bought Jack smelt. Tastes good if you roll them in flour and fry them. If they are small size then you can leave the bones on them and eat the whole thing crispy.

There are several similar looking smelt. Are you sure you are talking Jack Smelt and not surf smelt, or hooligan? I am not disagreeing with you. Like I said in my previous post, I have never tasted Jack Smelt due to the excessive worm problem. And I mean excessive. Jack Smelt and carp are the only seafoods my mom told me not to bring home anymore. That includes snails lipids and other crazy items, so she was very open minded. The small smelt we catch in Puget sound are great fried or smoked. So are Hooligan.

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

bucky buckner wrote:

most sharks urinate thru there skin, that is why it smells like the old wet diaper. LOL. The Thresher, Mako, Greatwhite, and there is one more but i can't think of it right now, all have uranary tracks, and do not pee thru the skin, and r good to eat, and do not smell bad

Salmon shark.

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

In order to make a shark eatable, including dog fish, the fish needs to be blead immediately, then skinned and all dark meet removed. That is a lot of waist on at 2 or 3 foot fish. Once you are down to all white meat it needs to be put on ice. This must be done on the boat when first caught. That is a lot of work and waste for a small amount of fish from smaller sharks. The end result is a fine tasting fish, but the texture is weird as there is no grain or flakes.

bluelake2 Loc: northbay ca

bapabear wrote:

There are several similar looking smelt. Are you ... (show quote)

Papa, Sorry you are right. The small smelt I see in frozen bags at the market and here in surf in upper northern Calif. Folks here net them and fry them. Not sure I really tasted the bigger Jack Smelt. Have caught one from the pier but don't recall it's taste. They fight pretty good though for it's size.