Fish Friday

I like fish any day.

Fried tilapia or catfish tacos, triggerfish fajitas and most any fish but salmon seared in a pan with pepper and lemon.
I steer away from top tier predator fish even though I REALLY love swordfish and tuna... it's just to rough on the fish populations right now.
 
Any day's a good day to eat fish. I'm kind of persnickety though. With the exceptions of Ahi Tuna, and Salmon, I like to see them come out of the water. I'm lucky to live near an aquatic preserve on Tampa Bay, so when time and weather permit, I enjoy flats fishing. Given conditions, spotted seatrout (weakfish) snook, redfish, cobia, mangrove snapper, triple-tail and if you find the right pile of rocks, grouper. Small sharks are delectable, but I release larger ones...a bit too much mercury for my tastes. This time of year, if you can find the right pond or lake, speckled perch are biting hard in anticipation of spawning. Dunked in buttermilk and dredged in spiced fine ground cornmeal and fried, they're hard to pass up.

A decent fish in the boat trumps anything else that might have been pulled out for dinner. There are few things in this world finer than scarfing down a fish that was swimming around less than 3 hours earlier.
 
FISH yes fish. Most of the world enjoys fish, especially Asians. Cajuns prefer fish to almost anything else IMO. Blackened redfish is hard to beat, except maybe Redfish Courtbouillon (pronounced koo'beeyaw). That's a redfish stewed lightly in tomato based roux over rice. Ummmm. And leave the bones, there's a lot of fish between dem bones. If you can't not eat the bones, den don't eat fish. Keep some french bread handy in case you get a bone in ya troat. Cher.
 
Clams and lobster are my favorite. I think I might go get some steamers at the beach this weekend.
Yum!
 
Fish stew is really good but you gotta make sure everything gets cooked JUST right or it sucks out loud. I'd call it an 8 on a 10 scale in terms of difficulty.
 
Salmon, steelhead or wild trout. Bluegill sauteed in butter and garlic. Sweet Meat! Welcome crawdaddy. See you in Savannah. Hope you get elected as MS State Director!
 
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This time of year, if you can find the right pond or lake, speckled perch are biting hard in anticipation of spawning. Dunked in buttermilk and dredged in spiced fine ground cornmeal and fried, they're hard to pass up.

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When my grandpa was alive, they lived in Ellenton, not too far from you and in 1968 we caught a whole mess of speckled perch one day. Deelicious fishous!
 
Nice Pigwot. My dad spent a career with FP&L. Prior to 911 and Homeland Insecurity, they used to let employees and their families fish in the impound at the Lake Manatee generating plant, not far from Ellenton. That lake stays warm the entire year, and the fish never stop eating. We'd load a cooler with 18-20" specks. The water was so clean in that impound that the bass tasted like grouper.

We'd fish right at the plant outflow.. the fish were stacked up there scarfing up baitfish that had been caught up in the impellers of the cooling system. It was like dropping a bait into a school of piranha.
 
My favorite brackish creek for catching snook, redfish and tarpon is no longer accessible since Homeland built a complex on one side of it, and the FBI on the other. Hmmmmmm, maybe they're protecting the fish.
 
In Alaska I ate the most wonderful salmon ever. I feel like I could never get tired of wild salmon. I agree with Blinky about steering clear of the top predators. Fried fish is also a favorite of mine.

SZ
 
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FISH yes fish. Most of the world enjoys fish, especially Asians. Cajuns prefer fish to almost anything else IMO. Blackened redfish is hard to beat, except maybe Redfish Courtbouillon (pronounced koo'beeyaw). That's a redfish stewed lightly in tomato based roux over rice. Ummmm. And leave the bones, there's a lot of fish between dem bones. If you can't not eat the bones, den don't eat fish. Keep some french bread handy in case you get a bone in ya troat. Cher.

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Good to hear from you, Murv. How are things on the gulf?

SZ
 
basic good old pond bluegill carefully filleted, dipped in egg and milk, litely rolled in fine cracker crumbs and put in the fry daddy.

that and wild trout, not so much because I like the taste of the trout as I think its cool to catch and cook over a fire.
 
Yeah I keep a good stock of canned sardines.
No heavy metals.
High in everything for the body and brain.
Can't remember the Olympian. But she swore by them and won a few gold medals.
Connors bros in New Brunswick is the last in North America canning.
Belonging to the same family is Stickle back and I gave it a try last week. Real good.

Definitely power food and you can just keep a few cans in the truck floating around. For the day you forgot the lunch at home.
 
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