Favorite way to prepare Sheepshead (fish)

I've used it to make mock crabmeat to use in a faux hot crab dip (the 1960s-70s kind with cream of celery or mushroom soup, cheese, etc.) There is a Frank Davis mock crabmeat recipe floating around on the interwebz.

I like it deep fried or pan fried with a little bread crumbs and some butter. I hate cleaning them, and they don't yield a lot of meat but they are good eating.

Sean Brock grilled one in the halfshell on Parts Unknown recently and it looked pretty darned good.

I'll always keep the big ones, good fishing day or not.

Pretty, clean meat that is best sautéed/blackened in a pan.

We used to stick it in a stocking and toss it in a crab boil.

Smoke it whole, pick the meat off and make a spread/dip with it. Good stuff.