What's Your Favorite "Trash Fish" to Eat?

I would totally go to a dinner like that to be able to compare all the different fish. Not only that but since you don't see those on normal menus, it would be interesting. Very cool.

mrs pauls

That's a cool idea. I'd love to participate in something like that. And honestly it's probably great for market diversity and fish populations. Some of the more popular fishes are victims of severe over fishing and that's just sad.

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favorite in the bonita, which was as dark as barbecue brisket and nearly as smoky after its preparation here

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I think that's probably the kicker. With some of these, you probably have to prepare it a few times in a few different ways to find what really works for that specific fish. If you can find a way to prepare it that accentuates the positive and minimizes the negative, chances are it will be pretty good. I don't consider myself that talented, however, so I'll leave it to the pros and then steal their ideas down the road.

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Many times, today's trash fish are tomorrow's fish fad.

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"Many" times huh? Name a couple. I'll give you one: Crawfish. But that trend started decades ago. List some of these new fads you're talking about..

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I don't fish anymore, but when I was a kid and we'd catch fish, there was no fish my dad wouldn't have us eat.

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Anyone who will eat gar and tell you it tastes good automatically loses all credibility with me. I've had gar a couple different ways and they've all be completely terrible.

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What's Your Favorite "Trash Fish" to Eat?

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catfish for me

Lotta poons up in here. I you fried gafftop and trout next to each other you wouldn't know the difference.

Almaco, wormy trout

catfish

I enjoy sheep head more than I do red fish so I won't consider it trash.

Croackers, pinfish, and hardtails. Alligator gars make delicious fish patties. My dad routinely goes night fishing for them.

When I was growing up we pretty much kept everything.

Ive eaten hard head catfish. Uou dont get much meat off of them but they dont really taste bad of you filet them.


People in the NorthEast eat bluefish. I dont knoe of ANYONE from LA who eats them.
Gafftop/Sailcat is a pretty decent eating fish although they are slimy as hell.

My dads favorite fish was Sheepshead/Bay Snapper. They not bad either, however the yield of meat per fish is low.

I remember catching a lot of Bonita on two deep sea fishing trips in the late 80s. We either threw it back or cut it up for bait because nobody would eat it. I believe the reasoning was that it was too bloody.