re: Best tasting Freshwater Fish

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Smelt. We used to sit on the pier drinking beer all night while hauling up net after net full of smelt. It was a team effort. One would lower and hoist the net, another would scoop the bounty from the net with a long pole that had a can on the end of it, and another would take a scissors, snip off the head and gut them. Battered, then you had deep fried goodness. I miss smelt.

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Great call. I haven't had any in years but, man, that's some damn good eats. They're tough to find in stores down here but growing up in Chicago many restaurants would have smelt fry nights and people would often cook them at home, too.