re: Fish or game that you don't get the love for

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DUCK X 100

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I meet a lot of people who say this but usually when I dig deeper I come to find out they've probably only ever had it overcooked or prepared without the fat, which is what makes duck great.

Pan-seared, skin-on, fatty duck breast from a woodie, wigeon, pintail, or clean eating mallard is some of the best meat I've ever eaten when cooked rare.

Now if you cook it all the way through, it tastes pretty rough.

And I'm in the "I don't get the love for catfish" boat. I'll eat small channel and ops from moving water or lakes, but farm pond channels taste mushy to me and I'd rather eat bass, bream or sacaulait every time over a pond catfish. Yet I have friends who lose their mind if I bring them some catfish I catch but shrug their shoulders at bass and bream fillets. Don't make no sense to me.

The whole book sheepshead in crab boil in cheesecloth is what I am talking about you are doing that to mask the flavor of the fish You could put any fish in crab boil and it would be good. It will taste like crab boil


Same with marinating wild game for two days and wrapping it in bacon and grilling it. You are masking the natural flavor for a reason

Eating small bass. Between the three ponds in my family we catch hundreds of 10-12” bass a year to keep them thinned out, alongside lots of bream. I can pick the bass out of the pile every time. They aren’t terrible but are more gamey than the bream and are a pain in the arse to clean with the needle bones along the lateral line.

Oh lawd..... what fish DO you enjoy!?

I’ll email you my address so you’ll know exactly where to dump those nasty arse trout.

Salmon

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salmon

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Will go rainbow trout also. Fun as hell to catch but not very good to eat.

Damn I sound like a fish snob

I fileted some bream last week and they were incredible fried. I was impressed

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People rant over sheepshead

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who the frick rants over sheepshead? Most people only keep them if specs and reds aren't cooperating. That being said, if you want to deal with cleaning them they are great for imitation crab meat

Squirrel

They are probably the most fun thing in the world to hunt, but they're a pain to clean, and don't add much but a bunch of bones to whatever you're cooking.

I'd rather just go out in the woods and shoot em with a paintball gun than deal with trying to clean and cook em.

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i grew up fishing big lake and trout are disgusting

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You're taste buds are broken.