Blue Gills

[eyeguy 54]

Are STILL my favorite!!

[IceHawk]

Nothing better other than perch IMO! Now the best is if there pan fried and scaled

[Rick G]

though perch are one of the better tasting fish I am going to have to agree with Eyeguy on this, gills are still my favorite. Those ones in the pic look just about done I'm on my way over, I got the dinner rolls and the potato salad

[hockeybc69]

Hawk has my vote... PERCH!

Although, if you tossed them gills in front of me, I aint gonna turn them away.

[pike79]

Eyeguy 54, Butter, lard or oil?

[pushbutton]

Another vote for the gills....pain to clean, but the 6 to 6 1/2 inchers are the best tasting/texture fish out there!

[dan z]

Gills = best tasting fish! if the little ones weren't a pain in the silly me to clean I would keep them. Cold water mud rockets ( bullheads) are darn tasty too.

[LittleHuck]

Couldn't agree more! Crisco, shore lunch, a couple minutes on each side, couple of icy Schell's and I'm in heaven!

[water rat]

Me too!! Pound for pound,the best fighting fish and my Favorite to eat too!!

Crappies and perch sure do fillet a bit better....

[eyeguy 54]

7 to 8 inchers I keep for the pan. kept 14 yesturday to feed 3 of us for supper. threw back a truckload of smaller ones, had 17 we kept but left 3 outside by a hole and the ravens stole them! lol Canola oil and some butter in the pan. And i just use plain flower with some lemon pepper and cajon powder mixed in. simple and tastey. I do like perch and pretty much all fish but I love gills.

last nights batch ready for the pan

[TruthWalleyes]

I have got to give this Crisco a try.

[LABS4ME]

even better! go Canadian shore lunch all the way... a brick of lard in a cast iron skillet! We do the occassional winter fish fry outside, campfire, big black skillet and lard for the deep fat...

And people think their Canadian shor elunch tastes good because they are hungry! It tastes good cuz' it's not good for you! meat fried in meat!!! nice!

Good Luck!

Ken

[eyeguy 54]

crisco is for popcorn

[blue_healer_guy]

+1

[Rip_Some_Lip]

Try the butter flavor crisco, thats what i like.

[eyeguy 54]

Used it years ago and liked it. Just didn't care for scooping it out of the can. So I melt a little butter in canola.

[davidbigreelz]

ahh man this is givin me a rumbly in my tumbly, haha. +1 for crisco makin everything better

[DeBitesOn]

When I was a kid, we fried our gills scaled and whole in a cast iron fry pan using just salt and pepper. Fried them in lard and butter on a wood fired outside cooker. Nothing better.

[eyeguy 54]

too much work for me to eat them that way.

[BehindtheHead]

my buddys mom renders lard from hogs. sunfish filleted with the skin on...cook them in lard......mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm tasty. best fish EVER