What Have you Eaten?

[united jigsticker]

I've done Rock Bass one time just "to see"...

They tasted like Crappie, but I haven't eaten them since.

What have some of you tried???

Bullhead are good...IMO.

[Gissert]

I've had rock bass a few times. Not bad at all, IMO.

[BigWadeS]

I haven't ventured too far off of the main game fish, but I have heard sheep-head/freshwater drum are good smoked...I might try this out this summer

[Ralph Wiggum]

I've eaten rock bass and thought they were fine. I'm planning on eating a few sheephead this weekend, and I'll try to remember to report back. Bullheads are good. Snapping turtles are excellent, but I have no idea how to clean them myself. Other than that, nothing too unusual.

[harvey lee]

smoked bullheads,carp,eel pout,racoon,smoked sucker.Yes,I do eat normal food.

[hogsucker]

Never tried a Rock Bass. Sheephead are pretty good. I ate some from the Croix I caught through the ice this year, and was suprised at thier good flavor. Just fried them, and it was a very firm meat, but good. Another favorite of mine are Redhorse patties. I use Golden and Shorthead Redhorse. Filet them and put them through a grinder, then add bread crumbs, onions and whatever and fry up the patties.....delicious! Of course, Burbot are my favorite. White Bass are also good, just get all of the dark meat off the filet before cooking them. A lot of non-traditional food fish have this dark meat along the skin, and it must be removed before cooking. I'd like to try a Gar this summer. ~hogsucker

[stick]

This is so funny! I was just intending on posting if anyone has ever eaten rock-bass. They are right next to bluegills/sunfish in the org-chart (a very close cousin). Why do you suppose people don't normally eat many of the game-fish out there? I consider myself a walleye-snob, but have started learning to fillet and eat pike and other types of fish, and they are good.

[Ely Lake Expert]

No rockbass for me, but if anyone wants to try, you can come fishing with me and help get rid of the overpopulation of them in Ely Lake.

[lawdog]

When I was growing up we used to fish panfish on the Mississippi River with my grandpa near Trempeleau WS. all the time. We always kept rock bass right along with the bluegills and ate them without ever thinking twice about it. I've eaten plenty of bullheads (spring catch only) over the years too.

Never eaten anything stranger than that though and don't plan on starting now!!!

[troutmaster]

The Other Day i Seen a Bunch Of Hmongs Eating raw Sheephead!Right On the Dock! That Was Weird.

[Fishin4Life]

Filleted up a rock bass the other night from White Bear, but it had a bunch of black spots all over the fillet, didn't look right to me so I had to toss it. It looked ok before I cut it up, is this normal?

[EatSleepFish]

fishin4life- those spots are called blackspot disease, not kidding, it is a parasite that lives in snails and then eventually finds a fish to live in. although unsightly, it doesnt harm humans.

[troutmaster]

i guess it must be there sushi?

[DMC5]

Funny, my brother just happened to try Rock Bass this last weekend and said they were quite good. I was suprised to learn that bullhead are good eating when taken from clear water...

[TurnUpTheFishing]

I have heard rockbass have lots of bones, is this the case? If not I may have to keep a few and give them a try.

[Gissert]

It is not that they have more bones, but their rib cage is rather large for a fish of that size.

[SteveWilson]

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The Other Day i Seen a Bunch Of Hmongs Eating raw Sheephead!Right On the Dock! That Was Weird.

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Raw or did they fillet it up and mix it with some lemmon (or lime), fish sauce, chilli, and garlic? If you use a bit of salt and lemmon that will chemically cook the fish. I don't like fish that way (my wife does bass that way) but shrimp is yummy that way.

[The Grebe]

Oh, let me see? I've eaten Smelt, Perch, all varieties of Sunfish, White and black Crappies, Walleye, Sauger, Largemouth and Smallmouth bass, Rockbass, White Bass, Northerns, Black and Yellow Bullheads, Flathead and Channel Catfish, Brook, Brown and Rainbow Trout, Various kinds of Salmon, Eelpout, Suckers, Carp and maybe one or two species here and there that I have forgotten about, turtle also.

I've tried a bunch of different kinds of ocean fish, my favorites to date being Cod, Halibut, Ocean Perch and Pollock. I thought of two more that I have tried, Tullibee ans Whitefish.

[The Grebe]

For all you future Rock Bass eaters out there...the main knock on Rock Bass is the nasty looking yellow grubs you find coiled up in the meat, usually around the backbone...really unappetizing...survival food!

[senkoskipper]

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The Other Day i Seen a Bunch Of Hmongs Eating raw Sheephead!Right On the Dock! That Was Weird.

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WHAT ARE HMONGS? ARE THEY SOME KIND OF ANIMAL ?

[Mr. Pike1]

I found out from my wife that while at the cabin on the Big V last weekend they kept and ate rock bass and to my horror some smallmouth. She told me they tasted excellent. Her mother is also a fantastic cook so I do not doubt whatever she cooked up would taste excellent.

I am going to have to get them turned back on to walleye to protect my smallies on the big V

[The Grebe]

Mr. Pike...The Rock Bass taste good alright, I used to eat them all the time when I was a kid. It's when I got older and found out about the grubs...yuk!

The White fish we got in the past, throught the ice, up near Alexandria, also had those grubs...didn't know it until after they were smoked...Yuk! No more trips for Whitefish! I don't know where the ones from Moreys come from, but they are clean...expensive, but clean.

I really like fish, but I try to keep my parasite eating at a minimum if I can help it!

[ocf]

i dont eat rock bass because they have harder time digesting worms and other things if you have a cat cut it up and feed it to them it also takes care of the over population on ida im gonna weigh 1 sometime because i swear ive caught a 3 pound rock bass there

[Mr. Pike1]

OCF you should put them on a scale the state record is 2lbs. I am under the belief that I have caught many on the river that were in excess of 2lbs

[ocf]

What do you get for a state record