Best Tasting Fish Through the Ice

[Guest]

What type of fish do you prefer on the table caught ice fishing? And do you prefered fried, baked, sauteed, etc.

I'm going to have to put a check in the perch column. Fresh perch caught ice fishing are awesome. Crappies and gills come in a close second. Put the filets in some shore lunch (a bit of cajun too) or other batter and fry till perfection. I'm geeting hungry just thinking about it.

Good Fishin, Matt.

[rap]

put another mark in the perch column..

[Guest]

1. Sunfish
2. Perch
3. Crappie
4. Walleye
5. Whitefish
6. Northern Pike

[Surface Tension]

Brook trout fried in butter

[Jig stick]

1.Yellow Perch(deep fried in beer batter)2.Crappie (in beer batter) 3.bluegill (in beer batter) 4.Bullheads(fried in crisco)5.Rainbow trout(sau-ted in butter sauce)

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[Jimmy]

Crappie/gills

Jimmy

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[Guest]

Ciscoes (tullibees) belong on the list, so too for brown trout.

[Guest]

I have a great liking for fishing on LOW once in awhile in a rented sleeper off Rocky Point. Nothing beats the flavor of fresh fried saugers that run small. They promote "catch and eat" and we listen.......ever eat some eelpout? I eat bluegill all summer long because the lake I'm on is loaded. Small walleyes run a close second for me to those saugers.......T

[Deitz Dittrich]

I'll throw another vote for Perch...

Then sunfish
and crappie a close third...

[Ishmel]

Perch
Sunfish
Walleye
Crappie
Pike

Favorite is fried in the fishouse for breakfast.

[Jim W]

Mud Puppy

[Surface Tension]

Clayton Diskerud ya smoked ciscoes get a vote too.

[Steve Foss]

Depends on my mood. Here are my two favorites.

1. Any of the chars (lake trout, brook trout here), skin left on, broiled or grilled with skin side down, garnished with oil, spices and sliced tomatoes.
2. Pike fingers, lightly fried in Fryin' Magic or Shore Lunch.
3. Got a buddy who swears by a crappie fillet and raw sliced onion sandwhich on toast.

[Guest]

1. perch
2. crappies
3. Walleye
4. Northern
5. Trout

[berfish]

crappies deep fried and beerbattered.
walleyes deep fried and beerbattered.
oh yes did i mention ice cold beer served with them.
bf

[Guest]

1)Crappie broiled or deep fried
2)Perch Deep fried
3)Small 'eyes deep fried
4)Gills in chowder
5)Burbot, yes, Burbot broild and dipped in Butta

[Jim W]

Mud Puppy

[White-tips]

Nothing compares to the delicious taste of "Fresh Water Lobster". The backstraps of a big eelpout when prepared properly and dipped into a roasted garlic butter sauce is better than anything you could ever order at Red Lobster or any other restaurant.

[Guest]

White-tips,
How do you prefer to prepare yuor burbot?

[hawgTime]

1. Sunnies fried in butter
2. Walleyes beer-battered and deepfried
3. Perch beer-battered and deepfried

[Guest]

Yellow Perch deep fried in "Shore Lunch Cajun Style Mix".

[Guest]

1. Pan Fish (crappies sunnies perch)
2. Walleye
3. Pike

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FISHSTUNNER

[White-tips]

Best way to prepare eelpout or bourbot is to gently boil the back straps in a mixture of 1/2 water and 1/2 7up or Sprite. Gently boil for 12-15 minutes or until nice and pearly white. Then grab a fork and try outstabbing the other guys in the group on the way to the butter dish!

P.S. Attn. L.O.W. fisherpeople!!: Please do not leave this fish to freeze on the ice. If you do not like the taste or are too much of a skirt wearer to keep and eat an eelpout, LET THE **** THING GO BACK one-who-thinks-I-am-silly!!!

[fiskyknut]

I'm on LOTW 3 times a week at least in the winter and I don't leave anything on the ice so don't blame it on me! My Lab leaves things though! Gotta be those tourists! Iowans and New yorkers most likely!

Kidding aside my favorite eats in the winter are, in no particular order.

Beer battered {modified Drakes} Perch fillets.

Poached burbot loins with seasoned butter. These are also great in a chowder.

Broiled Lake Whitefish with Montreal chicken spice.

I don't even keep Walleye or Saugers in the winter except on occasion to give to my folks or the in-laws.

[Guest]

ccnyjr,
Its good to see another Shore Lunch Cajun lover. I use it a lot when fryin crappies, gills, and perch. Gives you that little bit of heat that goes along way. Good choice.

Good Fishin, Matt.