Eating fresh water fish?

[jet]

you guys eat LMB, SMB, Crappie, sunfish, other sweet water fish, etc?

[imagine29028]

I wouldnt eat BASS....but crappie apparently are good.

[Snakehead Hunter]

Depend on where you fish, if you fish from local lake it probably safe to eat all your catches. I wouldn't eat bottom feeder from Potomac such as catfish, carp, eel, the rest are good I think.

you guys eat LMB, SMB, Crappie, sunfish, other sweet water fish, etc?

[jet]

beyond being safe, have you guys tried any of them? any good? out west, you can find tons of youtubes vids of them enjoying fish(but thats all they got), not so much around the mid atlantic. i have seen shore fisherman on the upper potomac and md/va lakes with buckets and coolers keeping fish so was curious.

[Snakehead Hunter]

I know that snakehead, perch, LMB, crappie, striper, catfish are all good eating.

[jffoley]

you guys eat LMB, SMB, Crappie, sunfish, other sweet water fish, etc?

NO! They live downriver from a major city. What do you do in that bathroom every day!??!

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[jsquare]

When I visited relatives in the Carolinas we used to catch crappie and sunfish in a local pond. My folks would dredge it in corn meal, and fry it with hush puppies. It was tasty, but anything fried and served with hush puppies is tasty. But I've never found panfish like these to be worth the time and effort to cook myself.

Yellow perch is delicious. Snakehead is a delicious, firm, and versatile fish, and you get a lot of meat off one. I usually steer clear of catfish, though I have eaten channel cats and found them to be tasty.

Overall, saltwater fish just taste better in my opinion.

[jsquare]

NO! They live downriver from a major city. What do you do in that bathroom every day!??!

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The unfortunate truth. Our areas sweetwater is not very sweet.

[jet]

NO! They live downriver from a major city. What do you do in that bathroom every day!??!

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what do you think the chesapeake bay is? 6 states and 64k square miles of plumbing to the bay...flush! BUT my point is, imagine if the FW fish lived in a deer park water bottle, do these sweetwater fish taste ok?

[jsquare]

Freshwater fish taste fine overall. Some, like yellow perch, are excellent. I will say that I have had freshwater white perch and saltwater white perch and thought the saltwater ones tasted better.

[Shady]

Taken a few LMB from Loch Raven in my day, pretty good to eat IMHO. If you can catch Blue gill big enough to make them worth cleaning, there isn't a better eating fish out there...
I also put my fair share of stocked trout in my freezer, but I guess that doesn't really count...

[jet]

^lol, yeah, i wasnt thinking stocked trout either

[Mike]

I'm originally from the Cape Cod area,the lakes up there are crystal clear, just like that Deer Park bottle. I've eaten LMB, yellow perch, bluegill, and various trout. Trout and bluegill are great, perch is good, bass was just ok. (I've also had catfish and tilapia at restaurants and love both of them.)

Mike

[jffoley]

what do you think the chesapeake bay is? 6 states and 64k square miles of plumbing to the bay...flush! BUT my point is, imagine if the FW fish lived in a deer park water bottle, do these sweetwater fish taste ok?

I don't eat anything from the Chesapeake either! However, FW fish from clean water are tasty. I remember taking a LMB from a stained lake and it tasted like mud. Took one from a clear, drinking water reservoir and the meat was white, flaky and tasty.

But, keep in mind there's a reason for those fish consumption advisories:

http://www.chesapeakebay.net/blog/po..._bay_watershed

http://www.mde.maryland.gov/programs...ies%202011.pdf

http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/Epidemio...gy/Advisories/

http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/fw/Fis...sory_Chart.pdf

PCB's, Yum!

[ILV2F5H]

what do you think the chesapeake bay is? 6 states and 64k square miles of plumbing to the bay...flush! BUT my point is, imagine if the FW fish lived in a deer park water bottle, do these sweetwater fish taste ok?

Your analogy cracks me up. The only freshwater fish Ill eat and are tasty are yellow perch, snakehead, walleye, crappie, white perch and sunfish if they're big enough. Oh and blue cats from certain rivers. Bass are good but they are a sport fish in my mind.