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Just wondering how many Az. guys actually eat thier fish.I love them.It's like grabbing a bag of chips sometimes.I've been eating them whole with the pectorial fin removed and the back split down to the back bone.Meat just pulls loose in a slab.4 1/2 inchers are too,too hard to fillet.And there are billions of them out there.
Folks claim that bluegills taste real good. Of course folks say the same thing about crappie, catfish and walleye. The only kind of fish I like to eat is sashimi
with some soy sauce, wasabe and an ice cold Asahi.... now your talking.
I love to catch and eat bluegills...thats my favorite fish to eat. Crappie is next. :)
I know they a hundred times better then green carp,lol.I like my crap cooked.
Whenever I have just a few hours to fish, I take my boys and neices and we head to the ponds close to the house and catch those little bluegill. I never thought of eating them because I figured they wouldn't have much meat so we just throw them back. The only ones we keep are the big bluegill that you can fillet. I am going to start keeping those smaller ones to give them a try.
I have a question kinda off the subject. The bluegill that we catch have yellow tips on their fins, neon blue lines around the head area and they have a big mouth where you can actually lip them. I call them bluegill but what are they really? Anyone know?
The big mouth seems to describe a "red-eye" or a warmouth bass. You
can check pics on google to see which one fits your catch best! Both
are fine eating.
Team- You are describing a green sunfish.
Thank you Cricket George. All I can say is those sunfish are beautiful and they can sure swallow a big bait. We have a blast catching them with the little kids.
Just finished filleting a mess of big gills from Douglas Lake, TN...yum, yum!
Nothing better than a bream for eating. Actually it is the only fish I eat.
Bluegill taste great. You have a video of how you handle the small ones for cooking and eating?
You'll have to come on the boat with me and film one Chris,lol.Better be quick,I'm a pig when it comes to eating bluegill.
Last week, my wife, 13 year old son and I ate 35 bluegill fillets for supper. I deep fry 5 fillets at a time the small electric deep fryer. They are great! I caught 20 nice 9/10" shellcrackers yesterday. I don't think we will be able to eat 35 of them. Maybe 20 or 25.
If I could eat 35 11 inch bluegills,I WOULD,lol.
Sounds tasty to me.
Let me clear this up. We ate 35 fillets = 17 1/2 bluegill. lol. My wife ate 36 frog legs one night (not 36 frogs). She was pregnant at the time, our son was born the next night!Quote:
Originally Posted by azslabber
Man its amazing how different people are on the other side of the country...Lol
After they are caught,we all put them in our mouthes the same,lol.
I don't believe I would'a told that!:D You know she will hear about it and then... Well, I just wouldn't a told it. :D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by crappiecrazy
We sometimes fry them whole and nibble the crispy part of the fins, then pull the dorsal and pectoral fins and flake the sides off with a fork. Even the small ones are easy to fillet. There is a great thread over on the bream forum on filleting.
I have one friend that eats them with grits and eggs for breakfast. :cool:
He was'nt hopping around too much,was he???lol