on-line editors,
Please send young Alex something to test so he'll quit posting double/triple BS posts just to get points.

I love fishing and will do t all day, every day if given the chance, but I just don't like eating fish very much. However, both crappie and walleye are fish that I can like on occasion. I like tempura batter with montreal steak seasoning in it.
I recently discovered how good wiper can taste, and I think it beats both walleye and crappie.

When your out fishing and camping your limited on supplies. Fortunatly, crappie doesn't need a gormet chef to make it the Best fish dinner (and I always talk of my love for trout and catfish). Just make a double layer of foil, some lemon juice and butter, and lay seasoned crappy on foil folded. Put it on grill back side of fire. Oh man, Oh man! I've had people who swore they hated fish admit that's good.

I wish I could make homemade Hush Puppies like I ate when I lived in N. Carolina. Never had nothing like them since.

Sunnies(bluegill or pumpkinseed) and crappies can't be beat for a quick shore lunch. Walleye and northerns for dinner. Crunching on the nicely seasoned sunfish tails always brings back great childhood memories.

Its hard to go wrong with any fish "deep fried" especially with a little hot sauce. My vote is Crappie over Walley. But Walley is a close second. I also think crappie are more fun and easy to catch then Walley for the less experienced angle or fishing with the family.

Walleye or perch shore lunch, or trout right next to the stream. I'll crowd the pan with bluegills,too.

Crappie are better than Walleye but my favorite is the Catfish... cut up in small pieces and deep fried ohhhh man it makes me hungry just thinking about it.

Whoa Dr. Ralph :)

I'm an equal opportunity fish fryer. Doesn't matter to me, but if at all possible must be accompanied by hush puppies...mmmm...

Sorry. couldn't resist. I forgot about our salt water options. I'd say orange roughy would be my choice. Maybe with a glass of wine. After that grouper. My favorite fresh water "catch and cook" fish would have to be the walleye.

While Alex has a point, yall are missing out. When my grandmother was still able to cook a large meal my granddad and I would go catch about 50 "squealer" catfish. While I understand "squealer" is a regional term, it is used to describe a catfish that is a 1/2lb. or less. They get that name because of the noises they make when you are unhooking them. Anyway, after catching them we would immediately return home and clean all of them. The catch here was that they ABSOLUTELY could not be filleted. It ruins the taste and waste perfectly good meat. As soon as we were through cleaning them my grandmother would heat up the oil and get to frying. Alongside homemade hush puppies and fries, it was good enough that folks from all around would commit suicide due to the fact there wasn't enough to go around.

Crappie is good, but not as good as squealer catfish in my book. I've never had walleye, so I am not qualified to say that catfish is absolutely the best of any fried fish.

Fresh walleye is pretty good.

True, walleye and crappie both make for excellent table fish when properly prepared; I'd call it a tie, but a pan fried trout fresh from the river has to be a mighty close second.

Crappie, walleye, bluegills, lake perch - to me they are equals battered and fried. Best fish I ever had was a big sardine broiled until it was black in a little two floor restaurant in Swansea, Wales. That was over 10-years ago and I still savor it. Closer to home, broiled or grilled fresh coho.

Do you pronounce it 'cro-pee or 'krap-ee? While I'm a it - ra-'pa-la, 'rap-a-la, or 'ra-pa-la?

I would have to say Crappie, I think it goes back to catching them as a child and having my dad and grandad fry them up with a good beer batter or pancake style batter. We also would clean them and cook them right on the lake shore while camping out, fish always tastes better when you cook it where you caught it.

In my humble opinion,the keyword here is FRESH!
The shorelunch has the charm of freshness, and the best seasoning of all...wait for it...here it comes...HUNGER!

Whether you are grilling Apache Trout over mesquite coals in the mountains of Arizona, pan frying small catfish beside a river in Missouri, deep frying Walleye fillets by a lake in South Dakota,or cooking the whole Smallmouth (gutted but skin on) directly on the coals of a small trail fire, you get the ambience,the satisfaction,the primitive pleasure that dates back to the dawn of man.

I wish I hadn't skipped breakfast now.

You got it Woof!

Gills and Crappies are perfect when you have a big fish fry at the end of a great day of ice fishing. But, when you got a walleye/perch/trout or anykinda trip. The shorelunches can't be beat.

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Walleye #1

Malt vinegar best seasoning on fried fish.

Even better stream- or lake-side.

walleye is good but the best fish i ever had was fresh bluegill sauted in butter and herbs with just a touch of lemon. mmmmm mmmmmm

Crappies? Wipers? Dudes, eat the king of skillet fish, and that is BLUEGILLS!

Walleye or perch shore lunch, or trout right next to the stream. I'll crowd the pan with a blugills, too.

1. fresh canadien walleye on the shore
2. crappie caught fresh and cooked on the shore
3. catfish fresh from the pond
4. mahi mahi grilled with butter and herbs and lemon

You can beer batter anything and its good.