Food and Beverage - best fish you have ever had?

so whats the best fish you have ever had?
mine was a 12 lb king salmon that i caught last year and had my girl cook it up in the oven. it was awsome. i only like kings if i can catch them and eat them the same day

My favorite fish is Lake Erie yellow perch. My 2nd favorite was fried hogfish that I had down in Islamorada.

Russ

red snapper sounds good

American Red Snapper HANDS DOWN! You dont even need lemon, or Tartar sauce with it. Extremely moist and Juicy.

Lake Erie perch caught in Feb. ice fishing.Could have been the Manhattens?
NZ red snapper.
San Francisco sword fish.
Dom.Rep. el Dorado.
Zimbabwe , I forget the name;?
Hunt camp bass.Could have been the Manhattens?:thumbsup:

I would love to try ice fishing in the midwest

Pink mountain trout from the Maggie Vally area.
Gf before I moved from Lake Waccamaw. Use to swap with her father, catfish for those trout.. Gf lasted about 2 years but I really miss those fish her father use to bring down to me....:grin:

Permit, grilled w/ salt, pepper, and olive oil.

Blackened redfish.

Top 5 in order...
Swordfish
Hogfish
Tuna
Wahoo
Mahi

Toro snapper!

Barely blackened yellowfin. By barely, I mean rare inside with crisped up blackening seasonings on the outside.

Close second would be wahoo on the grill with some lime, adobo and fresh ground black pepper.

Pompano:thumbsup:
Yellowfin tuna
Trigger fish
Red Snapper
Yellow Tail Snapper

... and maybe one you've caught, but never ate... Nurse Shark:o

Smoked sturgeon. ;) :thumbsup:

fried channel catfish!!!!

Fresh caught (same day) Flounder lightlly dusted in seasoned flour and fried. Crispy on the outside, moist on the inside. Served with slaw and an ice cold beer.

1)snook
2)cobia
3)grouper

:thumbsup:

Fresh caught (same day) Flounder lightlly dusted in seasoned flour and fried. Crispy on the outside, moist on the inside. Served with slaw and an ice cold beer.

Wahoo
Tuna
Red Snapper
Cobia
Swordfish
Fried striped bass(only way I like this one for some reason)
Redfish

Not sure of the order, I could mix it up but all are great to me

Honestly one of the fish I not as fond if is flounder, lot of folks love it and
while not bad not one I go out of my way for

I just cooked blackened red snapper.

Excellent.

Amen to that

Blackfin tuna, caught by me and bled boatside. Wife slathered with EVOO, garlic and ginger, seared in a red hot cast iron pan, served with mashed sweet potato, papaya salad, plantain chips and a 2004 Don Melchor Cabernet.

1) king salmon sashimi....the best way to F-up salmon is to cook it

2) Striper ceviche

Hogfish.

dorado , mahi mahi , dolphin .the best

Like all of them but have to admit my favorite is Wahoo

Lemon fish before it hits any ice, BBQ with lemon slice, fresh fried (FLOUR OR FISH FRY) 12" white trout, specks, Sacalait fileted cooked before it hits any ice.

Almost a tie, fried Grouper, grilled Pompano, or Tuna steak.

Had grilled Mahi at LBs in the Grand Casino (biloxi) a few years back, it was probably one of the best single servings of fish that I have ever had.

I am particularly fond of triple tail

Wahoo
Hogfish
Pompano
Mahi
Mutton (Red)

Hogfish
Cobia
Grouper

I am particularly fond of triple tail

Triple Tail is excelent:thumbsup:

Cobia. Pulled him out of the water, filleted him 20 minutes later, put vegetable/olive oil on the filets, zatarains chicken breading. Put it on tin foil pan on top of the grill.

Amazing.

Blackfin tuna, caught, bled, and iced till cold, then sushi it was!

It was a whole red snapper rubbed with coarse salt and baked....got it in a restaurant in Fajardo, PR.

Yellow perch
Crappie
Blue cat in the 3-5lb range
Mahi
Striper
Croaker
White Perch
White Bass

Basically all fried, but the Mahi and striper are also good poached, baked, etc. Maybe on of these day's I'll catch some interesting offshore fish. I like swordfish if it is about medium rare, inedible when overcooked.

Are we talkin "best fish" or "best fish dish"?

The best fish is easily the gift from God -- tuna -- and it was meant to be caught, filleted, and eaten on the spot -- uncooked.

If we are talking best fish dish, I think wahoo is up there, Icelandic cod, sword fish, halibut all make excellent fish dishes and are better cooked than tuna. Don't get me wrong, tuna is good cooked, but like salmon, has a distinct flavor that narrows the variety of dishes.

A couple days ago cooked some cod Mediterranean style, in vinegar. It is now my fav fish dish.

Are we talkin "best fish" or "best fish dish"?

The best fish is easily the gift from God -- tuna -- and it was meant to be caught, filleted, and eaten on the spot -- uncooked.

If we are talking best fish dish, I think wahoo is up there, Icelandic cod, sword fish, halibut all make excellent fish dishes and are better cooked than tuna. Don't get me wrong, tuna is good cooked, but like salmon, has a distinct flavor that narrows the variety of dishes.

A couple days ago cooked some cod Mediterranean style, in vinegar. It is now my fav fish dish.
Would you please elaborate on that a little, my lady loves black cod (Miso fish) and I can't find a recipe that I like. I've cooked it in a lot of different ways and my lady enjoys it but it amounts to my least favorite fish. It would really be nice if I could find a recipe for cod that we both would like.

I often just cook in the microwave. One time, I took the cod and cooked it in Paul Newman's Vinegar and Olive Oil dressing....that was all it needed and it was great!

Blackfin tuna, caught, bled, and iced till cold, then sushi it was!

Not caught, but speared. Man was that good stuff.

Pompano. Had the pleasure of catching a few in the Port Aransas surf about a month ago. It was the whitest, tastiest fish I've ever had the pleasure of eating. Rubbed it down with butter, seasonings and lemon...baked til meat was flaky. MMMMMM damm good! :thumbsup:

Would you please elaborate on that a little, my lady loves black cod (Miso fish) and I can't find a recipe that I like. I've cooked it in a lot of different ways and my lady enjoys it but it amounts to my least favorite fish. It would really be nice if I could find a recipe for cod that we both would like.


Check your mailbox.

39# 49'' Stripped Bass, on 10# test spinning rod, workin eel's

Hard to beat fresh caught perch or walleye. Many ways to fix it , especially walleye, but I like beer battered the best or coated with Panko and deep fried.

Fried Hake, hours after coming out of the water, best tasting fish I've ever had to date.

Yellowfin Tuna sashimi....

Snook, fixed as fried fingers or in chowder

Tripletail, If you haven't tried a tripletail, you don't know what you are missing!

Red Snapper, mutton snapper, yellowtail snapper

Finally, Grouper

#1 Mahi from Grills in Port Canaveral

#2 Seared Tuna from Grills in Port Canaveral

Grills Riverside in Melbourne is just as good but the atmosphere at the Port is much better. I was there last weekend (3 days straight) and they are talking about building one in Tampa or Orlando. :grin:

Not necessarily the best but I did good Saturday evening.
Almost everybody knows that a wild caught salmon is somewhere between pink and red in flesh color, what everybody doesn't know is the best king salmon ( chinook salmon) is white. Something like 4% of the King Salmon are white and the best king salmon are caught in the wintertime.... the best salmon ever is a Winter White!
Friday evening I'm working late and the skipper of the boat I'm on gets a call, a beautiful, fresh 25 pounds white king was just unloaded from a troller, does he want it? He says yes ( probably cost him close to $10 a pound) and tells them to keep it on ice.
We work until 1:00 in the morning, midday on Thursday we set a 3500 pound Cummins on deck, maneuvered it through his freight door, across the freight room, and into the engine compartment. Before I left we had it sitting on its beds and aligned. He was pretty pleased and shared a chunk of that white king with my lady and I.
We make our own blackened redfish seasoning ( I've mentioned that elsewhere on this forum), I skinned the salmon, dried it, coated it with Virgin olive oil and then blackened redfish seasoning and laid it in a very hot frying pan. Because it was so thick I covered the pan, gave in about 4 min., and flipped it over, and gave it about 2 min., and then I turned off the heat and let it rest, covered for about 6 min.. I cut into it to serve it and the center was just a tiny bit translucent still ( under done is way better than overdone). Served it with squash and coleslaw.... damn that was good :) :thumbsup:

Cant establish a distinct order. All provided incredible meals.

This catch:
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This one (biggest of the day, 15 others in the cooler, 4 person limit):
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Another contender:
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And last but certainly not least:
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grilled scamp it my favorite, then grouper behind it.

Fresh caught (same day) Flounder lightlly dusted in seasoned flour and fried. Crispy on the outside, moist on the inside. Served with slaw and an ice cold beer.

"fluke" up here in NY, amazing

After driving 2 hours in the middle of winter, on a boat for 12 hours, drive back home another 2.5 (rush hour) to put a piece of fresh caught cod or ling in a frying pan covered in panko is like sex

Fresh cuaght fluke fried with penko crumbs and home made tartar sauce, fried grouper sandwich in the keys, grilled rare tuna, just way it over the flames.....

My husband's grilled marinated salmon--his secret recipe. It is so good that I don't eat salmon in restaurants because it won't be as good as my husband's salmon. I am spoiled!

Recently the guys next to our boat in slip caught 3 large stripers--largest was 44". We were so excited and impressed that they gave us one of the catch!!! We took it home to clean and cut up. My husband fried it--it was good but I think it would taste better grilled or broiled.

Mar

Lake Erie perch dusted the deep fried W BEER BATTER

My husband's grilled marinated salmon--his secret recipe.



What is with the secret recipe thing? ;? I'm happy to share and hopefully someone can enjoy making a dish I enjoy making, too.

Not too many fish I do not like but tuna, mahi naturally come to the top but I have to admit the two best fish I have EVER had are

Wahoo, guess because for some reason they do not serve it in restaurants that often. One of the restaurants near our house in Charleston SC will have it on the daily menu during summer a lot of times(Sullivan's)

Pompano, not sure if it is because I do not catch many of these but the ones I have had are GREAT:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Dolphin, Wahoo, Tripletail - grilled with olive-oil and seasoning of your choice
Ahi Tuna
Fried Walleye
Bacon-wrapped grilled shrimp (shellFISH, right?)
Tile
Smoked swordfish

Halibut steak, then Walleye, then Blue Back Trout.

Our family's Christmas eve dinner follows a Polish tradition of a "no meat" 7 or 11 course dinner. We alternate years and this year was ours.
We made a Chilean Sea Bass over a ratatouille in parchment paper with an herb salad garnishing.
The sea bass was a 6 3/4 pound single fillet. It was the sweetest and most buttery fish I have ever had. It took up an entire large cookie sheet and was 4 inches thick in the belly. It was unbelievable.
The fish cost $120....It was worth it....

We all know you remember everything tasting much better when your wasted and starving. I believe this may be the case here, but I don't remember anything tasting better than a freshly caught and cooked snook at 3am. It's been years since I've had it, but I don't remember anything ever tasting better.

For what I have frequently...Gag, Red, Hogfish, Mangrove Snap, Red Snap, Mahi, Tuna. I believe I favor blackened mahi. Strangely, hogfish is lower on my list, maybe because I have it so often. The opposite is true for Mahi, usually only 4-5x a yr.

Coconut Hogfish at the glass bottom restaurant in key largo!
Just caught yellowfin tuna that was lightly seared and some jalapeño spices mixed with soy sauce.

Best eaten out, Chinook salmon in a puffed pastry, smothered in lobster bisque, and I'm not a big fan of salmon as a rule. At home, hard to say, fresh bass, perch, or speckled trout fillets, salt, black and red pepper, seared in olive oil.

I eat a ton of dolphin, however, I don't think its the best quality fish. I eat it because it is fairly easy to catch a dinners worth.

I love:

Tuna
Snook
Snapper (red, hog, or yellowtail)

I know it's not good for the environment, but my favorite restaurant fish is

Chilean Seabass

Triggerfish
Pompano
Yellowfin tuna
Now I've got to go catch some white bass (yep, I love 'em) for dinner tomorrow

Blackened Mahi.

Another vote for Gulf rock bass-got to be the whitest, flakiest meat we catch around here. I love some fried spanish mackeral too.

Fresh Tuna, thinly sliced, slightly chilled.

Maybe some good quality Tamari and Wasabi

Tripletail
Hogfish
Porgy
Mutton snapper
Black Grouper
Sword fish

Jack crevalle with mullet roe :thumbsup:



...ok, red snapper w/ mango salsa it is

i've eaten fish from all over the world and i've never had anything that even compares to hawaiian moi

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