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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sh00ter" data-source="post: 3223598" data-attributes="member: 24531"><p>I grew up with a lake house and fishing men in my family. We were always having fish fries with sandbass, crappie, catfish and sometimes some perch mixed in. I guess I was a picky eater as a kid and so I would eat some but not much when we had it. I think it was a textural issue and also the "fishy" thing. My current stepdad also swears by the lateral line thing. In my journey to rediscover fish as a food source, I have been eating tuna, sardines and some salmon. In the sardine filets it is easy for me to remove the lateral line and throw some hot sauce on them and they are decent. But I want to be able to catch my own food so I am planning to start with crappie/saugeye as I know they will have the best flavor. I have never cared for bass of any kind for eating. I also want to learn to eat squirrel and other small game that are easy to harvest. It is a sign of the times...I know catfish is the most popular fish to eat in the south but I just don't like the idea of them. I'd eat them if they were all I had but I am going to start with crappie as I recall as a kid that was the one I ate the best when we had fish my family caught. LOL hope that explains it all.</p></blockquote><p></p>