Vic Smith wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:28:40 -0500, HK wrote:


They're ok eating in the smaller sizes, and they are easy to catch. For
reasons I don't understand, they seem to fight hard in the colder, New
England salt waters.

Asked my Dad yesterday, and he said he's only seen a couple in all his
Florida fishing years, and never caught one, though he never went
after them either. Agree that the bigger fish aren't as good-tasting,
so I just might not go after them unless I release.
My dad's favorite eating fish is the sand perch. He can still stand
there for an hour filleting them to get a couple pounds of meat, and
he can hardly stand. They do taste good.

--Vic


Salt water stripers are not common in florida's ocean waters. In fact, I
never caught one down there. But...when we went up to georgia and fished
some of the rivers and inlets near the ocean, we'd see the occasional
striper.

Sand perch are delicious.

My favorite little fishes in florida were whiting. Small, caught on bits
of shrimp, delicious fillets. Next on my taste list were flounder.
Steaked out kingfish fillets, properly cooked, were good. Also liked sea
bass. Around here in the bay nothing competes in taste with flounder,
though. I think I like sea trout second after flounder.