Yes, I've caught both, and both are tasty. Up here, we buy fresh cod,
halibut, flounder, and salmon, the latter allegedly from Alaska.
Neither my wife nor I much like the taste of striped bass.
When I was a kid, I used to like to catch porgies. As a little kid, I'd
go out almost every morning with a retired printer from whom my parents
rented a cottage. He was a hell of a fisherman. I was too small to clean
the fish, so whatever I brought back, he'd clean while I watched, and
I'd give at least two mealsworth to my mom to cook up. We used sandworms
for bait. On the way back, we'd troll for stripers along a rocky
waterfront and sometimes get lucky.
One of my favorite fish in Florida was whiting, which we thought had a
fine delicate taste. Easy to catch, too. Our neighbor from across the
street, who was from the Philippines, would only take the heads, never
the filets. She made a soup of of them. It drove her husband nutso,
because the soup had the fish eyeballs floating in them, and the sight
of them made him queasy, or so he claimed. Also liked kingfish and
Spanish mack steaks, and all the flounder we caught under the boat docks
at the marinas in St. Augustine. Florida has terrific salt-water
fishing. Up here, in the Bay, it is in comparison mediocre.
When I was up there Rock Fish were still rare and protected.
The best catch was croakers or sea trout if you could get away from
the blue fish. (fishing below Tangier Island on the cliffs)
When we had a decent price on blue fish we would get some but I don't
want to eat them myself. Usually we would just run from them.
Bluefish take a bum rap. They're fun to catch, if you're careful. If you
handle them carefully and cook them properly, they make wonderful steaks
and fillets. More tasty than any of the common cold water whitefish.
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