Fried Crappie for Supper

[Tyme2fish]

Just fried a mess of crappie for dinner. Dipped in a milk/egg bath, coated with 10,000 Lakes Seasoned fish coating and deep fried in peanut oil.<br />Side dishes of pork and beans and some fried tators with onions.<br />Yeh, a lot of fried stuff but we only do that once in a while. Sure was good eating.

 

[Elmer Fudge]

Re: Fried Crappie for Supper

WHAT! No hush puppies and tartar sauce?

 

[Tyme2fish]

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I don't list condiments like tartar sauce. <br />Didn't feel like messing with the hush puppies. Tators were easier to fix.

 

[Pony]

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Sounds like neary every Friday Night Fish Fry here in Wisconsin

 

[BoatBuoy]

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Crappie is hard to beat. They're not large, but they are tasty.

 

[heycods]

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Any leftovers ill be right there. It might take a few minutes.

 

[Pony]

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IMHO I'll take a gill over a crappie. But I wont turn down a crappie either.

 

[Tyme2fish]

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Originally posted by heycods:<br /> Any leftovers ill be right there. It might take a few minutes.

Myself,wife,two sons,one son's girlfriend,and another guest. What are "leftovers."

 

[LubeDude]

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We used to have a pond behind a house we lived in. When we would get unexpected company around dinner time I would hand everyone a pole and tell them they had to go down to the pond and catch at least ten Bluegill perperson for dinner. Hard to beat any kind of sunfish for table fare. OK, Halibut is good too.

 

[Tyme2fish]

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Crappie is hard to beat. They're not large, but they are tasty. <br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />IMHO I'll take a gill over a crappie. But I wont turn down a crappie either.<br /><br />These crappie were caught this past spring at Lake Barkley in Kentucky. All of them were "slabs", most being over 16 inches long with wide shoulders.<br /><br />I agree that gills are fine table fare, bur why would we fish for gills when the slab crappie were<br />eating our bait?

 

[BoatBuoy]

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Gills are mighty fine, but to fillet em is tedious.

 

[FSHKPR]

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Originally posted by Elmer Fudge:<br /> WHAT! No hush puppies and tartar sauce?

tarter sauce? what something wrong with the fish? <br />gotta agree with pony again take a gill over a crappie anytime. local pub here has all you can blue gills $9.99, usually you can find me there on a friday night.

 

[Pony]

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Originally posted by BoatBuoy:<br /> Gills are mighty fine, but to fillet em is tedious.

True, but after about 20 of them you get into a rythm. Thats pretty much all I fish for all summer with my dad and grandpa......Cleaning: 1 scaler, 1 fileter, 1 that does whichever is needed. When the limit was 50 a person I remember doing a mess of 150 gills in an hour between the three of us.<br /><br />And I do fish for crappies in the spring, they are tasty for sure..........