best-tasting fish?

[shoot]

What kind of Alberta fish tastes best? I've never been fishing, nor have I eaten any Alberta fish. I grew up in Nova Scotia, so have had lots of ocean fish. So, what's the best eatin' around these parts?

[Lefty-Canuck]

Personally like wall-eye and perch, pike sans bones is good too.

Lefty

[Vega21]

Perch by far

[Scotty P.]

There are alot I haven't tried but IMHO it would be nice fat Perch. Not just the meat but the row sacks as well. It may sound a little gross but breaded and fried in butter, the row sacks are delish! I have heard Walleye is great but I haven't tried it yet myself.

[Scotty P.]

Originally Posted by Lefty-Canuck

Personally like wall-eye and perch, pike sans bones is good too.
Lefty

Also very good but I seem to preferr them if caught during the hard water season.

[Hoyt82]

Walleye then perch a close second

[RayL42]

Trout if it is caught out of the correct lake.

[the local angler]

i normally would choose perch too but seem to like the high mountian stream brookies and also burbot.

[S-in-Cochrane]

Walleye! Though I've yet to eat one from Alberta.

[Outt and Aboutt]

Walleye, hands down.
Perch is very close, but after cleaning 20 perch for a family meal I'm not in as good a mood!
Pike is next.
That said I do enjoy a good trout (but not as much as a good walleye).

whitefish, trout, grayling, pike, etc. Too many to choose from. In my experience, if the water is fresh and clean, the fish will taste fresh and clean.

[Robotfish]

I would say Bourbot, walleye, and trout. But it's all in how you prepare them.

[finsnfeathers]

Def. walleye, but in alberta, i've been told your best bet is Costco... Sure wish we could get more fisheries stocked with them. I hate fishing at the grocery store!

[fishstalker]

by far

brook trout cooked in a pan with some salt and pepper

but frenchman (burbot) pike perch other trout, its good too

[trigger7mm]

Perch!!!!

[ironbadger]

Burb, pike from hard water, walleye well prepared trout, chubby perch. I haven't had Sauger-- I assume similar to walleye? I've not tried eating a Frenchman yet. lol

[Dust1n]

Originally Posted by fishstalker

by far

brook trout cooked in a pan with some salt and pepper

but frenchman (burbot) pike perch other trout, its good too

x2 small mountain streem trout are by far the best imo
and burbot tastes pretty good too....
Salmon would be the best saltwater

[Fishgut]

Perch, Burbot, Walleye, Pike, Sucker, Whitefish, Trout,

[ESOXangler]

red angus cross

[deanmc]

Originally Posted by ESOXangler

red angus cross

lol Easy to fillet too.

My vote is for perch.

[Cal]

I used to think walleye and perch were the best, then I went to Panama and had Pargo which I think is some kind of snapper. I havnt eaten a fish that can touch fresh Pargo.

[ishootbambi]

eat fish? are you kidding? what kind of fool kills fish in alberta? dont you know how few fish bearing lakes there are in this province? cmon you guys.






























of course im kidding. i dont eat em myself, but have no ill will toward those who do keep a couple.

[marlin1]

perch , burbot

[Jwood 456]

For freshwater fish:

1. Perch deepfried in batter.
2. Walleye cooked in Ritz cracker crumbs and Becel.
3. Pike deepfried in mango juice flavoured batter.
4. Baked or panfried Rainbow Trout

For Salt-water fish:

1. Halibut.
2. Haddock.
4. Pacific Ling Cod.
5. Smoked Pacific Salmon
6. Atlantic Amberjack
7. Atlantic cod.

[New Hunter Okotoks]

Walleye (I catch mine at Costco) I ended up eating a 21lb Pike out of Badger this year that wasn't going to make it. It was really good. I never thought a big hen like that would taste so good. It was just as good as the 6-8lb pike I have eaten in the past.

I tried some burbot that was taken out of PCR and found it really muddy tasting.

[KegRiver]

For taste alone, I'll take Goldeye over any other.

For best eating, taste + texture. Walleye beyond a doubt.

Sadly not much of either left in these parts. To many poachers.

When thirty or forty people set up a fish cannery at your favourite fishing hole for a week or more every year, it isn't long befor there isn't anything left for anyone else.

Throw in a few treaty nets setters and the rest of us may as well stay at home or do our fishing at the grocery store.

[mulecrazy]

My rank of the ones I have tried in AB are:

Walleye
Perch
Pike (would be higher if not for the pain to debone them)
Burbot
trout

and way way down the list:

goldeye.


Kegriver, How do you cook goldeye to make them edible? I tried them once and thought they were horrendous.

[The DragonSlayer]

In order: Burbot, walleye, perch (especially smoked), trout (out of cold water), whitefish.
You may notice that I didn't list pike!!

[Albertafisher]

Trout. Hands down..... Even raw

[great white whaler]

rocky mountain brookies,,,,,,and rainbows.yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm,along with a slice of toast,and a cup of red rose.