edit : my bad thouggt this was the section.

Looks great!

Did this yesterday with trout stocked in the community lake.

Colt.45 what did you batter your fish with? Mine is coors light, flour and Slap Ya Mama white pepper blend with a few secret extra spicy ingredients.

Mixed 1/2 &1/2

I cooked fish tonight as well. Mostly Sandbass but a few Crappie mixed in from last summer. I use the Louisiana fish batter as well but I use the one with the corn flour base instead of the corn meal base. It gives it a lighter crust.

I like plain corn meal, Slap Ya Mama, and garlic powder.

why would ya wanna " slap ya momma? "
tis a that B a brand name...
have used the corn meal, not able ta find the one with corn fllour (Louisiana).
always enjoyed the sandbass, they should be running , forget when they start.
hook_n_line they used ta release trout in Tyler State Park, just down road were lived.
enjoyed all input...
Best wish's...

Good to go colt

Very in fish batter.

hook_n_line havent seen that here yet...
it probley melt the snow off D boots...

I sprinkle it on the concrete blocks of the camp house too. No mice get in the camp house any more but late a at night I can here mouse sneezes on under the porch.

If you're in the DFW area you really need to run up to Beaver's Bend if you like trout. IMO the trout up there taste much better and are much bigger. Probably from the same hatchery - but the cleaner water makes them taste much better IMO.

Not sure if it was the water or what, but I took my little boy the last 2 years for the trout stocking in local park ponds etc. and they had a very off taste to them both times. My boy loves fish and wouldn't eat them. I ate them but it was far from what I would call good fish.

Think this year we are just gonna go chase some white bass and leave the trout alone.

I've noticed that when we catch fish out of ponds with lots of vegetation in them.

Looks dayum good Colt what kind of fish was it?

Perch...hmm, has anyone wrapped fish in bacon ?
Do my fish in deepfrier, kinda-sorda-maybe...
Once & awhile in fry pan...
Have noticed the taste of fish tis differant in lakes..
As kid remember going up north for sunfish. Uncle had a pontoon.
20+ft deep & water so clear could see D fish...

Have never wrapped fish in bacon.... hmmmmm

I ate a lot of perch bream blue gill whatever you want to call them, im front Texas and they are perch to me! lol

Fished a lot at my grandmothers farm in Clifton on a spring fed creek, they were always good eating.

I've wrapped fresh black fin tuna and deer backstrap in bacon on the gill.

All looks great!

Perch is actually a type of cold water fish that is from up north. The bluegill and sunfish you’re used to are not perch.

Sure they are. They are whatever name you regionally know them as or whatever you used growing up with. I grew up calling sunfish "Perch" as did all my friends. And as did my Father and my Grandfather when taking me fishing all my life. They were from western Oklahoma and I suppose that is what they always called any variety of sunfish up there. Kids I knew that moved here from up north called Sunfish "Bream" pronounced "breem". And while vacationing with my parents in Florida every year, I remember Snow Birds calling Bream "Brim" which I later learned would be the Brit way of saying it. A real Bream or "Brim" is a type of minnow that those Euro anglers fish for across the Big Pond. And of course the Atlantic Ocean is not really a pond and vacationing North Easterners are not really Birds.

Other fish names I have always used and heard in Texas that technically are not right are Mudcats for all species of Bullhead Catfish though I always knew local old timers would be talking about Flatheads when talking about Mud Cats. I also grew up using "Goggle Eye" for Warmouth and still do. White Bass will as always roll off my tongue as a "Sand Bass". I have always used and heard people in Texas say "Rio Grande Perch. Really a Cichlid. Then there is that crazy Bowfin that has more regional names than any of them. I like to use the original Choctaw name Choupique for them pronounced "Shoe Pick". I met someone on Caddo lake once calling them "Mud Trout", but if I were to tell them their "Mud Trout" is not really a Trout they would probably give me the same duh look I would give you when you told me my "Perch" is not really a Perch.