How Many of you Guys Eat Bluegills??

[azslabber]

Just wondering how many Az. guys actually eat thier fish.I love them.It's like grabbing a bag of chips sometimes.I've been eating them whole with the pectorial fin removed and the back split down to the back bone.Meat just pulls loose in a slab.4 1/2 inchers are too,too hard to fillet.And there are billions of them out there.

[jimeisaac]

Folks claim that bluegills taste real good. Of course folks say the same thing about crappie, catfish and walleye. The only kind of fish I like to eat is sashimi
with some soy sauce, wasabe and an ice cold Asahi.... now your talking.

["G"]

I love to catch and eat bluegills...thats my favorite fish to eat. Crappie is next.

[azslabber]

I know they a hundred times better then green carp,lol.I like my crap cooked.

[TeamCSJE]

Whenever I have just a few hours to fish, I take my boys and neices and we head to the ponds close to the house and catch those little bluegill. I never thought of eating them because I figured they wouldn't have much meat so we just throw them back. The only ones we keep are the big bluegill that you can fillet. I am going to start keeping those smaller ones to give them a try.

I have a question kinda off the subject. The bluegill that we catch have yellow tips on their fins, neon blue lines around the head area and they have a big mouth where you can actually lip them. I call them bluegill but what are they really? Anyone know?

[tnvol]

The big mouth seems to describe a "red-eye" or a warmouth bass. You
can check pics on google to see which one fits your catch best! Both
are fine eating.

[cricket george]

Team- You are describing a green sunfish.

[TeamCSJE]

Thank you Cricket George. All I can say is those sunfish are beautiful and they can sure swallow a big bait. We have a blast catching them with the little kids.

[DrJohn]

Just finished filleting a mess of big gills from Douglas Lake, TN...yum, yum!

[crappieseeker]

Nothing better than a bream for eating. Actually it is the only fish I eat.