Thread: Are Green Sunfish Good to Eat?

Originally Posted by limbhook

I think that fish is what we use to call a rock bass or goggle eye, little body big mouth very aggressive little fish.

The fish you are thinkin about here is a warmouth not a greenie.
The warmouth & redeye looks alot alike (even the red eyes).

But to answer the orignal question here.....there isnt a bad eatin panfish....they all are great eats.
Redears,pumpkinseeds,warmouths,greenies,gills,oran ge breasted sunfish,long ears,redeyes.....all are great.I like eatin all panfish except 2.Brown & green carps (small & large mouth bass).

just like mikey use to say,,,,,try it,,,,you'll like it!!

I wasn't down at the fishing hole today, but heard a fellow took his granddaughter down there fishing with nightcrawlers and caught some big greenies, but they turned them loose. One of them almost pulled the little girl's spincast outfit into the pond.

One day I caught so many of these big old bream on anything I threw out, Pop-Rs, spinnerbaits, jigs, everything. There's some big bass in here too, but these big dudes make it so easy-one of my friends started catching them on rubber bands he says. I hooked one in the throat and knew it wouldn't live, so I cut 2 fillets and thought maybe I'd catch a catfish on the bottom for a change. These greenies are cannablistic, and started eating cut bait made from their brothers. Not too many folks know of this body of water and it's amazing there's very few "true" bluegills in here. I imagine they are green sunfish and not Georgia Giants. They sure are fun.

My understanding is that Georgia Giants are a first generation cross between green sunfish and bluegills and that after that they react kind of like trying to replant the seeds from hybrid corn or tomatoes: they go back to something less than they started out with.

i thought the georgia giants were bluegill/redear cross? I dunno, just what i heard.
When i was a kid, i got to fish a pond that had those giant green sunfish in them, i dont remember them having a big mouth though, but then again, this has been many moons ago. Anyhow, that was one of the first wild caught fish i ever ate, been hooked ever since.

HB

No different than any of the others but man the small ones are a pain to clean.

Fatman

Originally Posted by Fatman

No different than any of the others but man the small ones are a pain to clean.

Fatman

I just scale 'em, gut 'em, cut the heads off, season with Everglades seasoning, dredge in cornmeal, and fry them up. Couldn't be better!

yes the panfish is great to eat scale him gut him cut the head off roll him in house of autry seafood breader and drop in crisco um um good eating