Best eating fish: Bream (including Bluegill and Shellcrackers) or Specks?

**JET4** · 03-13-2006, 12:36 PM

Another vote for Bluegill.

**FisherMike** · 03-13-2006, 02:32 PM

Blugill if thats all I have. Crappie if thats all I have.
I have learned though, don't eat a gill and then a speck. Kind of ruins a meal.

**Blue Duck** · 03-14-2006, 12:44 PM

I like Crappie ....

**gabowman** · 03-14-2006, 08:39 PM

Since I only fish for bream during the spawn I love 'em. We will cook up 3 or 4 messes a year and they are great. Course we eat crappie much much more and they are hard to beat too. But then again, I never caught bream big enough to fillet either.....just a good hand sized bream is what I catch and keep till I get a limit.

**Rattler** · 03-15-2006, 09:19 AM

I've never eaten a bluegill that was't filleyed. How else can you eat them?

**Crazyhorse420** · 03-15-2006, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by Rattler

I've never eaten a bluegill that was't filleyed. How else can you eat them?

I fillet the bigger ones, but I just scale, cut off the head and gut the smaller ones. Fry them a litle longer than you would a fillet. You can even eat the fins if you get them just right..........crispy and delicious.

**Illinoisgiller** · 03-15-2006, 04:47 PM

Bluegill hands down. I eat gill fillets at least once a week year round and twice when I can convince the wife I need an extra fix. :D I like the crappie too , just prefer gills when there is a choice. Mike

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