Thread: White perch and yellow perch taste the same?

One of the members has it nailed. You can pour syrup on poop, but that doesn't make it pancakes. Yellow perch are syrup, white perch....

I've eaten thousands of white perch and they are really good, almost as good as yellow.

You have to brine the white perch fillets in in the fridge in a large bowl with some salt water and a few squirts of lemon juice.

After a few hours the water will get darker colored, the brine and citric acid dissolve some of the blood and oil out of the meat.

Rinse in a colander and vac pac/freeze, or cook fresh.

I've served white perch to hundreds of people and not a soul has complained of the taste.

I fish for white perch several times a month because they eat good.

But if you don't process them correctly then they won't be as tasty.

Originally Posted by no1son

No they don't taste the same, but white perch are edible especially if you remove the red meat (blood line). Yellow perch are about as good as white meat fish get. Right there with walleye, and cold water sunnies and crappies. But yellow perch don't get very big. White perch are much like their larger cousin the silver bass, perfectly edible but the yellow perch is still much better, especially winter through the ice, right along with ice sunnies and crappies.

Yellows don't get big? Really??

Yellow perch, as good as it gets, without any extra steps just to get to "edible".