Thread: What is the best tasting fish caught from the pier

IMHO. Flounder

Pompano, spadefish, sheepshead, redfish...they're all good.

My last fish fry, I served Catfish, Sheepshead and Red... Friends thought the Sheeps were the tastiest.
My MiL loves Spanish & flounder... Served her some Spades with the meat pulled off the fish, she thought it was flounder.
Grilled or smoked King... yummy!

Pomps, Specks, Whiting, White trout, Cobes, Blues, Blacks... Man, sure some are better than others, but they're all good to great if seasoned and cooked well.

I finally cleaned and skewered a Hardtail, rubbed it with olive oil and garlic salt, roasted on the grill with the spades.
It was actually pretty decent... There had to be a reason the Sabiki Brigade sells them for $2.00 per # to the Asian markets.

Pompano is the best, but there are a whole bunch tied for second place---sheepshead, Spanish, speckled trout, cobia, spadefish, flounder, king cooked the right ways and anybody who doesn't like fresh bluefish just doesn't know how to cook them. I also hear that lookdowns taste like pompano, so they have to go on the list. There may be others that I don't know about, but I expect remora and jack crevalle are tied for #10.

In the pier poultry division, I hear that pelicans taste like chicken and herons taste like what the chicken left behind on the ground. Can't give a first hand report on either.

Pompano, by far. And Pelicans taste like my neighbors Peacocks. Or used to.

I may love to vacation there and like fishing the pier but I will have to say most of the fish I have eaten from is nasty. Redfish and snapper are ok, cobia and kings turns my stomach just thinking about it.

I know everyones tastes are different but if cobia turns your stomach your doing something wrong. Slough i will be more than willing to take any and all cobia you catch off your hands. Just call me and ill drive down and pick them up.

Originally Posted by sloughhunter

I may love to vacation there and like fishing the pier but I will have to say most of the fish I have eaten from is nasty. Redfish and snapper are ok, cobia and kings turns my stomach just thinking about it.

I doubt it's the fish, sounds like a preparation and cooking problem.

Saw a Guy leave kings and jacks laying on the deck for several hours a Few days ago. Said he planned to eat them. I can't imagine any fish tasting good after that sunshine marinade. I grew up eating bream and crappie. Moved on to walleye. Fish I've caught from the gulf have a different flavor. But taken care of and prepared correctly they are fine eating.

Originally Posted by PurpleNGold

I doubt it's the fish, sounds like a preparation and cooking problem.

I have only ate cobia once and it was prepared by a friend of mine from gulf shores. We caught it in morning from his boat and cooked it that night. Its the only food that I could not finish from my plate and I apologized and we had a good laugh. Im treating him to a white river trout fishing trip the end of july. He said he loved trout, I can eat trout but not crazy about it. I will stick to my crappie and catfish.