I'd put walleye and maybe even pike above gills as far as taste but they are all delicious.  Just plain old fried walleye>gills>pike but the bigger cuts you can get from a pike give you more options.

Trout and Salmon too but I often times don't really put those in the same category for whatever reason...

@shack357

They are different fish though.  I've had carp which is "ponty" in Hungarian which, as you know, look like this:



Bream in Hungarian is "keszeg" and looks like this:



They're both Cyprinids which have a similar appearance to each other, but they are distinct fish.

Here in the U.S., the word "bream", while many times referring to a specific fish, is often used in the sense of "panfish".  But the latter grouping of fish all have specific names (Sunfish, Crappie, etc).

This is just my observations.

@C-4

Are you the guy who is raising catfish ?

Cool. Pretty sure I'd eat it if it was on a plate in front of me. Always wanted to try carp too, never had the motivation to cut up a 10 pound fish just for a sample though.

I caught this Black Crappie in a little pond between Platte City and KCI (MCI) 41 years ago when I was 12.  I received a Missouri Master Angler award for it.

Caught at least 3 dozen of them on Christmas Day with the kids. Always a blast.

There's a little hole on the Brazos about 7 miles south of the Lake Whitney dam where in April to early May you don't even need bait. Drop a bare hook and catch perch on every.. Not even cast.. Drop a hook.

Fish fry EBT. It's retarded.

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Oh yeah!

I toss everything back, so for me it don't matter what I catch or fish for.

@Swampgrass

Yes.  I need to update that.  I didn't get them to breed this past season.

I've decided to keep them outdoors for the winter, against my better judgement.

They grew too much so there is no way I can keep all of them (20+) inside.  So they are in their 550 gallon tank with the water filtering through 250 gallons of expanded shale media and then into a sump tank that has the pump that sends the water back to the fish tank.  I can keep fish in the sump tank but don't have any there at the moment.

I put silvered bubble wrap type insulation around all of the tanks.  I also have tarps over the tops of them to help keep the cold air off them.  The 1" water return tubing has pipe foam insulation around them and then a layer of silvered bubble wrap insulation.  Only one of the return tubes is on.  The other one is identical in every way including a pump but is only there as back-up if the other tube/pump fails.  It was just easier designing it with two pumps and two water lines than trying to mess with it in freezing weather in the middle of February.  I can easily keep the tank 20 to 25F above ambient with an 800W electric heater.  It has a thermostat that controls it.  On really cold nights, I will drain out some water and add hot water from a tap in the house through a hose.  My plan is to keep the tank at ~ 50F until the middle of January.  I will continue to feed them until then and then from mid-January until end of February I will let the temperature drop to 40F and feed very little, if at all.  Then resume feeding, hoping that they don't lose much weight, which they shouldn't at that temperature since their metabolism will really slow down.

I have a separate 300 gallon stock tank that houses is single large male.  That would be the breeding tank if I can get a female to produce eggs.  In the last picture, you can see the male tank in the top right of the picture.  It's the 300 gallon one.

How Dare You! I get my fish from McDonald’s in the form of a Filet-O-Fish. I’m outraged!!

FPNI

I love bream, but I like shellcrackers better.

Dur, no tuna or grouper around here.

I throw 100% of the fish I catch back in so cleaning them isn't an issue either

Because it's a whole lot of fun horsing a 5 lb. bass into the boat with a cane pole.

Oh HELL yeah!

It's not fair to put the greatest tasting freshwater fish on the planet (walleye) in the same sentence as the other delicious fish you mentioned.

That looks like a shad.

Bream are yummy.  Sometimes your fishing for Bass and end up with bream without trying.

Maybe it's a Southern thing.

Maaaan... I thought this thread was going to be entirely different.

Because if we are going fishing for female Fox News hotties, I am in.

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This!  Catching little fish is just as fun as catching big fish.

Awesome, thanks for the update. In the spring I'll be looking forward to more pics.

I keep stocking our pond with grouper and tuna - it just doesn’t well.

Because hooking up 1 lb. bream on ultra-light tackle is a heck of a good time!
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Crappie fishing is some of the most fun I've ever had.

Because it's cheap, you can pretty much do it anywhere there's water, they fight like nothing else their size, and they're delicious.

I dont like eating fish, just catching them and you can catch massive numbers of them.  My best is 118 in an hour and a half.

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