My favorite would probably be either smallie or any type of panfish. Never caught a walleye but I refuse to eat one till I catch it my self. I hear they are the best.

Hard to beat a Walleye in shore lunch coating over a fire in a fry pan.

Fresh fried fish is good, especially outside camping. Walleye makes me happiest.

I enjoy freshly cleaned fish, and it's really hard for me to tell which is which when I clean and eat multiple species. I really enjoy the pike, walleye and bass equally. My taste buds never have been too particular about enjoying good healthy food.

Early spring walleye are really good, but the past few years I've been finding it hard to beat the cold water taste of a laker later in the year!

I prefer the bass, panfish and pike over walleye. Can't wait to try a fresh laker.

Halibut steaks about in inch thick.

JB

quote Savage Voyageur: "Hard to beat a Walleye in shore lunch coating over a fire in a fry pan. "

Yup! ;-)

Walleyes taste like whatever they are cooked in. Great texture though. I like trout and salmon, but some folks don't.

I love fresh perch caught through the ice and fresh fried channel cat

They're all good!!!

quote BWVet: "I love fresh perch caught through the ice and fresh fried channel cat"

BWVet I love fresh channel cat to, one of my favorite too!!

In this order they are:

wild salmon
lake perch
pike
walleye

Northern Pike is best (IMO), followed by Walleye.
Either one filleted, coated with yellow mustard, rolled in a Bearden Farms/Panko combo, then fried in 375 degree oil. (can be a bit hotter, but no cooler)
If you bake a walleye or northern, you should be waterboarded, then sentenced to death!! :)

Pike,crappie,bluegill,smoked musky was real good. walleye is always a favorite to people..but that's average

quote Amok: "They're all good!!!"

Some just better than others. :)

Texas speckled (sea) trout taken wade fishing off the Galveston beaches in July...sorry guys, have yet to make a trip up north to taste your fine fish. Hoping they are as good as advertised when I finally do this summer :)

Brook Trout, Crappies, Walleye, In that order .

quote Savage Voyageur: "Hard to beat a Walleye in shore lunch coating over a fire in a fry pan. "

Ditto that, SV.

Perch are my favorite. Followed by crappie or sunfish. Then lake trout or walleye.

1-(Crappie,Perch, Walleye),2-Bluegill,3 rd are Pike, then smallies. I guess I'll eat about anything. :)

I prefer perch.

My dad prefers pike.

Neither of us like bass.

haven't had any of the big three yet, but that will change this year...
So since that's the case....

1.Yellowfin


2.Arctic char
3.Mahi Mahi

....What can I say, I live in New England, and the Atlantic is literally across the street. I love my chowda!

For around here: Coho, and Lake Trout cooked plain (without adding any ingredients or oil).

Rainbow Trout caught in clean water

Blackened swordfish. If talking the BWCA I would have to say walleye.

Depends upon the preparation:
-Deep fried - Pike
-Boiled - Whitefish
-Smoked - any fish - salmon are high on the list for me
-Pickled - Suckers/redhorse - though I'm told cisco is better
-Campfire roasted - brook trout
-Fish cakes/deep fried fish balls - Suckers/redhorse are best - pike is good
-Grilled on the half shell - Freshwater Drum
-Panfried - sunfish
-Baked... sorry I don't really like baked fish

Walleye are decent deep fried but generally overrated, in the BW I stick to SM Bass for the most part...

In my area: bass, bluegill, catfish (all from local farm pond)
In BW: nothing is better then fresh walleye on the open fire...

oops forgot tasty channel catfish - though Drum and channel cats aren't BW fish

Baked lake trout with cajun spices is my favorite, but then again, any fish from canoe country is great after a good day of paddling.

Northern Pike is a very delicious fish to eat. It's easier to clean than most think. I learned by watching vids on YouTube.

Boy, I like eating fish and seeing all of these posts makes me realize that the biggest factor for me isn't species, it is being FRESH.
Boppa

quote Boppa: "Boy, I like eating fish and seeing all of these posts makes me realize that the biggest factor for me isn't species, it is being FRESH.
Boppa"

I agree, I can't remember the last time a ate fish that frozen! So much better when it's still twitching.

Maybe because I've had them so few times, but Lake trout with just a Tony Cachere's Cajun spice (I use that stuff on EVERYTHING but desserts)!
Close second would be fresh walleye filets from up there. TW

pike
perch
walleye
trout

order of preference varies as to what is available fresh and then pan fried

smoked salmon has a special place on my taste preference, but I get to eat it so seldom

quote Boppa: "Boy, I like eating fish and seeing all of these posts makes me realize that the biggest factor for me isn't species, it is being FRESH.
Boppa"

Fresh isn't as important a factor in cooking fish as HOT OIL is. When cooking them at home, use a turkey cooker and fry them outside instead of a frying pan on your stove. The oil never gets hot enough when cooking inside.

1) You really can't beat halibut.
2) medium rare, cedar plank steamed salmon is excellent.
3) rare Ahi Tuna
4) fried walleye.

Smelt. The only thing I miss about the 60s and 70s.

Bluegills and Perch
grilled Salmon
trout
Walleye
Pike

1. Yellow perch
2. Walleye
3. Crappie/bluegill
4. Smallmouth bass
5. Northern pike (fresh only)

Unfortunately, here in southeast Nebraska, I have to settle for crappie and bluegills and occasionally some walleye. But when I travel north to fish, I really enjoy meals of the other fish.

I was turned on to yellow perch as an appetizer last month while preparing a fresh catch of perch, bluegill and crappie from northwest Iowa's West Okoboji Lake. Here you go...

Boil some perch fillets in a shrimp or lobster boil mix (or Creole seasoning of some kind). Chill and serve with cocktail sauce and an ice cold crafted wheat beer. Absolutely delicious.

I tried again a couple weeks later with bluegills. Not quite as good, but still rather tasty. I recommend cutting your fillets into bite-sized pieces that can be stuck with a toothpick and dipped into the sauce.

lake trout, grilled. yum!

Walleye breaded with saltine crackers and fried in hot peanut oil. Damn I'm hungry.

Variety is the spice of life. That being said, I would rather eat a walleye, bass, or pike than a catfish. I would rather eat a salmon than what you guys in Minnesota refer to as a "stream trout." I would rather eat a stream trout from very cold water than one from warmer water. I would rather eat a fish I caught myself than one someone else caught.

No one likes Pout? Being a Minnesotan; I like Perch, Walleye and Crappies the best. For non-BWCA fish; Yellowfin Tuna, Halibut, Swordfish, Mahi. Won't eat "farmed" fish of any kind.

Walleye
Trout
Zander ( because it tastes like Walleye )

I like both walleye and bass. I like pike if I can get the bones out. I haven't had a laker yet, but I really want to try one.

Down here we have a catfish called a yellow cat or spotted cat, and about 12 other names. It's not the "flathead" catfish. When they're under 25 pounds or so they're a golden color, but when they get older they almost look "tie-dyed" and they lose the yellow color. Anyway, they're very localized and they're more of a predator than most catfish, you'll almost never catch one on anything but live bait. That's probably my favorite

.....but having said all this, most of us will agree that anything eaten in camp is better than anything eaten anywhere else......;-)

quote maxxbhp: ".....but having said all this, most of us will agree that anything eaten in camp is better than anything eaten anywhere else......;-)"

I concur...

Redfin Pike. A small pike in South Georgia. Looks like a small Northern Pike except for a red fin on top. A large one is only 12 to 15 inches long. They are in small rivers and streams. It takes many to make a meal for several people. We gut them, cut off the head and fry the rest and eat the bones. Very good sweet meat. In the North we like SM Bass as well as Walleye. Pike are are also good. Lake trout not as good.

walleye or crappie,it is a toss up as far as I am concerened