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That "lake taste" in freshwater fish
Skillet:
--- Quote from: Sandberm on June 26, 2025, 04:43:39 PM ---This thread has turned into a virtue signal to the extents some take to preserve their catch.
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A virtue signal? For giving the OP the advice on fish care that he asked for? I think I'm missing something. :dunno:
plugger:
Bluegill, crappie and perch always taste the same no matter the water temp or location. Walleye on the other hand can get an allege flavor to them. I won't eat a walleye from moses or potholes after early may until the following spring because of that. Banks lake and anything out of the Columbia are always good. I don't eat the channel cats i catch so can't speak for them.
Buckjunkie:
I am not a fan of trout unless they are high lake or come from a cold stream and I am still not crazy about them. They have to have bright orange or red meat. One exception are the triploids from around the net pens on Lake Roosevelt. They taste great!
luvmystang67:
We took a road trip through Mississippi. The drinking water EVERYWHERE tasted like swamp. Restaurants, homes, etc. Everyone was serving it, and everyone was drinking it. Even the soda fountain was tainted. Everyone looked like us as if we were crazy. You could smell your glass before you got it to your mouth. This wasn't an isolated area.
Point being, some people have different tastes, and the 20M people you speak of might find PNW water gross... I'm not sure. But I am convinced some people don't notice the same tastes that others do, based on what they were raised with.
I also generally cannot stand lake fish, but I keep trying them!
Reidus:
There's a mental aspect to taste. What you're brain thinks something will taste like affects what you perceive. Most people can't tell the difference between coke and Pepsi in a blind test.
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