FTL poll

I was cruising between this website and FTL when I noticed a poll on the FTL site that read like this:

What would you try before trying fried Sheepshead?
Boiled Monkey Brains?
Fried Grasshoppers?
Raw Carp?
Motor Oil?
A Booger?
Anything under the sun EXCEPT that sheepie!

As I type this I can’t help but laugh at the last choice. A Booger. Who in their right mind put this as an option? I’ve seen it all now. I pray for the day that someone other than Stillakid2 and myself, admits to eating sheepshead on this website. They are a very good eating fish when cleaned properly. They are good smoked, pickled, broiled, and however else you care to prepare them. I know for a fact that there are people out there on this wesite that have eaten sheepies and will never admit to it. A Booger? I would rather eat Raw Carp marinated in Boiled Monkey Brains served with a side of Fried Grasshoppers than eat a booger. Lastly, I think the very last option should have been ‘I will eat that sheepshead and enjoy it.’
Sheepshead, the silver walleye of the Mighty Mississippi.

Hey Fleck, how about two choices,

Your own booger
Someone elses booger

Too Funny.

Actually Blue fleck,
I would eat a booger first… The taste of fish to my pallet evokes a harsh contraction starting in my bowels and screams upward to my pie hole and what ever I had prior for lunch is on display for all to see. I must admit that the choice of booger would have to be my own or similar results are sure to come.

I can not even eat fish sticks which are only partly fish. Sad I know.
As for sheepie, I have friends that always beg me for fillets. I do not take any fish for the table but these fish would quickly make up a meal and I don’t think that I alone could impact the population to any measurable level.
Jc

How ’bout NO boogers. Boogers bad. I’d eat a bass before I’d eat a booger. That ain’t saying much.

sheephead….
Just say NOOOOOOOO!…..
Friends dont let friends eat Sheephead……
Sheephead? Id rather fight than switch (to them!)…..
Id walk a mile to (avoid eating a sheephead!)…..

Boogers are good! yeah yeah!!
Shut up Bevis. he he he he
Sheepshead are very good if fixed properly as Blue Fleck stated. Although I am picky of the ones I keep to eat as for what body of water I got them from. I won’t keep if taken from a lake environment. River sheeps are the best. That doesn’t sound right does it?

I am only 37. That isn’t too awful old. It is old enough however to remember hard times as a kid. We ate carp, sucker, beaver, coon, trout, bass, walley, northern, Sheephead and more. I would eat any of these foods today. I will eat at least one meal of sheepies this summer. I prefer almost any other fish but I will eat some sheepie. It just has something to do with nature, hunting/gathering, and remembering who is really providing and how thankful I need to be.

I’m from a little town Canton Mo. It was at Lock and Dam #21 spent the first 18 years of my life there. My Dad Commercial fished and supplied catfish to most of the local restaurants ! Seems to me that I ate alot of fish in my younger days of all kinds. Mom seemed to make any fish taste good ! Mom could cook and can anything, Cat,carp,pike,white bass (sheepie),eel,possum, rabbit,squirrel, turtle, I had to eat what we could harvest !! I never went hungry ! In that time in that area, my family was forced to make due with what they had ! We were and still are a Happy famlily !

Richard (Smitty)

Keep a tight line !!!

Richard, that’s not too far south of me now. My father in-law still makes fish sausage and carp steak when he gets the fish to do it with. Have you ever had any of that? Carp steak is very popular in this neck of the woods and folks come a long distance for that sausage.

Man are you bringing back memories! Thanks for reminding me ! I will call Mom and see if she still has the recipe for fish sausage ? Since Dad has went to the Big river in the sky, Mom hasn’t had much reason to can, but I will bet she has all those recipes tucked away some where ! Carp Steak, Well I can’t remember but I’ll bet we did, because we didn’t let much go to waste if we could help it !!

Thanks for the memories !!

Richard (Smitty)

Keep a tight line !!!

You know, we’re venturing into areas that I have yet to go. Herb, if it’s not too much trouble, would you mind putting the recipe for each of those together for me? Might be a lot of writing so if you’d rather, I could pay for the copy machine and have you mail ’em to me. I don’t know if I’d like any of it but I’m always up for trying something new………………’cept boogers. I don’t think I’ll be digging up any recipes for those!

Hey Richard , I usually make it down to the Canton dam a few times a year chasing wallies or bass. At times we have done very well there. It was the first place we really knocked em with sonars. Nice fish right ,right on the current brake by the lock.

Oh come on now guys. I’ll bet everyone of you ate boogers at least once when you were little boogers.

It will take me a few days cause I’m heading for the PDC area friday. When I get back I’ll get all the recipe info gathered and post it on this thread.

The carp steak is simple enough. Just scive the fish leaving the skin on. In other words, take the scales off. Don’t try to scrape them off. Use a knife to get under them and slice, slice, slice them off. Then fillet the meat off the carcass. Then using your finger as a guide, score the fillet. Meaning-slice across the fillet from belly to back but do not cut through the skin. Make these cuts 1/8″ thickness or less. This is scoring. Scoring will help the Y bones disolve when you fry the fillet. Cut the fillet into 3 or 4 inch wide pieces, dredge in a breading and deep fry like any other fish. The female carp works best for this as there is less blood and dark meat on a female.