Which fish makes the best table fare?

Anchovies are excellent table fair IMO. Fresh grilled anchovies are taaaasty! Such a pleasant nutty flavor.

Anchovies are excellent table fair IMO. Fresh grilled anchovies are taaaasty! Such a pleasant nutty flavor.

+1. When I lived in Ocean Shore, they were a prime target. My salmon fishing buddies were like "isn't that enough bait?" Im like "bait? Are you kidding?"  They would just shake their heads. Too bad. I prefer anchovies over cohos....

Any of the fish mentioned with this stuff on it is pretty freaking good

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salt= Ling cod cheeks
Fresh= euchalon...when open.

when Smelt is not open I go with Sockeye... in like it better than even Spring Chinook.

Cooked fish
1. Black cod
2. Dorado
3. Salmon
4. Walleye
5. Black, Blue or China rockfish
6. Crappie
7. Trout

Sashimi
1. Yellow fin tuna
2. Yellow tail
3. White Sea bass
4. Salmon

Canned
1. Albacore
2. Yellowfin
3. Salmon
4. Yellowtail

Smoked
1. Trout
2. Salmon
3. Yellowtail

Absolute Favorite (A meal I would never turn down):
Ahi, Yellowtail, Swordfish, Albacore

Favorite (A meal that I would only turn down if I was stuffed):
Dorado, Halibut, Spring Chinook, Ocean Coho, Summer Steelhead

Almost Favorite (A meal I wouldn't want to miss):
Mackeral, Lingcod, Red Snapper (real red snapper)

This list could change at any moment but all of the fishies would still be on it somewhere.  I have such a hard time deciding....

-Mark-

I was warned to start a new topic but I just want to reply my favorite fis is fresh sockeye bellies on the fire with a Littel season salt if I owned a fancy restaurant I would find a way to have these on the menu some people use these for halibut bait

Salt water. Has to be lingcod and fresh dug butter clams.
Fresh water. Cold deep water crappie/perch  and crawfish

Fresh water:
Sturgeon
Walleye
Salmon
Crappie

Salt water:
Albacore
But
Ling
Cab
Pan seared Rock

Sashimi:
Ahi
Salmon

Other:
Fresh frog legs! 
Octopus
Clam
Crab

Fresh water:
Sturgeon
Walleye
Salmon
Crappie

Salt water:
Albacore
But
Ling
Cab
Pan seared Rock

Sashimi:
Ahi
Salmon

Other:
Fresh frog legs! 
Octopus
Clam
Crab

Sashimi You eat your bait? I guess you don't go hungry even if there not biting
For me salmon then ling then sea bass

Hey - caught a silver out of Puget Sound last season and clean/filet it.  Got on YouTube to learn how to make the sushi cuts and had it for dinner.  Tasted just like any sushi, but fresher.  In Japan the sushi prices are based not only by weight, but also by time it was caught in the ocean to the fish market and to the restaurant. The quicker, the fresher, the more it cost. The Shoreline Costco near where I live has fresh Ahi flown in from Hawaii and they make Poke out of it and sell it at 16.99 to 17.99 per pound. I will pick up 1/2 lb. during my lunch break and some seaweed (Nori) and eat it. 

I know you can't catch them here anymore but the cheek meat on yellow eye rockfish is absolutely delicious! I also enjoy lingcod, silvers, and Kokanees.

Crappie
Yellow Perch
Salmon
Kokanee
Ling
Halibut

All these guys messing with genetic modification should work on making a yellow perch as big as a salmon, then we will be onto something! 

Big yellow perch = Walleye. Wish they were found west of the Cascades.

Crappie
Yellow Perch
Salmon
Kokanee
Ling
Halibut

All these guys messing with genetic modification should work on making a yellow perch as big as a salmon, then we will be onto something! 

I have had walleye and yellow perch and there is a subtile but distinct difference.  Walleye are just a little bit more bland.  Of course my experience is only with the mercury laced (thanks Canada) Lake Roosevelt walleye in the summer time?