Fish Bones

I don't eat fish, it doesn't like me, but I can eat shell fish, which is backwards from most. But it was free food, and the boys and I spent untolded hours of fun and time together fishing the rivers, lakes, and offshore of the Gulf Coast.

@Corie Henson, just north of us are several large and small lakes the we would go to for fresh water fishing and skying. There is a fish called perch. Most just clean, flour, and fry them heads and all. But they have tons of small bones, so you don't see them in the grocery stores around here, and generally they are a small fish, maybe up to 9 inches if your lucky.

@Ike Willis , now frog gigging brings backs real funny memories for me. It's not as easy as it seems. My boys and I spent so much time cold, wet, an frogless before they actually learned the process of gigging without flipping our 12' flat bottom aluminum boat. Of course the fact that frogging is usually done in the dark with a flashlight just made it all the more fun. I still have that boat.

 

My dad and I never gigged frogs. We would slowly row our Jon boat along the shoreline, looking for bull frogs. When we found one, one of us would use a fly rod with a small panfish popper on the line, and dangle the lure in front of the frog. Frog would lunge at it and hook itself. That way, when we got home all our catch was still alive and fresh.

 

@Ina I. Wonder, the milkfish with thousands of bones measures about a foot or so that's why it needed deboning. There are small ones like 6 inches long and some say can be eaten without worrying about the bones, just fry them brown.

@Ike Willis, do you mean to say the bull frogs are edible? Pardon my ignorance, although I have eaten fried frog legs several times in the restaurant, I cannot distinguish a toad from a frog. There are lots of toads in our backyard and what we do is catch them with a basket and throw them out of the fence so they can live somewhere else. From what I know, those toads are poisonous so they are not edible. But when it rains, there are so many frogs in the nearby prairie that sometimes I think the neighbor is catching for their dinner.

 

We just went after what we call bull frogs. They can get quite large and we only kept the legs.

 

here's an idea of how big they can get.

 

I like lake and brook fish, but growing up on the east coast I favor ocean fin fish. My favorites are ocean perch, sea bass, cod, sole and halibut among many others. I have never fished in the ocean though, only a few lakes.

Shellfish is my ultimate favorite.