Seasoned with Cavenders and fried in lard! Fried the eggs as well. I highly recommend this!

Just out of curiosity why leave the head on it? Is there something to eat there? So you don't get lonely eating alone? My wife would make me throw away the pan if she ever let me cook anything with the head on it in the house in the first place. Sure does look good. I bet those fins taste awesome with the lard. Thanks for sharing

Bigger fish have meat in the cheeks. It�s flavor

I hope you at least scaled it.

I prefer the fillets. Nothing beats fried crappie!



Side Note: White Bass and Bluegill are also SUPER GOOD!

I dont know about that!

Don't forget the eyeballs! People fight over who gets to eat those in some countries.

and the testicles..

To each his own I guess........

Food always tastes better when it�s watching you eat it

Why didn�t you clean it or filet it? I�ve eaten whole small channel cats like that, with no head and skinned.

Go to any restaurant in Colorado and order a trout. 80% of the time, it will have its head still on, when they serve it.

when I went over to asia a few years ago-i saw whole fried fish quite abit. When I was a kid growing up in south Florida,( fishing everyday!), I encountered this same style of cooking down there and in the carribean. To each their own I guess.

As far as favorite ways to eat crappie, I won't take credit for it but it's definitely one of my all time favorite ways to eat crappie. Someone on here posted "crappie rancheros" a few months back -man that stuff is good ! We ate them this way for breakfast at the deer lease all through the season!

Scaled skin on fillets fried in corn meal.

He did clean it. It's scaled, gilled, and gutted. That's how the majority of fish are eaten in the world.