What is the best fish to eat? If I could pick any fish, I would eat red snapper. What fish would it be for you?

Crappie or Walleye.

Flounder all day.

Crappie is good but IMO can't compare to many salt water fish. I agree on the red snapper! I had fried Mahi Mahi once that was by far the best fried fish I've ever had. Flounder is good too. Sheephead gets overlooked. It can be grilled, blackened baked or fried and good regardless of how it's cooked.

for me, red snapper in the salt and walleye in fresh.

ahi

I think that's more of a texture thing than a taste thing.

I like all fish but I think walleye is the best

Red snapper.

I have tried to eat a lot of different fish, some with good success and other with far less tasting results. The younger me caught and cooked: Ladyfish, Hardheads, Bowfin and a few others. I thought about writing a cook book on how to not fix eatable fish and wish fish to avoid.
But the top 5 of the list are:
Salt water;
Snook
Yellow Tailed Snapper
Goliath Grouper (not Legal in the US)
Flounder
Mangrove Snapper

Fresh water:
Crappie
Walleye
Salmon
Sunfish ( got to be fillet able size, only spoon fish for the wife)
Snakehead

Sheephead is the poor mans lobster.

Wahoo....sushi style. Just incredible.

Fresh
Walleye
Crappie
Sunfish
Northern

Salt
Flounder
Lane Snapper
Yellowfin Tuna

Give me a good old deep fried channel cat.

I question the world I live on reading some of these answers I see.

Freshly caught tuna. A sashimi snack on the boat as you are going in. Then a steak of same tuna covered with sesame seeds and extremely rare.

There's nothing more filling than a poached mudcat with the skin on. A little of that will make you belch all day and night.

Well I thought everyone knew this is the best. I was just replying to 2nd best. 😁

Ahi for the win. Brush with sesame oil, sear all side. Serve rare. Outstanding!!!!!

I thought Monkfish was the poor man's lobster

it is.

Well it looks like crappie and walleye have a clear lead in freshwater. Saltwater is more diverse with dark meat and white meat options. Keep the responses coming. I am taking notes for future fishing options lol.

for saltwater, I'm pretty partial to Orange Roughy (actual name is slimehead).

Hard to beat walleye and crappie in freshwater fish.

Speckled Trout for saltwater and crappie for fresh.

I like Flounder the best among inshore fish and Red Snapper offshore.

Flatfish................

Red Snapper

I like blue cat and crappie.

Bass is good too. The small succulents are the best.

Large Mouth?

Freshwater:
Perch
Walleye
Crappie

Salt Water:
Blue fin

My opinion a Flathead especially the belly is the best freshwater. Walleye and bream or crappie are good. Snapper is my favorite salt. Years ago I went on a boat out of San DIego where we targeted barracuda. We also caught a lot of sculpin bottom fishing when sea lions wouldn't let us land the barracuda. I was surprised how good both were. I always wanted to try ling cod (another poor mans lobster) but never caught one.

I have eaten mostly fried fish and would have to go with fried flounder as my favorite. I used to sell orange roughy in my seafood/ meat market and it was really good as well. The list of fish I have also fried and like are catfish, striper and hybrids, black bass, tilapia, and crappie. I have also grilled fresh caught rainbow trout(really rich tasting), salmon, stripers and blackened catfish a few times. I cleaned a drum once after a guy said how good they were, but after sitting in my freezer for over a year because I could not make myself cook it , I threw it away.

Basa , Pangasius , Swai: This is another fish that I have fried a few times and thought it was ok, but it has gotten some brad press overtime and I decide to not eat anymore.

Yellow perch caught through the ice.

Freshwater: really any of the gamefish are good minus red meat. Sunfish would be at the top.

Saltwater: see above but #1 is a tie between flounder and speckled trout.

I made this post to troll LMB fisherman, but I guess they are not taking my bait. Maybe because they don't visit this forum because they don't eat fish?

Seems like none of you have eaten Pompano before. That's the only answer.

Salt:
1:wahoo
2 Yellowfin tuna
3 Red Snapper
4 Trippletail
5: Redfish

Fresh:
Crappie/walleye (don�t care which one)
Trout
White bass
Spots
Catfish

That�s my order for both.

To me if you season them up right before you put a good flavor batter on them they are all good

Freshwater...walleye, crappie, red ear
Saltwater......halibut, orange roughie, yellowfin.

Freshwater is walleye/sauger/saugeye

Pompano en Papillote

What SALLYSUE said 100 percent! I remember back in the 80�s me and my dad went surf fishing down at High Island and we caught a large ice chest full of 16 to 24� hardhead catfish. I had always been told that no one eats them, but we took them home and fillet and fried them up and they were delicious! Nobody complained about taste they just ate it up! But for saltwater it�s fried flounder and freshwater it�s rainbow trout cooked in butter in a cast iron skillet!

Ling Cod

Well, after eating it for the first time in my life a couple weeks ago, I have to say walleye.

Of the saltwater fish that I�ve tried, fried Halibut and fried flounder are near the top. Grilled swordfish was my favorite with smoked amber jack a very close second. Got some vacumn packed Red Snapper a friend just gave me a few days ago so that�ll be a first for me. Hope my wife loves it so she�ll encourage me to go catch some.

Freshwater would be Crappie, fried Bowfin and fried bream/sunfish.

Fried whole bream.

This has been a very interesting thread. Thanks to all for the input. I just got back from the Florida Keys and the fresh mangrove and mutton snapper were really good but I will still take red snapper anytime.

Also I find it very interesting that catfish is not mentioned often since they are one of the most fished for freshwater species. And I need to find a good source of walleye.

Wahoo is incredible on the grill.

My favourite is Crappie. Love the taste

Seriously, all kidding aside, LMB are really good when fried like crappie and bream. They're every bit as good as blue catfish. I almost always catch one or two when crappie fishing. They're an extra bonus.

#1. Crappie
#2. White Bass
#3. Rainbow Trout
#4. Bluegill
#5. Catfish. Channels,Blues,and Flat heads.

Actually, large mouth bass are delicious. I put them second to crappie and better than cat fish. All kidding aside.

Walleye hands down particularly when its cooked during a shore lunch in Northern Saskatchewan and the loons are doing their thing! Crappie would be next.

Crappie for freshwater. Black Tip Shark, Saltwater.

This. Both soaked in jalapeño sauce then fried. Pure goodness.