Dirtroad Johnson
Senior Member
Nic that's a fine a looking fish & sides that there is. Dang it looks good.
Perfection!
Dem' ain't perch.
Dem' are Crappie, not croppie either.
Looks good as usual Nic and I like the way you scored them
but I've never tried it that way. (except big saltwater fish)
You told me about that on some Jacks or something a while back
and just eat the bones and all.
Dem are perch, speckled perch. Crappies and croppies are what yankees call em. Us South Georgia and Florida Crackers call em the proper name.
Scoring those fish like that is just to make em cook even all the way through without cutting one side off. For jack and redhorse suckers you gash em. You cut the sides off, leave the skin on em, lay em skin side down, and with a real sharp knife, cut all the way down to barely touch the skin, move down 1/8th of an inch and do it again, all the way down the side. Then a little cayenne pepper, salt, roll em in cornmeal, and fry em in 325 degree grease till they float.
Nic I believe I seen you up in Saunders slough Friday crazy windy. I believe you were headed to the ramp. You talked to us for a sec we were in a gray Carolina skiff. I just put it together.