Boy I don't know about the frozen is as good as fresh. I've never had a blind taste test but I just ate some frozen LMB that I caught two weeks ago. I also freeze them in ziplocs with water enough to cover the fish. I had eaten half of these fish fresh the day caught and froze the rest and ate them 2 weeks later. I didn't like the frozen ones as well. Now I also must say that these fish were caught wild and one thing they require here in Minnesota is that when you transport fish from the lake to home they have to be dead and they have to have the skin left on. So the fish were fileted but the skin was left on. That may have affected the taste. As far as crappie or bluegill, I can't make up my mind, they are different but I love to eat both. I could live on fish meat.
