Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Help Does fish food make fish taste different .

sprkplug, I'm like you. I like to use as little "masking flavors" as possible. Maybe that's because I was raised eating the fish that I caught and my grandmother cooked.

1) They were fresh, not half dried out, sunken in eyed fish like you see in some markets.

2) She cooked them in hot oil after they were rolled in lightly salted/peppered flour. Usually they were panfish, scaled, beheaded and gutted. The crunchy tail was the best part.

When grandpa was alive, I remember him fishing for catfish in Fox Lake, using an elastic trot line and 1" squares of Ivory Soap. I really don't remember how he got the trot line in and out of the water, but I do remember him standing on shore, pulling in on it, like a VERY long rubber band. He died when I was 8 or 10.

My mom (her daughter) hates the smell of fish, and won't cook it unless it's fish sticks or something like that. If I wanted to eat fish, I had to go next door to get my fish fix.