Ewest said, �My father-in-law loves white pearch (crappie) . . .
It sure was good to see the name �white perch.� I haven�t heard anyone use it since I grew up and left Vicksburg too many years ago. I must be the only one here who likes �crappie� better than bg�but not by much. No crappie in my pond, so I let my friends do the bass fishing and I go after bg. I scale and fillet (skin-on) every bg I take out of my pond. I saute� them in a little bit of olive oil with peppers and onion for breakfast most mornings, so I never have them in the freezer longer than 2 weeks. For that purpose, it works fine to freeze them (wet, but not covered in water) on a teflon cookie sheet and pop them into freezer bags as soon as they are stiff. I take out as many nice, flat fillets as I want for sauteing and put the rest back. They don�t have to be thawed before cooking, aren�t drowned in melt water, get good contact with the cooking surface, and don�t have time to get any freezer burn. Yum, Yum!
Lou 13.5 acres
