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[troutmuncher]

There seems to be plenty of sunfish,bluegill,pumpkinseed,crappie smallish fish .Can you bread and fry them like trout?I did fry a sunfish I caught with a fly at Mills but not very much meat on it,not bad though.I may try Deer lake in Burnaby but perhaps a lake like Whonnock may have meatier ones.

[Zach]

I fried a few up once, the meat was good, but it had alot of bones.

[drivel]

Crappie (along with bluegills) are among my favorite panfish.  The meat is delicate and sweet.  They're small though so you have to filet a bunch of them for a meal.  If you have the time and patience to remove the rib bones after you filet them, your dinner guests will be in heaven.
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[BwiBwi]

WOW, that would be too much work.  Just fried them up and eat the whole fish.

[drivel]

Did it once for 6 of us in a cabin in the Kawarthas.  Spent almost 2 hours in the fish cleaning hut.  We pulled our chairs up to the stove and ate the succulent morsels as they came piping hot out of the pan.  Add the prerequisite cooler full of ultra chilly ones and you've got yourself a full on crappie night in Canada!

[adriaticum]

I tried crappie down south in the Carolinas from a warm water lake.
It tasted just like the name: crappie.

[fish fishburn]

All those panfish, I would just target the crappie for eating. Unless there is yellow perch.

[Sam Salmon]

FYI-It's pronounced Croppie

[cutthroat22]

They are delicious.   Meat is sweet and tender, but not mushy.

[maxmagic]

i know a chinese way of cooking it... put only green onion with the fish and steam it above the boiling water..8-10mins depends on the size of the fish  when its done. add soy sauce and its ready to serve..

[Reeder]

Great fish to chow down on. Beer batter is the way I'd cook these guys or panko. If you are catching them they are pan fish so they are small but a good rule of thumb is throw them back if their bodies are not the size of your hand. Thats if you get them here in the 10 inch range. Never fished them in BC. saves alot of cursing during the cleaning part of it.