All the breams are afavourite of mine as I love all fish. I wouldn't be surprised you favour it above bass, I favour bream, squid, turbot, brill, dover sole, plaice, mackerel, red mullet, gurnard and about half a dozen others above bass. Most surprising of all is that my favourites were all beaten by a new entry a few weeks ago although it is a fresh water fish. For the those of you that go to the Loire Valley, try Sandre and beurre blanc. For those not in the know, Sandre is Zander and has the most unbelievable taste when simply pan fried and served were the beurre blanc sauce! It simply blew me away! :victory:

 

All the breams are afavourite of mine as I love all fish. I wouldn't be surprised you favour it above bass, I favour bream, squid, turbot, brill, dover sole, plaice, mackerel, red mullet, gurnard and about half a dozen others above bass. Most surprising of all is that my favourites were all beaten by a new entry a few weeks ago although it is a fresh water fish. For the those of you that go to the Loire Valley, try Sandre and beurre blanc. For those not in the know, Sandre is Zander and has the most unbelievable taste when simply pan fried and served were the beurre blanc sauce! It simply blew me away! :victory:

we brits seem to have an aversion to eating freshwater fish. i've had both pike and perch, and would recommend them highly, my mum reckons catfish is real tasty. love gilthead though, such a lovely buttery taste, in fact guess whats for tea, can't wait.

 

....... in fact guess whats for tea, can't wait.

Jammy sod! I wish I had one for supper!

 

I have some Halibut in the fridge I should be eating (tried it before, its average), but I can hear the pub calling, and I dont cook well at 1am.

I'd like to try more freshwater fish, have only sampled Trout (stockies rather than wild) and Pike. The problem is where to get it from down here.

 

I have some Halibut in the fridge I should be eating (tried it before, its average), but I can hear the pub calling, and I dont cook well at 1am.

I'd like to try more freshwater fish, have only sampled Trout (stockies rather than wild) and Pike. The problem is where to get it from down here.

to be honest i think if you eat any other freshwater fish other than trout and salmon (half fresh water i guess) its sacrilege in my eyes, ive caught a zander and many many pike and i wouldnt dare kill them, we already have enough poles doing that


and ive never tasted bream, its a delicacy i know but there are no bream around where i fish and the holidays i take down to devon ive only caught miniture undersize black bream

 

to be honest i think if you eat any other freshwater fish other than trout and salmon (half fresh water i guess) its sacrilege in my eyes, ive caught a zander and many many pike and i wouldnt dare kill them, we already have enough poles doing that

It is only sacrilege when the stocks are limited like here in the UK. In Europe/Scandinavia/USA etc freshwater fish is what they have most of so they are caught and eaten, no problem. The Poles and other immigrants are just doing what they are used to doing back home, they need educating about sustainability thats all. We are now farming freshwater fish in the UK - carp and baramundi.

 

Yeah, they ate the lot. There aren't any fish left in Poland, are there ?

hardly, i remember a fishing program presented by Matt Hayes and he was fishing a lake in poland and had one small fish all weekend or something. if that lake was in england it would have been crawling with carp and pike, roach, etc - it looked perfect to hold fish

 

there are now certain waterways were you must kill all zander caught. they are not a native species, and are decimating fish stocks along with cormarants. so if they gotta be killed, i for one, would be eating them. (not a cormarant, couldn't even begin to think how nasty that would taste.)

 

there are now certain waterways were you must kill all zander caught. they are not a native species, and are decimating fish stocks along with cormarants. so if they gotta be killed, i for one, would be eating them. (not a cormarant, couldn't even begin to think how nasty that would taste.)

There used to be a fair few round here that insisted you kill any jacks caught too-for the same reason. They were destroying the stocked fish.

 

A lot of eating fish in the uk are simply just chucked back if caught, alot of us brits turn our noses up at it, but y!!

Hook em and then cook em (if their a legal size!!!)

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