Texas Slam taste test

[KennyWayne]

My wife is not new to 'seafood' other than shrimp, lobster or salmon so I made sure to keep the Texas big 3 apart and made a taste test out of it. All species caught yesterday, prepared the same way in the classic french method of (seasoned flour/ eggwash/ breading) here are the results and I was surprised.

*Wife- 1st-Redfish, 2nd Trout, 3rd Flounder
* Son- 1st- Trout, 2nd Redfish, 3rd Flounder
*Me- 1st- Redfish, 2nd Trout, 3rd Flounder

Kind of surprising that we would like flounder least of all.

Has anyone else tried this ?
I woud like to include all the others- Tripletail, Croaker, Sheepshead, Black-drum, Smacks, etc. but I dont fish for them and don't usually catch them on tails.. still it would be a good, if not scientific test.

[coachlaw]

People that don't like fish much usually like flounder the most because it has the least taste of the 3. You can pretty much take a flounder and make it taste like whatever you want it to very easily. People give me heck, but I prefer to boil the meat in crab boil. Their delicate meat makes excellent mock crab meat for salads, etc.

Croaker to me is the very best of them all, followed by redfish and drum, which are very much the same as they are cousins, whiting would be my third choice with sheepies coming in a close 4th. You may have the trout and flounder. The smacks you should throw back. Mackerel meat is just oily, might as well eat hardhead or bluefish. Heck, I've eaten choupique and I think it was better than smack. I've only eaten triple tail once, and I've only caught 3 in my whole life, so it's hard for me to consider it anything but a rarity. It was very good though.

[Torque]

I started cooking fish on the cedar shakes. Trout really jumps up on the flavor scale. Probably the favorite in our household. Nothing fancy, a little butter.

[bubbas kenner]

I prefer trout red than flounder as well.I see more people fix flounder stuffed with shrimp and say there the best eating ,if you stuff a coot with shrimp it would be good eating.

[FlatoutFishin]

They all good!

[Milkjug]

Flounder is the chicken breast of the fish world. Very mild, not oily at all.

I'm with Flatout, they are all good. That's why they are the big 3!

Mackerel is fantastic. Excellent broiled fresh, and those oily fish have the highest amounts of the Omega3/6 fatty acids.

I caught a mess of croakers at sportsman's one winter and kept them. Won't be doing that again. Whiting is excellent though, and is the only saltwater pan fish I will keep and eat. Easy to clean and very nice meat.

[coachlaw]

You din't like the croaker Yan????? I find that amazing. Just goes to show ya, we're all different. Nothin' wrong with that, though I do now consider you to be insane.

[FlatoutFishin]

You din't like the croaker Yan????? I find that amazing. Just goes to show ya, we're all different. Nothin' wrong with that, though I do now consider you to be insane.

So says the Hooters wine cono-sewer!

[Jhua]

I keep rays and gafftops But really, rays and gafftops are good if ya know how to cook em.

[Mini-x Fan]

I love them all!

[trophytroutman]

if i was to have to put them order it would be.
1)trout
2)flounder
3)redfish

[corndog]

Man I dont now which one I like the best. I think I vary on how they are cooked. Trot fried, Redfish blackened and flonder broiled ala veracruz. Ofshore ish I love Mahi Mahi,Snapper and yellowfin tuna. Overall I think Mai Mahi is the best and is the probably the most renewable table fish there is!! Nom Nom Nom I'm hungry!!

[Moe]

if i was to have to put them order it would be.
1)trout
2)flounder
3)redfish

Ditto

[FlatoutFishin]

Ditto

Second what he said!

Yellowfin has now become my fave for offshore...like butter man, like butter! Don't know why I like it so much? Maybe because I got a chit pot full of it!