Can you eat SQUAWFISH??

[Rollin with Rolland]

I LOVE "getting rid" of these fish, and I was just thinking.......

I'm sure the Eagles love them, and the crayfish too, but has anyone tried to eat them?? I still have my smoker set up. Or are they better canine food??

[ChrisB]

There is a health advisory for them on Lake washington, and probably everywhere. Not a good idea, but I have seen 'some' people take them home from the lake. Kind of like eating a carp, why would you ;) :compress:

[TroutCowboy]

I would bet they taste a little on the muddy side. Like a mushy summer trout you just pulled from a hot, shallow lake. Maybe not, but that's probably reason enough to keep me from trying them anytime soon.

The closest I would probably come to eating them is as fertilizer in my wife's garden (and that's only if I could figure out a way to keep my labs from digging them up and rolling on them). But considering their bottom-feeding nature and all the heavy metals, etc. maybe that isn't such a great idea either.

[big fish lite line]

I tried a bite of one my freind cought at lake samish
they taste like a mushy trout and they have a lot of bones
I would not recommend it

[racfish]

You can eat almost all seafood salt and fresh alike.Not all is tastey.I never tried Squawfish but then I never tried whale blubber either.Hehehe.It might be smokable.I see guys smoking some awfully dark boots (dark salmon) that I wouldnt even take off the bank.I guess to each his own.I figure if its hella tastey someone wouldve cashed in on it by now.

[BassFanatic]

seems like they would be terrible but that 's just my opinion

[Rollin with Rolland]

Sounds like I just better leave them for the crayfish......

[bassendave]

i have eating them they taste like carp and catfish nice white meat with a lot of bones

[Rollin with Rolland]

Was that from a river or lake bassendave?? Were they hard to fillet??

[Chin_nook]

I've taken them out of rivers and cooked them up. They do taste like catfish. Filleting and skinning them is just like a trout except that these squaws have allot of very thin bones.

Rollin, just try them once because everyones pallets are different.

[Lotech Joe]

I've eaten some pretty bizarre food before; escargot, raw oysters and even some venison "Rocky Mountain Oysters" cooked of course. But I just can't abide the thought of the ever present "Northern Pike Minnow." I haven't tried rattlesnake yet, but I'd like to.