Do you eat fish out of the Mississippi River? Yes or No …..why or why not?

I salute you, River Rat.

Pass the Hamms.

river rat randy wrote:

Now for the health side of it. I started eating these fish in the Late 1940s. Now for what they have said about how harm full it is to eat these fish, Well I should have been Dead 25yrs ago or at least Glowing in the dark.! LOL. . . rrr

Have you eaten any 3 eyed walleye? They don’t make you glow in the dark either.

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Mmmmmm. I’ll see your 3-eye and raise you a hump back sauger.

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I hope you didnt eat that humpback shockers! I heard those can pass the scoliosis gene

shockers wrote:

Mmmmmm. I’ll see your 3-eye and raise you a hump back sauger.

Once it’s in the bun…it’s a wild card game.

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Walleyestudent Andy Cox wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>river rat randy wrote:</div>
Now for the health side of it. I started eating these fish in the Late 1940s. Now for what they have said about how harm full it is to eat these fish, Well I should have been Dead 25yrs ago or at least Glowing in the dark.! LOL. . . rrr

Have you eaten any 3 eyed walleye? They don’t make you glow in the dark either.

.. Not sure but butt I must have eaten at least one or 2 without knowing it. . Cause last night about midnight I turned all the lights off in the house an took a good look in the dark.? Nope still not glowing even a little bit. . . rrr

river rat randy wrote:

lights off in the house an took a good look in the dark.? Nope still not glowing even a little bit. . . rrr

Lights off? Glow in the dark? They do have some stuff that, wait, nevermind….

Yes. I eat pool 2 crappies a few times a year.

Agree with Ryan. I’ll eat some pool 2 crappies once or twice a year.

They don’t taste like mud, but the texture of river fish is mushy compared to those from the lake. I’ve eaten a bunch from both and there is a major difference IMO from lake or river fish.

trumar wrote:

To those who say Walleye taste like mud from certain areas of the Mississippi river….

Why have you eaten mud in the first place ?

There ya go.

Then this came to me from an employee in a lab where MN supposedly does the sampling to determine how healthy our fish are:
There is a difference between how MN and WI process the fish to which warnings are added. Wisconsin fillets then, skins, bones and removes all visible fat from the fish they use to create a puree for testing. Minnesota adds the whole fish to a blender to create a puree for testing.
Now, how do you fix your fish to eat….Wi style or MN style?

Pig-hunter wrote:

They don’t taste like mud, but the texture of river fish is mushy compared to those from the lake. I’ve eaten a bunch from both and there is a major difference IMO from lake or river fish.

Even more interesting than muddy imo. Always thought river fish had a firmer texture which would make sense being they are way more fit swimming in current and all.

No issues with fish tasting different for me but all my river fish are north of Minneapolis and are hevily rinsed and frozen in a bag of water so they do have some soak time vs going straight to the pan.