Who eats bluegill?

[Triton19x2]

Descale them cook them with the skin on best flavor

[Crestliner16]

Great eating! And a blast on ultra light gear. Go with 4# Berkeley XL,then go to 2# ! You'll be reaching for the net after you've lost a few. I don't believe in catching any fish on the beds.

[LTZ25]

Every body eats them around here !!!!!!! Just hard to find the big ones .

[bucky]

I like bluegill better than crappie mainly because of the texture. Crappie taste very good but they are soft and mushy to me and bluegill are more firm and the meat flakes better. I have cooked them every way and that is my experience. I had rather catch large bluegill than crappie also.

[ksubasser24]

I bluegill are my favorite fish next to yellow perch, walleye, and crappie.

[stosh]

i like them breaded and deep fryed then dip in horsehadish and ketchup with a cold beer

[headhigh]

I grew up on them! My grandparents would fill the freezer all summer long and then live off of them during the winter. If they weren't canning tomatoes, peaches and peppers during the summer they were bluegill fishing.

[Quillback]

We have some goo bluegill and a few redear in the local community lakes, I do a gill fishing trip once or twice every spring, fillet and fry them and man are they good. I'll take them over walleye and crappie.

[basscatlildave]

We eat em here.

[BarryFL]

Better than crappie but not as good as yellow perch. I never ate them growing up in Jersey but when I moved to SC. Everyone was eating them so I tried. Very good . I like to fillet mine most people here gut them and cut head off. And they even eat the tail🤮

Edisto Redbreast are the best.

[Roosterman]

We’ll catch several throughout the year while crappie fishing. If they’re big enough I filet them also. Can’t tell the difference. They’re as good as crappie.

[bassnpro1]

Bluegills are my favorite freshwater fish to eat. It is just hard finding them big enough to get a manageable filet and make it worth cleaning a batch of them. Better than crappie in every single way other than size.

[Mark J]

From Minnesota and can confirm we and I eat Bluegill...they are delicious!

[coolwhip]

Definitely better than crappie...about a tie between yellow perch and gills I think. They are both so good.

[VicLynn]

I like bluegill better than crappie mainly because of the texture. Crappie taste very good but they are soft and mushy to me and bluegill are more firm and the meat flakes better. I have cooked them every way and that is my experience. I had rather catch large bluegill than crappie also.

I agree with this. Cold water crappie the meat is more firm and flacky.

[GOTTA BIG SACK]

Love them as long as they are big enough to filet.

[RazorCat]

Descale them cook them with the skin on best flavor

Yes sir.

[Legend870]

I think the question should be , " Who Doesn't eat bluegill ? "

[local16]

It’s tough to find bluegill big enough to eat around here anymore. They are my favorite fresh water fish to eat..

[LTZ25]

Trick to good blue gils is when you get the 1/2 pounder to hit the cricket you got to lay down in driver seat and hand line him in or your life is over all the while screamer oh my god .