[Errant]

They are good! I still remember the day my dad caught a 2-3/4 pounder that was 17" long when I was a kid. My favorite though, is pan fried bluegill large enough to fillet. I like most all fish, and there are tricks to making almost any tasty.

Water here in the south is too warm for northern fish, but we do have strippers in Toledo Bend caught close to 50 lbs. Not very good eating though, IMO.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We are fortunate to live in an excellent fishery at Lake of the Ozarks. Southwest of here, on the White River system, are four or five excellent fishing lakes probably even better than ours.

With the construction of Truman Reservoir above our lake, the water has improved 100 percent; no more blasts of silt and crud during heavy rains, although the Big Niangua River will carry some mud but this rarely reaches the confluence of the Osage where we are.

Wife and i visited NOLA a week after Mardi Gras this year and sampled some of your excellent oysters and other seafood. A reception at a downtown hotel featured a big ice table with about a quarter ton of raw oysters on the half shell, pure and sweet as could be. It had been a decade since I had any like these and they went down my gullet chased with some fine white vino.

I suggested to my wife that we visit NOLA for a week in the winter every year for as long as we could afford it.

Life is good !

[houeto]

we do have strippers in Toledo Bend

Hotdawg!!! Got any pics?