We have a healthy family squabble about this. The Exotic One prefers Northern Pike, probably because she has caught the two biggest ones between us and probably remembers a certain shorelunch in the BWCA after one such conquest. Me? Give me channel cat. I also like LMB. But gills and crappies are excellent, too. My neighbors here in MN die for walleye, but like most everything else about their ice-encrusted culture, they're much too bland for me. I spice up my dust with a bunch of Tony Chachere's to give them life in the skillet! jgw