Fresh caught trout!

Ewwww. The tastiest fish is the one you never eat.

Northern pike. Very light fish taste.

Walleye

Rainbow trout is mild and kind of sweet & sturgeon is one Fugly fish but mild and meaty. ?

I just love fish or seafood

Channel catfish in a crusty beer batter beats all.

Brown or Rainbow Trout for me.. Eels are cool in season if you don't mind messy.

Perch (Perca fluviatilis) are delicious, especially when cooked over a fire with wild garlic right on the riverbank where it was caught, but it seems a shame to eat something so beautiful. I don't know if American perch are the same species, nor if they taste as good.

Catfish.

Walleye, followed by perch.

I don't fish, I'm a tree hugger, and even feel bad for the bait. LOL However, my whole family and every friend has fished, at one point or another. I live in Minnesota, land of 10,000 lakes, not counting ponds, rivers, streams, and swamps. I think it's more how you fix different kinds of fish that matters. Walleye is the Minnesota state fish and is popular. Bottom feeders aren't good, especially in polluted water. Around here, almost nobody would eat ANYTHING caught in the Mississippi River, it's not as bad as it was when I was young, but it's still pretty polluted. Carp and Sheepheads are considered junk fish and are even illegal to throw back, so the fishermen toss them up on the bank and leave them. Yuck, and inhumane. People eat the Walleyes, Northerns (Muskies), Bass, Trout, Sunfish (also called Bluegills and Sunnies), and Crappies, but you have to catch and clean a ton of sunfish, and even more crappies to get a meal. My grandma used to like Bullheads, but they have dangerous spines they can stab you with, so people tend to avoid them. Then I believe in the spring, on the rivers running into Lake Superior, there was the smelt run. Scads of little bitty fish swarmed downstream, and people showed up in carloads with nets to catch them. I never saw the sense, since they were so tiny. That peaked in the 60's and 70's, but it's not as popular since smelt populations seem to have declined. Like I say, it's mostly how you cook them, there's beer batter, cornmeal or breadcrumb crust, fried, sauteed, broiled, grilled, and baked. I usually bake my fish, since it's a bit more healthy than my family's typical frying methods. I really only buy farm raised catfish, or saltwater orange roughy. I don't skewer bait, rip hooks out of fishes mouths, kill, or clean fish, I stick with store bought. Like religion, everyone has their own beliefs, I just can't do those things.