Popular Tasty Recipes
December 23, 2012
How to Clean Sheepshead
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Learning how to clean sheepshead – a tasty local resident fish that is ignored (or at least not popularly targeted) by the men and women fishing our waters – is the first step in eating them. In some parts of the country – Louisiana, for example – they're not exactly considered trash fish, but they do not find their way to the fisher's table. Here in Florida, those of us that know the crab-like texture and taste of these… Read More
March 20, 2010
How to Clean a Fish
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A lot of people ask us about the best way to clean fish, and our normal response is to ask them what they intend to do with them. Depending on your intended recipe, there are three primary ways to clean a fish. First, it's a good idea to think about what a fish looks like inside. You don't have to turn into a Doctor Bob or anything -- a degree in fish biology isn't required to cut wonderful, perfect-every-time fillets.… Read More
April 09, 2012
Blackened Snakehead Fish Recipe
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Here are ingredients for our blackened snakehead recipe: 1 1/2 Teaspoon paprika 1 Tablespoon onion powder 3/4 Tablespoon granulated garlic 1 Tablespoon dried thyme 1 Tablespoon black pepper 1 Teaspoon cayenne pepper 1 Teaspoon 1 tsp dried basil 1 Teaspoon dried oregano 1 Teaspoon kosher salt 1 snakehead filet, skinned 1 pineapple, diced 1 can cream of coconut (find it in the cocktail aisle) ½ bunch cilantro, chopped 1… Read More
September 16, 2011
Sheepshead Recipe
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This excellent sheepshead recipe was actually part of an article our friend and Southwest Florida Editor Captain Gary Anderson had written about using sand fleas to catch these tasty targets. This recipe is simple, and makes use of two things that are always good when cooked together in any way: butter and clean white fillets. So have at it, and be sure to let Anderson know if you hated it. We doubt he'll be getting a… Read More
January 07, 2012
Flounder in Pecan Butter Recipe-Cracker Food!
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When the fall and winter cools down the air and water, two things arrive. First, the spawn is on for big flounder, and a species that ten years ago was relatively rare begin showing up on sandy flats and the edges of grassy flats where channels cause sandy bottoms. Secondly, it's tomato season in Florida – and this wonderful tasty recipe for Pecan Butter, and Fried Flounder to put it on -- uses the same flour wash to… Read More
September 12, 2010
Brown Sugar Redfish...
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Brown Sugar Redfish September is redfish time, and the other day I spent some (time, that is) on the phone with my friend Gary talking about redfish. I told him a couple of tips you folks might find useful when you're attempting to put a client (or yourself) "in the grocery store" when you find yourself in the big schools of breeders you see in September. When I was younger, I thought it was just lucky if you can find… Read More
October 11, 2010
Killer Crab Cakes
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Like all of Captain Scott Moore's recipes, this one is simple and very easy to put together. And like every recipe we've ever gotten from him, just outstanding in its down-home "cracker-style" approach to the food God provides us in our incredible environment. This one is really cracker food, since it takes advantage of something most people will find in their closet -- albeit eighteen years old in some cases. It happens… Read More
October 14, 2010
Fried Stuffed Hard Crabs
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From the Publisher: Andy made sure I said that his came from the Eastern Shore of MD/Va. With that said, this was originally written by our friend and totally cool forum resource, AndyS. Having a fishing site is a very cool thing. Some of us have run commercial web sites since Al Gore was kind enough to invent the Internet (he had time; the Earth was still cooling back then, and he weighed about 100lbs less). Having a… Read More
September 28, 2011
Basic Bakes
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Scott's "Cracker Food" is quickly becoming a favorite among our readership. What started out as a friendship between Mel Berman, myself, and Scott has developed into a rich combination of articles, phone calls that I don't want to finish, and recipes like this one. Where Lefty Kreh and Mark Sosin have become TV celebrities and are -- certainly -- great resources to our wonderful sport, Captain Scott is special to us in… Read More
August 13, 2010
Shrimp on the Grill
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This is really about grilling anything, not only shrimp, since it affects your grill, and it's likely you put chicken, meat, and fish on it during the course of a month. If you're anything like me, at least half the food you eat is made on a grill. Read More
November 04, 2010
Simply Cooked
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This stuff is great spooned over every type of plainly cooked fish I have tried. Read More
July 21, 2010
Fried Trout
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When I edited this the first time Scott pointed out that I had failed to say that he uses regular Heinz Yellow Mustard. The dried powder is an option, not his first choice. To most of our region's fishing community, Captain Scott Moore is a legend in his own right. Often thought-of as the guy who taught the world how to use whitebait to chum snook, he told us in an interview that it was actually an old and passed friend… Read More
