If I can catch it and fillet it I'll eat it. Almost everything save Carp and other "sucker" fish. They stink coming out of the water therefore I refuse to eat them.
Goggle Eye (aka Rock Bass) are my favorite. Very white and flakey fillets.

My mother-in-law and all her Bella Vista cronies used to drive up there to Shrimpman's for a treat. BV is like the graveyard for eateries (with the exception being Gusano's), so we'll see if it lasts up there. Retirees don't like to pay for their food.

Yeah, Bella Vista is very limited on restaurants. I've eaten at the Metfield clubhouse before and it's actually reasonably priced food and pretty damn good. Lots of blue hairs though, but hell it's Bella Vista. If you want a great greasy spoon hit up the Pineville Grill on the square there in Pineville. Great B & G. Perfect place to hit up for breakfast before a fishing trip.

My MiL lives on Loch Lomond. I wish the joint there at the Highlands would get a little better. That place could be so cool, but it just doesn't get enough traffic.

Losing the Blackboard (or was it Chalkboard?) Cafe was sad. That place was really good.

Holy crap, I never thought I'd see the day where Pineville, MO was mentioned in a thread. I have friends that live just a few miles from there, I didn't even know there was a restaurant anywhere in that town.

A good friend of mine owns a cabin on the river there. We've spent the last two winters renovating the place. It used to be his grandparents and we've been going there since we were in high school. It's home to a few of us. Always cold beer and we've got a fleet of canoes down there. We'll be there almost every weekend over the summer.

I loves me some catfish rolled in cornmeal and fried, lemon and hot sauce on the side. Hell yeah.

Not only do I eat catfish, I ain't scared to get it at the Jump Stop convient store outside of springfield missouri. Nothing like eating fried Kitty Fish while gassing up next to Willie the trucker

I bet Mohillbilly grabs 100 pound blue cat picks it up and gives it a ****ing back breaker.

On the Elk River? I've been on many canoe trips down that river back in the day. Did you ever go to the RC car race track off the H highway? I know the guy that owns that place, it was kind of big deal for a while back in the early 90s but he's since shut it down. He had a go kart track there for one year too as well.

Spectacular smallmouth fishing in that area. Of course, the aluminum and bikini hatch is a little insane on the Elk during the summer. The Big Sugar is where it's at.

I voted yes, but don't like it much unless it is done to perfection. Not a good grilled fish at all to me either. I avoid it overall, but sometimes you can't help it if people serve it.

Too true. Also the lower Elk, below Noel to Cowskin Camp is one serious float. Big water, big fish and in the spring you can get into White Bass there. Also some serious Channel Cat when the water's up a bit. Not many canoers either. I rarely fish from HWY 71 to Shady Beach on the weekends anymore. Big Sugar is good too. we usually do Mac's Big Rock down to my buddy's cabin. Which is right there at HWY 71.

Oh the Elk, always see the sign for the track but I've never been. Thought long and hard about it after a few 8 hour float trips though:BLVD:

If you throw cajun seasoning on it, you'll fall in love with any fish.