Vic Smith wrote:
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:00:23 -0400, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
Heard this mentioned many times, but never did it.
Pretty good video.
Anybody here ever gig for flounder?
I like my fish crispy fried.
Flounder any good fried?

http://www.seastriker.com/video/fgvideo.wmv

--Vic

You're kidding, right? Flounder is one of the very best table fishes,
fried, baked, whatever. "Crispy," though, would be overdone for
flounder, in my opinion.

I have a friend in St. Augustine, FL, who gigs for flounder fairly
frequently inside Matanzas Inlet there. He's a giant guy, and looks like
Neptune with his three-tined fork. I tried it a couple of times, was
successful once.

I've only had flounder a few times. Always baked.
It is a mild fish, which I prefer.
Just never heard of fried flounder.
I don't care much for tricked out fish, like pompano baked with
almonds. My dad goes for that kind of thing.
By "crispy" I mean the breading, not the fish.

--Vic


I dip flounder in an eggwash, then coat it with Italian bread crumbs,
sprinkle on paprika and fry it in peanut oil. When I turn the fish, I
sprinkle in a few drops of hot sauce, just a couple of drops.

When I was a kid, I use to go fishing about three times a week in the
summer in Long Island Sound with the landlord of the cottage we rented,
and later bought. He was a retired printer. We'd fish for flounder and
porgies. He was a remarkable fisherman, and we always came home with
tons of fish. He'd clean them all, and give at least a pound of filets
to about everyone in the little neighborhood. Anyway, he and his wife
preferred baked fish, and if I was around, she'd invite me in for lunch
or dinner. Sometimes she'd stuff the flounder with a little crabmeat
from crabs I'd catch with bits of chicken neck. She was a great cook, as
were many of the women of her generation.

Life certainly was simpler - and a lot safer - in the good old days.