IMPO the only fresh water fish worth eating is a still wiggling kokanee Trout caught in the high Sierra lakes. I used to have a little 14' aluminum boat with a 15hp outboard. It trolled like a dream. Well I thought I was cleaver by packing the boat cushions with rain gear. It was a couple of seasons before we needed them. When opened they just disintegrated like cellophane
We were so fukin cold and wet like you were swimming in your clothes wet by the time we got the boat on the trailer. We had dry clothes at camp and a good fire in a pot belly stove in the tent cabin. A big swig of brandy. We had a few of those fresh fish dredged in flour,salt pepper then fried up in Wesson. another big swig of brandy. Might have been a line or two also. For sure another big swig of brandy. We knew the lake would be stormed out for the next day so another big swig of brandy cards and lies.