Can you make Walleyes taste better?

[HD]

[Reinhard]

That's a good video HD.  haven't done the line deal yet but i can see what the idea is with that.  The Eye's I keep are under 18 inches most of the time anyway and I really never thought about doing this.  But I will give it a try next time.  I think of that red line more on the larger fish.  Makes sense to me.  good luck.

[dew2]

 Eyes Are bland...No taste give me a nord, sunny, cat now they have taste.Even tho I catch eyes mainly on the home lake an keep an eat em NO FLAVOR!

[LPS]

Dew it is all about the butter and spices...     

[KEN W]

That's nothing new. My dad always cut the gills on walleyes before putting them on the stringer. I have been taking the bloodline out of walleyes for quite a few years. I do it on large bluegills and crappies also. I prefer to soak the fillets in fresh water overnight in the fridge. That really firms them up.Then onto a cookie sheet and into the freezer overnight. Next day vacuum seal them and put the date on. They keep much better than putting them into a zip lock freezer bag.

dew2......I agree 100% . Walleyes have no taste other than the breading you put on. I guess that's why everybody likes them. I'll take a bluegill, crappie, or northern any day over walleyes. They at least have some flavor besides the breading.

[HD]

I've taken it out on catfish, just never thought about it on walleyes. 

[Reinhard]

I remember when our family first came over to this country and went fishing with my dad.  We would go to Island lake near Duluth and fish off shore.  There we would catch walleyes, eater size.  We took them home and my dad would just gut them, scale them [that was a job], cut the head and fins off and fry them whole with butter in a cast iron pan.  Those where the best tasting walleye I have ever had.  Did the same thing with stream trout.  Then we learned to fillet them out.  I still love to fry whole stream trout in a cast iron pan with butter and salt and pepper.  I still love to fish Island Lake off shore at times.  Back in the day, we had a whole shoreline that we could fish.  Now it's all filled with cabins, but there are still plenty of spots.  If you ever looked at my site in the Vintage Arrowhead page you can see stringers of walleye's with some pike and bass mixed in.  My father-in-law [now deceased] told me that as a kid they also ate the walleyes that way.  Some of the bigger one's were cut up into steaks with the skin's on and grilled or fried.  good luck.